Pitchfork

Broadcast may have pared down, but they're not going anywhere (we hope). Trish Keenan and James Cargill remain trudging forward (at last check, according to Warp Records) as a duo, Tender Buttons keeps getting better with every listen, Trish's fiction and poetry just got published last month in a quarterly journal, and on August 21 in the UK and August 22 in North America, a nice portion of Broadcast songs will resurface from the depths of OOP-land on the rarities comp Future Crayon, due out on Warp.

The collection will gather only previously-released material, but most (if not all) of the songs are on singles, EPs, and compilations that are out of print, including the first All Tomorrow's Parties comp ("DDL") from 2001 and the We Are Reasonable People compilation ("Hammer Without a Master") released way back in 1998. The rest of the selections come from singles and EPs like 1999's Echo's Answer EP, 2000's Extended Play EP, "Come On Let's Go" single, and Extended Play Two EP, and the 2003 Pendulum EP.

And while the duo carries on with their music-making (the next record is "in various stages of completion" according to Warp), the charmingly aloof voice of Trish Keenan has garnered the attention of the literary press. (But can you broadcast in print?) The London-based quarterly newspaper journal The High Horse published Keenan's short story "Life of a Dummy" and her poem "One Way to Look at a Dream" in their sixth issue, which came out in April. Since The High Horse is available only in England, does that make Keenan's writing another rarity?

Future Crayon:

01 Illumination
02 Still Feels Like Tears
03 Small Song IV
04 Where Youth and Laughter Go
05 One Hour Empire
06 Distant Call
07 Poem of Dead Song
08 Hammer Without a Master
09 Locusts
10 Chord Simple
11 Dave's Dream
12 DDL
13 Test Area
14 Unchanging Window/Chord Simple
15 A Man for Atlantis
16 Minus Two
17 Violent Playground
18 Belly Dance

Broadcast have a handful of UK dates scheduled in July:

07-19 Bristol, England - The Fleece
07-20 Manchester, England - TBA
07-21 London, England - Bush Hall
07-22 Birmingham, England - Supersonic Festival