Haha Sound

Broadcast includes: Trish Keenan (vocals).
Personnel: P. Jenkins, Neil Bullock (drums).
"Colour Me In" drifts in like Leslie Caron's Lili playfully flirting with puppets, with "Pendulum" following on its heels in a heavy daze of psychedelic haze, before giving way to the distorted wall of sound, pre-Beatles pop that is "Before It Begins." And so it goes for Broadcast on its 2003 Warp debut, HAHA SOUND, an album that gleefully flits through sonic time, yet never seems it could exist in any era but the dawn of the 21st century. The Birmingham, England, band had previously built up a rep for experimental yet wholly accessible electronic pop through its Tommy Boy recordings. Fronted by the fetching vocals of Trish Keenan, Broadcast swiftly cashes in on an instantly bewitching LP which, although it harbors echoes of its mentors Stereolab, forges its own disturbingly narcotic ground. It's a breakthrough record.