Broadcast – Maida Vale Sessions (2022)

Together with Stereolab, Broadcast were the style-defining band of the indietronica genre from the mid-nineties onwards. A good ten years after the untimely death of singer Trish Keenan, this reissue of the »Maida Vale Sessions«, recorded in the studios of the BBC, is a late but highly deserved memorial to their colourful, inclusive and good-humoured sound. With the best songs from their early works, the band proves that their detail-rich studio recordings also work wonderfully in a live setting – and also that it was not only the world of music that was much more optimistic 20 years ago.