![]() ![]() Her lyrics provided alternately unsettling and touching portraits of a peculiarly English strain of anxiety and wonder, one indivisible from the other. ![]() Rather she used her voice almost as another instrument, an integral part of the overall design. She never emoted in her singing, the music behind her was fraught and alien enough. The instrumentation was a startlingly confident melange of psych-rock, film soundtrack and beat-girl pop, anchored by Trish’s hushed yet urgent vocals. The moods swung from Hammer-horror melodrama on the harpsichord-heavy title track to ethereal strangeness on the outer space-themed According to No Plan, while The World Backwards sounded like music from an Andy Warhol loft party just when the mood has turned ugly. The songs on their debut release, The Book Lovers EP, seemed to hiss and pop like aged vinyl, even when heard on CD. Ostensibly ‘retro-futurist’ like their comrades Stereolab (a support tour with whom in 1996 went a long way to establishing them as a live entity), there was something perturbing, preternatural and precocious in their design that made them sound like a band that had existed for years. Trish was the voice inside your head, the hand on your shoulder, a warming presence in the bleakness of the British climate, outlining the beauty of the world for the attentive listener.įormed in Birmingham in the mid-’90s, Broadcast distilled a number of disparate influences into a sound that was at once charming and sinister. To many of them it must feel that they have lost a personal friend, such was the atmosphere of unforced intimacy that the music of Broadcast generated. Only hours before, word had surfaced that she was gravely ill, prompting worried ‘get well soon’ tweets and messages from the hidden army of Broadcast fans who haunted the internet. Trish Keenan, lead singer and primary creative force in the band Broadcast, had died from complications with pneumonia, contracted while on tour in Australia. Disbelief, shock and immense sadness greeted the news that broke last Friday morning, 14 January 2011. ![]()
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