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Broadcast & the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age

Broadcast and The Focus Group

Broadcast & the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age

Collaborative mini album by the Birmingham 60s-influenced electronic outfit Broadcast and The Focus Group (Ghost Box label boss Julian House)

ADM rating[?]

7.7

Label
Warp
UK Release date
26/10/2009
  1. 10.0 |   Uncut

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  2. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    Perhaps the most impressive quality of this long-distance collaboration, edited together by both parties in a weekend, is the singular voice that emerges: Broadcast’s rich, personable presence is lent real bite by House’s relentless shifts in pace and perspective
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  3. 8.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    If there’s anything scary about this at all, it’s the ease with which they’ve made the corpse of pop songcraft climb from its grave and walk anew
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  4. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Whereas the typical sampledelic work betrays a sense of knowing ... Witch Cults relishes in the unknown. It searches out mysteries and unanswered phenomena through sonic investigation
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  5. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Broadcast and House have fashioned an artefact that could work ... magic on future generations of wide-eyed sonic archaeologists
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  6. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    Witch Cults is like the sound of Broadcast and the Focus Group trying to cast their spells at the same time: Some of the record is great, plenty of it is cross-chatter.
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  7. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    ...disquieting psychedelic black masses and electronic storms are evoked in this intriguing blend of unsettling musique concrete and skewed Moog-stacked pop. Make sure you leave the lights on
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  8. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    An extraordinary album, if not one to necessarily file alongside Broadcast’s usual meanderings through sci-fi retro. It’s far too dissonant and spooked for that
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