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Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio
Released: 07/01/2013
Warp
Trish Keenan’s untimely death in 2011 was a huge loss for British music and sadly means that Broadcast’s soundtrack to Peter Strickland’s art horror flick is the band’s last completed record. While it works as a stand-alone album, the band worked closely with the director to capture the film’s sinister feel, so expect snippets of dialogue and unsettling sound effects throughout.
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80 %
NME“Creepily beautiful...” Comprising The Omen-like church organ, classic horror FX and a spot of occult flute playing, the period-precise score captures the claustrophobic dread and paranoia of the fictional film shoot documented in Berberian Sound Studio...
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70 %
The Line of Best Fit“A score harkening back to a classic era of vintage cinema...” A truly beautiful, if slightly dishevelled, gothic menagerie, amongst the last of an intact Broadcast’s recorded works, and a great inducement to see this movie so apparently rich in sound, terror, and beauty...
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70 %
This Is Fake DIY“As beguiling and bewitching as any Broadcast studio album proper...” A triumph not just because it is inescapably aware of itself as a soundtrack but also serves as a fitting epitaph for the band’s singularity and vision throughout their all-too-brief career...
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80 %
The Skinny“Showcases a muted, minimal approach...” An album of glimpses, fragments and half-formed images; but it has a remarkable coherence and beauty despite, or perhaps because of this...
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90%
Uncut“It’s not an easy listen...” Moments of eerie enchantment are swiftly followed by tracks consisting of a couple of minutes gibbering from a dangerously aroused goblin. It doubtless works best heard in the cinema or the home theatre...
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80 %
allmusic“Despite its homages, Berberian Sound Studio is unmistakably Broadcast...” Clever, eerie, and beautiful, Berberian Sound Studio is the perfect accompaniment to a film that examines the nature of fear and sound's part in it...
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60%
The Independent“39 miniature sonic studies in the vein of European "library music"...” Most effective are those tracks, including "Collatina, Mark of Damnation", which employ the childlike vocals of Broadcast's late singer Trish Keenan...
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80 %
BBC“A perfect soundtrack for the on-screen action...” Berberian Sound Studio and Broadcast are a perfect match, and this soundtrack – something you may not want to listen to alone if you keep hearing a weird noise outside the window – gives you an idea of how magnificent this band can be...
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74 %
Pitchfork“Mostly an attempt at subtlety emulating the work of others...” What prevents Berberian Sound Studio from being a genre exercise is the care taken to paper over the cracks, to find some common ground between droney, Popol Vuh-type material and more visceral horror soundtrack work...
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80 %
Guardian“What's missing is Keenan's remarkable voice...” There are no songs on it, just instrumentals, and Broadcast's greatest skill may have been alchemising the strange, abstruse musical influences they'd turned up by scouring Birmingham's junk shops into remarkable pop songs...
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