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The Noise Made by People | 
 enlarge | Artist: Broadcast
Label: Tommy Boy
Category: Music
Buy New: $52.99
New (2) Used (7) Collectible (1) from $11.58
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 52957
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 016998141328
EAN: 0016998141328
ASIN: B00004SH94
Release Date: April 18, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Long Was The Year | | • | Unchanging Window | | • | Minus One | | • | Come On Let's Go | | • | Echo's Answer | | • | Tower Of Our Tuning | | • | Papercuts | | • | You Can Fall | | • | Look Outside | | • | Until Then | | • | City In Progress | | • | Dead The Long Year |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Five years on, Broadcast (one of Britain's finest groups of pop experimentalists) finally got around to releasing a proper debut full-length. The group's sound veers from skewed, downtempo electronic pop to weirdly accessible analog futurism in the course of one song; it is simply delightful cocktail lounge music for the postmodern sophisticate in you. By turns eerie, uplifting, and enchanting, The Noise Made by People was well worth the wait. --Mike McGonigal
Amazon.com
Back in 1997, U.K.-based Warp Records released a quirky mini-album of rare material from its newest signing, a little-known experimental pop band from Birmingham called Broadcast. Eyebrows were raised. Why had Warp--a hard-edged techno label famed for its avant-garde output from electronic pioneers like Aphex Twin--signed this quirky, retro- obsessed West Midlands five-piece? The reason is simple: Broadcast is a very talented band. This much is proved by their brilliant debut, The Noise Made by People. The album's skewed electronic pop and retrofuturism most resemble the analog styling of Stereolab and original krautrock musicians such as Can and Neu. Yet Broadcast's sound is wonderfully unique, an enchanting mixture of analog synth sounds and West Coast psychedelia fused with '90s electronica and indie-pop sensibilities. With the addition of haunting and occasionally chilling vocals from singer Trish Keenan, the effect is at times mesmerizing. The Noise Made by People is an eerie, uplifting, and enchanting debut album from one of Britain's best-kept secrets. --Matt Anniss
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 A lot of stylistic posing without much musical backbone September 19, 2007
OneLove (so fla)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
2 1/2
Broadcast work with what they are given fairly well in this overpraised debut attempting to emulate a retro psychedelic sound, but the unimpressive songwriting leaves much to merely a weak, derivative atmosphere. While touches of electronic undercurrents help punctuate this moody pop in appreciative ways, it hardly seems enough to justify the noise made for these people, let alone be quality-compared with Stereolab. At least they provided elegant background music, Broadcast merely sound self-consciously elegant.
 Mmmmmm....Broadcast September 4, 2004
Paul H. (USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Noise Made By People is what good "retro" (for lack of a better term) music should sound like. The fact is, it sounds like a lost 60's pop record rather than a 60's pop throwback obviously made in the modern era. Broadcast's debut has a richer and more diverse platter of sounds than their still-in-print sophomore record Ha Ha Sound, and the best moments on The Noise Made By People recall the best of The United States Of America and Stereolab. Trish Kennan's voice is lovely and wraps elequently around pop gems like "Come On Let's Go," "Papercuts," and "Unchanging Window." My heart belongs to "Echo's Answer" though, an exercise in minimalism that's absolutely gorgeous and captivating. Mistakenly labeled as "electronica," probably only because it's been released on Warp and Tommy Boy, The Noise Made By People is a modern day psych-pop/jazz/lounge classic, like Stereolab minus the kraut-rock fixation.
 very strong debut-will be a classic May 20, 2004
emvb (SEATTLE)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
THE NOISE MADE BY PEOPLE IS A HAUNTING UNIQUE HARD TO CLASSIFY DEBUT FROM AN ENGLISH 5 PIECE WHO COMBINE 60S MOD AND PSYCHEDLIA WITH ELECTRONIC-KRAUTROCK AND DOWNTEMPO POP. THIS RECORD IS THE FIRST FULL LENGTH (MINUS THE WORK NONWORK COMP OF EARLY EPS) AND SUCCEEDS BY BEING UNCONCERNED WITH ANY ATTEMPT AT BEING COMMERCIAL OR WITH WRITING A RADIOHIT. ODDLY IT BEARS A STRANGE RESEMBLANCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA(A RARE LATE 60S GROUP WHO RELEASED ONE SOLE RECORD WHICH IS NOW OBSCURE CULT CLASSIC AND WORTH EVERY DIME-AT TIMES ITS EERIE HOW MUCH BROADCAST RESEMBLE THEM. THEY ALSO POSSESS BITS OF PORTISHEAD AND STEREOLAB- BUT SOUND STRANGER AND MORE EXPERIMENTAL. THE FEMALE LEAD VOCALS ARE FLOATY PETULA CLARK IN STYLE-(SEE CMON LETS GO AND PAPERCUTS) THE PRODUCTION IS STELLAR-COMBINING LOWFI AESTHETICS-FUZZY DISTORTED TONES-WARM KEYBOARDS AND ODD SOUND EFFECTS BUT IN A MODERN AND POLISHED SOUND( BUT NOT OVERPRODUCED)! ITS REALLY A FINE TUNED MIX THAT IS ONE OF A KIND. THE WHOLE RECORD HAS A TIMELESSNESS(AS IF IT CANT BE PLACED IN ANY PARTICULAR YEAR OR GENRE.)-ALWAYS A DIFFICULT THING TO DO! ITS NOW OUT OF PRINT AND WILL BE REMEMBERED IN TIME AS ANOTHER LOST CLASSIC! THE FOLLOWUP(HA HA SOUND) IS GOOD BUT IS MORE OR LESS A PALE IMITATION OF THIS FINE DEBUT. SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY ON EBAY TO PICK THIS ONE UP- ITS ALL YOU WILL NEED! ONE OF THE BETTER RELEASES IN RECENT MEMORY IF NOT JUST FOR THE STRIKING ORIGINALITY( THOUGH IT DOES SEEM THE USA ALBUM MUST HAVE BEEN IN THEIR RECORD COLLECTIONS. A SLOW MOODY INTERESTING TRIP DOWN THE FUTURE PAST!! ESSENTIAL
Enchanting retro-futurism... April 10, 2003
Herman Grimme (Groningen, Groningen Netherlands)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this album the day after I saw Broadcast play a stunning gig in my town. There is a haunting, dreamlike quality to this music. The pure, almost anaemic vocals and the melodies remind me of Francoise Hardy and other European 60s popmusic, but original arrangements and the use of retro keyboards, Martian bleeps and various other electronic trickery make it all very contemporary. This is gorgeous music, especially if you're into old SF-movies, because this is the aural equivalent...
the united states of america February 13, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
this is a gorgeous full length debut. my girlfriend saw them open for the sea & cake(whom i dislike) and bought the cd. i was pleasantly surprised. i don't agree with the young marble giants comparison in the least. however, their sound is nearly identical to a rarely mentioned band called the united states of america. any fan of this recording should make an attempt to track down their self titled album. i believe it was released in '67.
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