Broadcast - Man Is Not A Bird

What this video is

Released 11 August 2003 on Warp Records as part of Broadcast's second studio album 'Haha Sound', 'Man Is Not A Bird' sits within the band's sustained project of filtering 1960s psychedelic pop, BBC Radiophonic Workshop electronics, and Czech surrealist cinema through early 2000s indie production. Warp Records, historically a Sheffield-born electronic label, was in 2003 actively expanding its roster toward…

Why it matters

Broadcast occupied a singular position in early 2000s British music as a bridge between post-rock's textural ambitions, 1960s psych-pop melody, and Warp Records' experimental electronics ethos. 'Man Is Not A Bird' and 'Haha Sound' as a whole are canonical reference points for the hauntology genre…