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For the record, Inform-Educate-Entertain is one of the best debut albums (and releases in general) of 2013. If you don't know who PSB are, I suggest you to give them a go: twoists might appreciate their sound.
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Sounds like a mixture of Tunng and BoC.i am a pylon wrote:For the record, Inform-Educate-Entertain is one of the best debut albums (and releases in general) of 2013. If you don't know who PSB are, I suggest you to give them a go: twoists might appreciate their sound.
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I can't really take Public Service Broadcasting seriously. As a big fan of Ghost Box and all things hauntological in general, I do sense that they're jumping on the hauntology bandwagon in that they're taking the aesthetic of hauntology without really applying it to the music except injecting it quite liberally (to the point of being almost over the top) with public information samples. I just find their music at odds with their image - even the main guy's fashion sense seems to be nicked directly from Jim Jupp. I'd much rather listen to Broadcast, Belbury Poly, The Focus Group, The Advisory Circle and the like to be honest.i am a pylon wrote:For the record, Inform-Educate-Entertain is one of the best debut albums (and releases in general) of 2013. If you don't know who PSB are, I suggest you to give them a go: twoists might appreciate their sound.
This article sums up my thoughts on them quite succintly:
http://www.aqnb.com/2013/05/27/hauntology-resurrected/
A puzzling latecomer: a project named Public Service Broadcasting, described as an attempt to ‘teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future’. Their Inform-Educate-Entertain LP is heavy-handed in its directness; a literal take on hauntology utilising spoken-word sampling, educational programmes, television and radio excerpts, yet in which all possible nuance is removed from the hauntological template. Ghost Box and Moon Wiring Club managed successfully to employ verbal and visual hints which subtly touched on the uncanny aspects of collective memory. Public Service Broadcasting wear these references as a stiff, uncomfortable retro costume, bringing to mind the image of someone who read a definition of the genre and tried to recreate its qualities via its methodology… without ever having heard the music.
