{"product_id":"broadcast-mother-is-the-milky-way-lp-1","title":"Broadcast – Mother is the Milky Way [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eReleased as a tour only CD limited to 750 copies supporting their collaborative album with the Focus Group in 2009, Mother Is The Milky Way takes on a retrospective weight as Broadcast’s true final release before Trish Keenan’s passing in 2011. The release contains some of Broadcast’s warmest, most personal recordings as a group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"description-article\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrish Keenan was known for her dreamily distant delivery on Broadcast’s records, but before connecting with James Cargill, Keenan was a part of another duo in Birmingham: the more folk-leaning Hayward Winters. While virtually nothing from that project made it onto the internet aside from a few mentions in interviews, it provides some explanation for how naturally Broadcast slipped into sample-heavy psych folk for Mother. The EP properly opens on ‘In Here The World Begins’, unfurling woozily but proving to be the closest Keenan and Cargill come to a standard issue Broadcast song here. Highlight ‘Elegant Elephant’ is more telling of the project’s aim, crafting a pastoral folk song in what sounds like the belly of a beast, soothed only by the reverberations of Keenan’s voice inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSketches of songs quickly give way to tripped out field recordings, woodwind interludes, and excited chatter underpinning Keenan’s singing, giving Mother a certain wide-eyed, psychedelic Alice in Wonderland-esque whimsy. Considering Keenan was a known lover of the children’s book, it’s hard not see Mother as a bittersweet, unintentional tribute to Keenan’s life, but far more enjoyable to just enjoy the ride down one last rabbit hole from Broadcast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"description-article article-article\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemastered from the original tapes at Calyx in Berlin\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarp, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B3bzee-t_tw?si=O5xVy9XBiFTk4wG1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"naturestripstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47589254529265,"sku":null,"price":49.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/8859\/0065\/files\/broadcast_motheristhemilkyway.png?v=1740038167","url":"https:\/\/naturestripstore.myshopify.com\/products\/broadcast-mother-is-the-milky-way-lp-1","provider":"naturestripstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}