Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
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| Studio album by Broadcast and The Focus Group | ||||
| Released | 26 October 2009 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic pop, dream pop, Neo psychedelia | |||
| Length | 48:31 | |||
| Label | Warp | |||
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| Metacritic | 79/100 |
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| The Austin Chronicle |  |
| Pitchfork | 7.2/10.0 |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10 |
| PopMatters | 8/10 |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | 4/5 |
Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age is an album collaboration by Broadcast and The Focus Group, released by Warp Records on 27 October 2009.
Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age was voted one of the best 50 albums of 2009 by The Wire.Allmusic reviewed "The whimsy and strangely familiar feel of '60s and '70s library music could also be heard in their music from the beginning, but never more clearly than on this mini-album."The Austin Chronicle was critical stating Witch Cults "has a lot of room for experimentation, but it comes off more like the soundtrack for a 1960s Hammer film."
BBC Music Review reviewed the album favorably stating "Witch Cults Of The Radio Age is laced with enough wonder and intrigue to keep you coming back. It doesn't make perfect sense, but the sense of mystery is a key in itself."Drowned in Sound called the album "chaotic, overstimulating, like opening a dusty wardrobe and having an entire childhood tumble down on your head" as well as carrying "the same trapped-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-mirror allure as Tender Buttons, with Keenan channelling some inner kaleidoscope through her outwardly blank, coolly regretful vocals. In their retrospective on Warp Records, Noisey of Vice reviewed Witch Cults as "perhaps Broadcast's finest achievement, with intimations of Pink Floyd circa Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, as well as the horror film The Innocents and a whole, macabre toybox of colourful, arcane devices."
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