Broadcast - The Noise Made By People

There are elements of pop music I love. There are elements of pop music I despise. Broadcast take away all the extraneous frivolities of the shite you hear on the radio, mix in thrilling experimental interludes and provide stunning melodies that you can't get out of your brain for days. I don't usually like saying things like 'this is what pop music should sound like' but..... this is what pop music should sound like!

The Noise Made By People, Broadcast’s first proper album comes on like gangbusters, smoothing out the rough edges of Work and Non Work while still retaining the skewed melodies and instrumentation. The songs verge a little more on the melancholy, from the slow, meditative “Unchanging Window” to the siren call of “You Can Fall.” There’s also the extraordinary “Come On Let’s Go,” which manages to be both poppy and experimental. “Papercuts” is similarly catchy -- it’s a tune that’ll be stuck in your head like a malignant tumor. Again, the lyrics rise above the clichés and triteness that plague pop music. A wonderful album.