15 essential Broadcast tracks and the records where you can find them

Broadcast
‘Where Youth And Laughter Go’
(From Extended Play EP, Warp, 2000)

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A B-side from Broadcast’s Extended Play EP released as a teaser for their long-delayed debut album, ‘Where Youth And Laughter Go’ is an understated deep cut that’s arguably the EP’s highlight. This song was one of the band’s first displays of Keenan multi-tracking her own voice in order to harmonize with herself, which is used to striking effect during the chorus. Her confidence as a vocalist had grown considerably, as had the band’s arrangement skills. Vibraphone is utilized beautifully here in the chorus’s upward swing, blending with Felton’s fluid guitar overdubs.

Elsewhere on the EP, the band indulge their love of film music, particularly Ennio Morricone; the widescreen exotica of instrumental ‘Belly Dance’ recalls the renowned composer’s scores for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, while the galloping, shadowed majesty of ‘Dave’s Dream’ finds Keenan doing her best impression of, or tribute to, Morricone collaborator Edda Dell’orso. The iconic single ‘Papercuts’ rounds out the EP, promising great things for an album which was – finally – just around the corner.

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