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Released as a tour only CD 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. Trish 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. Sketches 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.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Creation Day The Travel Flute Way00:34
  • 2.In Here The World Begins03:28
  • 3.Elegant Elephant02:37
  • 4.Through The Gates Of Yesterday00:44
  • 5.Milling Around The Village01:47

B

  • 1.The Aphid Sleeps03:29
  • 2.Growing Backwards00:20
  • 3.I'm Just A Person In This Roomy Verse01:55
  • 4.Never Trust A Rusty Bolt00:42
  • 5.Innocence In Orbit00:38
  • 6.Mother's Milk Means Music (At Home In The Universe)03:08

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