After a album compilation, Work and NonWork, released on Warp two and a half years ago, and a long silence, Broadcast and their china shop are back with their first proper album.
The closest correlative to 'The Noise Made By People', however, is the work of LA electronic pioneers The United States Of America.
Work And NonWork a mini-album and their first release on Warp, collects all these rare and lovely songs, one of those unusual compilations notable for its consistency, its sustained tone.
Amazon.com: Work and Non-Work: Music: Broadcast(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Taken in the context of their later work, the collection shows that Broadcast is a band that is evolving, improving, and moving forward.
Unfortunately "Work and Non-Work," a collection of early singles, is not so good, relying too heavily on electronic blips and washes and too little on the experimental indiepop.
This album is a great example as to why sampling isnt always the way to go when making a full length CD.
If a second album is often deemed as difficult, with Broadcast, it started right from their first.
On this album, the band, now a trio following the departure of Roj Stevens in 2002, continue to expand on their sound, bringing more ambient noises into the naïve melodic scope and destabilising further their perversely innocent songs.
The album opens with the short and poetic Colour Me In, on which Trish’s voice appear as bitter-sweet as ever on a bed of old-fashioned electronic noises, before heading down to business with the magnificent Pendulum, already held by some as one of their best songs to date.
Great album, albums like this only come along now and again and it seem's to creep up on me when i think all the best song's have been done, then an album like this pop's up and gives me hope that theres plenty more great song's out there.
No mere album could come close to approaching the spontaneously inspired, gleeful musicmaking of Jon Brion's legendary live shows, so perhaps it is in being a different animal altogether that "Meaningless" succeeds as well it does, relying instead on Brion's studio-bound pop smarts and considerable skills as a producer.
Having heard Brion's fantastic work on various PTA films, it came as no surprise to discover that his record, Meaningless, is a delicious collection of pop songcraft.
The way we work is that I play keyboards and he plays the drums, does the drum machines and we groove together.
Rather than working with finished pieces of music in their remixes, they had learnt how to direct people to do what they wanted to do.
Their Nervous Track and Mind Fluid were the conceptual precursors to the stunning 1996 Nu Yorican Soul album, a ground-breaking project combining jazz, hip hop and latin spice with a deep, moody house flavour, with guests from Roy Ayers to Jocelyn Brown, Jazzy Jeff to the undisputed king of latin jazz, Tito Puente.
Someone at work put smiley faces on and around various areas of my desk and chair while I was out of the office last week.
I'm going into work a little later than normal tomorrow (working late) so I'm planning an exciting, out of the ordinary morning trip to the gym which I usually reserve for Saturday mornings that don't allow me to sleep late.
Anyway, Al and I agree on a time with the understanding that I'm not actually going to be getting out of bed at that time, rather that is the time he'll start the gradual process of rescuing my body and mind from the subtle capture of deep sleep.
Miika Saksi / Graphic Designer(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Work including cd and cd-single covers, styling for photo shoots, photo retouching, magazine advertising, t-shirt, music video direction, and web site.
Work including logotypes, magazine advertising, t-shirts, web site.
Work including cd and cd-single covers, styling for photo shoots, photo retouching, magazine advertising, t-shirt, web site.
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Amazon.com: The Essential Men at Work: Music: Men at Work(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Men at Work tunes were warm, humane, and catchy.
Like any typical one-hit-wonder, Men at Work peaked way too quickly in the 1980s, only to suffer a STEEP decline in sales after their second album.
The liner notes, like the marketing during their heyday, try to pigeonhole Men At Work as a New Wave band, but there's little comparison to other bands of the era like Modern English, Missing Persons, Kajagoogoo, etc., other than the requisite quirkiness/geekiness that defined their image.
Oh, and I found myself lost Looked but nowhere to belong First status I achieve Holds nothing I believe And we drift on and among According to no plan...
Work and Non-Work / According To No Plan
We're glad that you came We need someone to look up to Show us the way cause some say We've been using the wrong tools Don't say that we'll pale into...
Lastings knows that the road to Hell is paved with those sorts of intentions, and he would like to keep Satan’s DOT out of work for a long time.
Lastings will get to a doctor to get this checked out when he can, and will work to make sure this is no longer a problem.
For this installment of “Fact or Fiction”, Yard Work is pleased to bring you two of its long-standing contributors — professional Red Sox fan Bill Simmons and resident science scholar Dr. Robert K. Adair.
Dean Gray presents American Edit(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Well, what can I say besides, "Wow!" Since I released my reinterpretations of the Green Day band's hot new album American Idiot, titled by my producers American Edit, on November 18th, 2005, my life has been a whirlwind of paparazzi and pestering interviewers, film and TV offers, and marriage proposals.
It reminds me of the time after the release of "Behind the Mask of Hakanupanka," the 1948 film about an ancient Hawaiian curse (filmed in exotic Oahu) in which I played a speaking role as Chauffer #3.
Unfortunately I was having a little trouble with the pacemaker on Tuesday and couldn't attend the festivities, but I'm told it was a rollicking good time, and that Dean Gray is starting to become a household name.