There have been a lot of posts like this along the way, and probably even some PMs back and forth between some of you, but what are some of you favorite albums and bands that fit in this universe? I saw a thread in another board awhile back that covered a lot of ground, and had many great suggestions, so have been meaning to link it someplace, and here it is, covers most of the bands I know about ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Broadcast, retrofuturist pop & hauntological pop; megaguide. - OffsetGuitars.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Broadcast, retrofuturist pop & hauntological pop; megaguide. Post by shadowplay » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:15 am Back in the Vanishing Twin thread I mentioned that I might do a thread on bands influenced by Broadcast, cadres and bands with a complementary aesthetic, received some encouragement and so here goes. Beyond this I'm going to do some further listening sections on relevant influences, record labels and a short list of more library influenced acts for people to check out. Some acts have bandcamps, so you can listen to whole records but some posts will be just a few youtubes but hand on heart everything here would be a good blind buy anyway. The name link is to the discogs page and they are in no particular order. Hong Kong In The 60s Make the most exquisite retrofuturist pop as evidenced by gorgeous tracks like A Foxes Wedding with it's heart piercing organ. A gem. Hong Kong In The 60s - Willow Pattern Songs Hong Kong In The 60s - My Fantoms The Advisory Circle with Hong Kong In The 60s - Seasons Change Even full on meanies can enjoy them since there's a free instrumental album to download. Plone. I think For Beginner Piano is something of a minor masterpiece and important influence and signifier. Contained live Broadcast members and later became Seeland Plone - For Beginner Piano PPlone - Unreleased Second album. I wish someone would press this up. Mitland Och Leo Really beautiful sounding gauzy and romantic interludes from Antwerp. Mittland och Leo - Optimists Pram Were around before Broadcast and also from Birmingham and did a lot of establish the aesthetic but were also more Messthetic in nature and often rode on a cloaked dub undercarriage. Live Pram were brilliant with a real children's music workshop feel and a floor quirky instruments and percussion. IMO Rosie Cuckson has a compelling and unique voice and if you don't won all their records, remedy that pronto. Pram - Sleepy Sweet Pram - The Empty Quarter Pram - Track of The Cat Pram - Beluga Pram - The Owl Service Pram - Play of the Waves Movietone Contained members of Flying Saucer Attack and Crescent. Movietone - Day and Night (Full Album) Seeland Tim Felton and Billy Bainbridge, were in this band and later on Tim was one half of Hintermass Seeland - Wander Seeland - Call The Incredible Seeland - Black Dot, White Spider Turn On Stereolab spin off Turn On - s/t Le Superhomard Transforms a rainy drive to the supermarket in your Toyota into a sun-dappled sweep down the Corniche in your Giulietta Spider. Le Superhomard - Maple Key Virginia Wing Virginia Wing - World Contact Virginia wing - Donna's Gift A little like Still Corners, they've slightly moved away from the early template and into more electronic forms but they still retain some of the feel on their new album Virginia Wing - Forward Constant Motion (whole album) Cavern of Anti-Matter Tim Gane's post Stereolab band Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Blood-Drums Cavern of Anti Matter - I’m the Unknown Death and Vanilla Swedish band that some find a little too close to their influences but one who I really enjoy. Death and Vanilla - To Where the Wild Things Are Death And Vanilla - Death & Vanilla Black Channels - think a queasy mix of Broadcast and BOC Black Channels - Oracles Black Channels - Two Knocks For Yes S. McLoughlin/ A Cooper Natural Lancashire / Supernatural Lancashire Alison Cooper of the wonderful Magpahi and Sam McLoughlin who trades as N Racker among others. Supernatural Lancashire Volume Two (split with the amazing Emerald Web) S. Mcloughlin / A. Cooper - Supernatural Lancashire - The Astronomy Centre S. McLoughlin and A. Cooper - Snowfall Happy Meals Keeping the home fires burning are Happy Meals, who originally made deliciously, lo-fi slow-motion kosmische disko but are recently spreading their wings over stranger waters. Happy Meals - Apéro Happy Meals - Fruit Juice EP Happy Meals - Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony (Volumes IV - VI) Lake Ruth Stylistically sitting under a parasol with Jacco Gardner style baroque Hofner bass psyche, finger poppin' retrofuturist Yé-yé and a few selections from your collection of Library breaks . I could totally see Lake ruth helming the soundtrack for Love Witch 2. Lake Ruth - The Inconsolable Jean-Claude seven inch Lake Ruth - Actual Entity album Gulp Moonlighting Super Furry Animal and his Mrs, make a lovely form of gently Radiophonic pop, which flirts with gentle nods to the more whistful Lee and Nancy and homegrown early 60's studio pop. Gulp - Season Sun Gulp - Search For Your Love single on Tim Burgess O Genesis Jane Weaver One of those artists that deserves their own thread and indeed they have one. Her last three albums are the most relevant to our interests in here and all of them are superb. As comfortable with epic prog folk concept albums, as she is with stroboscopic space disko, as she is with space motorbikin' kosmische,as she is with a basement Morricone score to a Vampire flick. Jane is the real deal and she's got a rolodex of collaborators to die for; Malcom Mooney, Damon Gough. David Holmes, Dave Brock, Wendy Flower of Wendy & Bonnie, Susan Christie! Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe (Full Album) Jane Weaver- The Fallen By Watch Bird Jane Weaver - Le Rose De Fer track 9 one (it's a split) Still Corners The album most relevant to this thread is Creatures of an Hour and tracks like I Wrote in Blood, The White Season and Demons would do excellent service in a creepy pastoral drama like a modern Robin Redbreast. The subsequent records are great but Strange Pleasures is jetting off into gauzy dream pop and Dead Blue specialises in the sort of neon slow dance 80's synth balladry that should be playing over the end of teenage dramas but sadly seldom does. Still Corners - Creatures Of An Hour [FULL ALBUM STREAM] Still Corners - Strange Pleasures [FULL ALBUM STREAM] Still Corners – Dead Blue Faten Kanaan In some ways she stands outside all this, she's a different sort of retrofuturist, coming on like a powdered wig fugue queen for futurist drawing rooms. A major find for me. Faten Kanaan - The Botanist & The Archaeologist Pye Corner Audio/Faten Kanaan - The Darkest Wave I''m calling it already...seven inch of the year! Gwenno Former Pipette's vehicle for Welsh language 'blissful kraut pop' Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf The New Lines Semi novel in here since they are male fronted. They first got caught up in my long lines when I bought their split with Still corners (SC track is a belter)and the Please Fall In Love single at roughly the same time. Please Fall In Love reminded me of NMBP era Broadcast but they've recent been pedalling a rather charming line in baroque psychefolk. The New Lines - Please Fall In Love (7") The New Lines - Love and Cannibalism The New Lines – Fall In Line The Soundcarriers Started off as a quite orthodox and still excellent blend of 60's pop classicism, library psyche and MBP but as time has passed they found more of their own ground to stalk. The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia There's a sister record which introduces a lot of this records themes on the most wonderful The Great Pop Supplement Label (later trading as Deep Distance and Polytechnic Youth two of the best labels there is), called The Other World Of The Soundcarriers. The Soundcarriers - Celeste The Soundcarriers - Harmonium Roj For Broadcast and current Children of Alice member Roj Stevens. A true Radiophonic, library spindizzy. Roj – The Transactional Dharma Of RojFULL ALBUM Beautify Junkyards Exquisite Portuguese hauntologial folk band, with an absolutely picture perfect sound, honed through their first album of well chosen covers and perfected in The Beast Shouted Love, which is an amazing record. Beautify Junkyards - The Beast Shouted Love Beautify Junkyards - s/t debut cover album. The Pattern Forms Mini supergroup comprising must hear musical doyen Jon Brooks (The Advisory Circle, The King of Woolworths, Hintermass, Clesse, D. D. Denham, Georges Vert etc.) and Friendly Fires. The record flies ts between bombastic 80's synth pop, delicate library bucolia and smeared up BOC style super 8 flicker. The Pattern Forms - Peel Away the Ivy Hintermass Another supergroup of Jon Brooks and a stray Seeland. Hintermass pedal beautiful clockwork folk, that reaches maximum heart string plucking on Pattern's Somewhere. This record had a peculiar effect on me, since it was dishearteningly close to the sort of thing I was attempting myself with less success. Hintermass - The Apple Tree The Dandelion Set(& Alan Moore) The album is an incredible mix of pastoral psyche, dread infused spoken word and lurid Canterbury prog jazz. The Dandelion Set & Alan Moore - A Thousand Strands 1975-2015 Jacco Gardner Dutch baroque psyche pop with that unmistakable Hofner thump. Less deconstruction than most of the bands in this thread but very much worth hearing. Jacco Gardner - Hypnophobia Jacco Gardner - Cabinet of Curiosities Revbjelde Brilliant band with a kaleidoscopi sense of genre, one minute they are dancing your round the maypole, the next they're pulling the stops out on an acid jazz groove, indulging in cut and splice or firing up the zither for some medititative spangling. Revbjelde - Revbjelde Paul Isherwood & Wayne Burrows Stray Soundcarrier and writer collaborate on a brilliant record which builds a Wickerman to the hithertoo undocumented British Polynesian folk culture. Paul Isherwood & Wayne Burrows - Exotica Suite The Memory Band Evocative, hauntological folk band, giving new shape to traditionals and recontextualising folk heritage. The Memory Band - A Fair Field The Memory Band with Belbury Poly and Grantby - Further Navigations EP The Memory Band - On The Chalk (Our Navigation Of The Line of The Downs) The Left Outsides Remind me of of a post Broadcast Fairport Convention. The Left Outsides - The Shape Of Things To Come Grantby Dan Grigson was a notable remixer and artist who has had a low profile recently until a surprising and amazing return. An amazing EP that spins the bottle between; kickstarted motorik rock, indescribably beautiful imaginary lost folk, and lush cinematic glower. Granby - The Beast System Leisure Birds Retrofuturist kosmische psyche band. Leisure Bird - Tetrahedron The Lost Tapes Record Club Clinic members in Blair Witch style found tapes project. The Lost Tapes Record Club EP-4 Cats Eyes Combination of Faris Badwan of the Horrors and the brilliant in her own right Rachel Zeffira Their regular albums are much more along the lines of a Danielle Dax does a baroque garage Lee and Nancy affair but the true gem is the soundtrack for Peter Strickland's brilliantDuke of Burgundy film which IMO outshiners everything else they have done. To be honest I was astonished they could ever come up with anything as good s Coat of Arms. Cat's Eyes - The Duke of Burgundy Original Soundtrack Album Cat's Eyes - Face in the Crowd single song off debut album. The Simonsound Weirdly I've had Simonsound reords for years and didn't know he was also in Black Channels. This is heavily infuccenced by space music of the 50's and 60's but blended with a sleepy library break feel, that reminds me of Earthing or Alpha or even Dj Shadow. The Simonsound - Reverse Engineering Relevant (loosely) library/soundtrack influenced acts Listening Center Jon Brooks The Hardy Tree Vic Mars Pye Corner Audio House in the Woods (PCA related) Pentagram Home Video Stratus (PCA related) Plinth Land Equivalents Groovy music for schools and colleges feel but has this spangly Dif Juz thing hidden behind its test card. Good Morning & Alpha Numeric Routines Labels Ghost Box buy everything, more than worthy of their own thread and then some. Folklore Tapes amazing label, with incredible sense of detail Trunk Buried Treasure Public Information Clay Pipe one of those buy blind record labels Deep Distance ditto^^^ Polytechnic Youth ditto^^^ Front And Follow Finders Keepers Death Waltz Originals Influences (a very rough and ready and hopefully not presumptuous list) Film/TV list possible later if there's interest. The United States of America Elephant's Memory The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Silver Apples Fifty Foot Hose The Chocolate Watch Band Ennio Morricone Bruno Nicolai Lubos Fiser Hal Blaine - Psychedelic Percussion Ravi Shankar (Alice in Wonderland Soundtrack) Mort Garson/The Zodiac Paul Giovanni Basil Kirchin Raymond Scott The BBc Radiophonic Workshop The Group (Feed back) Carl Orff The Free Design Tender Buttons period Rosa Yemen Weekend Young Marble Giants Minimal Compact
The various bands that Angeline Morrison has been involved with (We Are Muffy/Ambassadors of Sorrow/Rowan:Morrison/solo) would fit on the folkier end of this continuum. Something about her vocal timbre reminds me of Trish.
Al I don't know all of these bands but some listing seem a bit arbitrary. I mean.... I never thought of Cat's Eyes or Movietone as especially Stereolab-y. While it's a great reminder that "Day & Night" and "The Blossom Filled Streets" have been sitting on my shelve unplayed for years now. More obvious contenders like Melody's Echo Chamber, Beach House or probably even Laika are missing. Still: Good to be reminded of new music!
That's a whole lotta info. I really like Le Superhomard, bits of Stereolab and some We Are Muffy. Also love the High Llamas. Guessing I'd probably love at least some of the stuff you have listed....
Le SuperHomard is great, just got the vinyl of Meadow Lane Park, some definite Stereolab goodness there. Lake Ruth, The Left Outsides, Beautify Junkyards, The New Lines, Jane Weaver, The Soundcarriers, Virginia Wing, Electrelane, Faten Kanaan, Pram, Le SuperHomard, Laika, Cavern of Anti-Matter, and so many others, some great bands and albums out there in this style. Love it.
I think this record is good enough to be ranked alongside Stereolab, even though it's technically Lounge. Great band.
I tend to favour stuff that's more melodic (e.g. my fave We Are Muffy tune is "Frosted Candy") - which of the groups you mentioned is most likely to fit the bill?
We Are Muffy seems a bit more on the pop side based on that song, doesn't have much of the Neu connection that tends to tie many of these bands together. I'm familiar with Nick's The Lilac Time, but not so much We Are Muffy. You may like Lake Ruth, they are probably the closest to Broadcast, just not quite as disarming. Still lots of charm. Below is one of my favorites from their last record, not a match for what you posted, but just wanted to show you what I tend to like ... BTW, for everyone reading this thread, in case it wasn't clear in my OP above, I just copied the contents of opening post from the other board for convenience, but if interested, definitely click the link and go to the full thread, the conversation goes on for another 18 pages or so with tons of good info back and forth ... Broadcast, retrofuturist pop & hauntological pop; megaguide.
I got into this album in the early 00's, and it's still a secret favorite. They get compared to Stereolab, but I have yet to really listen to Stereolab to understand the comparison. Maybe it's just the weirdo pop and girl singer that links so many bands. Komeda
Stereolab, one of my all time favorites ... I have only casual acquaintance with many of the above, though. High Llamas and Broadcast are great, guess I've got some listening to do
The United States Of America( 1 album) and Silver Apples (2 albums)are 60's bands that both Stereolab and Broadcast were heavily influenced by.
Pretty thorough list, @Davey. Nice to see Hong Kong in the 60s get a mention anywhere! Most of what I’d suggest is already there, though will add in The Leaf Library too - will edit with links when not posting from my phone.
BTW, mentioned in another Broadcast thread by @hamicle and myself, new Death and Vanilla record on the horizon, should be fun ... The video above pulled from the big Broadcast on vinyl thread, which also covers a lot of these bands too, at one point I tried to spin it off on a tangent like this so some really good suggestions surfaced for bands kind of like Broadcast, but even if you don't like my detour toward the end, it's a great thread to peruse ... Broadcast on vinyl
I didn’t read through everything, but didn’t see mention of Jessamine. They definitely scratch that itch though they’re a little inconsistent in what I’ve heard. This song I absolutely love though...
Neat thread -- I look forward to checking some of these bands out. Oh, man, you need to break that shrinkwrap -- The Blossom-Filled Streets is a minor masterpiece. It doesn't really sound like Stereolab, though -- maybe a bit like them or Broadcast in the vocals department, but overall it's a lot closer to late Talk Talk. Good call from the OP re: including Elephant's Memory as a notable influence on those groups. "Old Man Willow" from the Midnight Cowboy OST is a near-complete template for the Broadcast trademark sound (except for the Stan Bronstein soprano sax solo that takes it into fusion territory), just as early Stereolab basically comes straight from Neu!. As for recent bands that occupy the same world, I think the American Analog Set is worth mentioning, especially their earlier records -- though they actually started sounding more explicitly like Stereolab later on. But their earlier records have Farfisa, tape manipulation (splices, backwards playback), and the like, as well as some female vocals on their first album. Also the Headless Heroes disc that came out a while back, though it was all cover songs, still had a little bit of that Broadcast aesthetic about it.
As someone who loves Stereolab, the High Llamas and Broadcast (roughly in that order) it sounds like this will eventually be an expensive thread for me. Thanks!
Also, I remember hearing a song on the soundtrack to the 1970 film Joe that was a dead-on match for middle-period Stereolab. Anyone know the one I mean? It was in the film itself, I assume it was on the OST too...
Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements ranks Top3 on my desert records list I never imagined that music can be played like this before, they opened a door for me to such a strange and cool place in music world
Funny, reading the title I thought "Hey, there's a thread for this over on OSG!" That Lake Ruth LP is great, and very well produced. Love Th' Faith Healers, but TV they never struck me as particularly similar to Stereolab. Although they did do a Can cover, which was a pretty big Stereolab influence.
