Broadcast - Echo's Answer

Name: Broadcast - Echo's Answer
Uploaded: 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released 1 November 1999 on Warp Records (WAP125) as the lead single from Broadcast's debut album The Noise Made by People (March 2000), 'Echo's Answer' arrived at a pivotal moment in UK experimental pop. Broadcast — a Birmingham-formed quintet led by Trish Keenan and James Cargill — occupied a singular niche on Warp, the label's first…

1999 · Late-90s UK Indie Electronic / Neo-Psychedelia (1999) · music video

1999Late-90s UK Indie Electronic / Neo-Psychedelia (1999)UK Late-90s Indie Electronic / Neo-Psychedelia / Hauntology proto-movement

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Released 1 November 1999 on Warp Records (WAP125) as the lead single from Broadcast's debut album The Noise Made by People (March 2000), 'Echo's Answer' arrived at a pivotal moment in UK experimental pop. Broadcast — a Birmingham-formed quintet led by Trish Keenan and James Cargill — occupied a singular niche on Warp, the label's first non-electronic signing, blending 1960s psychedelic pop architecture with…

Why it matters

A cornerstone artifact of late-1990s UK neo-psychedelia and indietronica, 'Echo's Answer' bridges ambient pop, dream pop, and electronic minimalism in a form that prefigured the hauntology movement. Pitchfork's placement of the track in its 1990s canon and Stereogum's crediting of The Noise Made…

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