Berberian Sound Studio
Before Trish Keenan's passing in 2011 she teamed with James Cargill on this largely instrumental soundtrack. The album picks up on the similarly fractured thread found on their 2011 Focus Group collaboration Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age.
Broadcast vocalist Trish Keenan died of pneumonia less than two years after the British band released its foremost album, 2009’s Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age. Keenan and James Cargill’s collaborative project with The Focus Group (the solo alias used by electronic musician…
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Broadcast's soundtrack for the critically-acclaimed film Berberian Sound Studio was created by James Cargill and Trish Keenan before the latter's untimely death last year. The devastating effectiveness of her vocals, despite being used only sparsely on this release, is a stark reminder of what Broadcast have lost; although rumours persist that a new album of material featuring vocals recorded before Keenan's passing could surface next year on Warp.
The soundtrack to British director Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio is more than likely the last album you'll ever hear from Broadcast, given Trish Keenan's sad passing in 2011.
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