Originally written by Mike Diver · 7 June 2006
Broadcast - recently reduced to the duo of Trish Keenan and James Cargill - are to release a compilation of rare tracks through Warp.
Future Crayon will be released on August 21, and features tracks drawn from a variety of sources. Among the articles plundered are early EPs, singles and complilations including the first All Tomorrow's Parties effort, to which Broadcast contributed 'DDL'.
The track 'Hammer Without a Master', meanwhile, dates from 1998, when it was included on the We Are Reasonable People compilation.
The band are currently working on a new album, said to be in "various stages of completion". Keenan, meanwhile, has recently seen one of her poems, 'One Way to Look at a Dream', published in London-based journal The High Horse.
The full track listing of Future Crayon runs like this:
1 'Illumination' 2 'Still Feels Like Tears' 3 'Small Song IV' 4 'Where Youth and Laughter Go' 5 'One Hour Empire' 6 'Distant Call' 7 'Poem of Dead Song' 8 'Hammer Without a Master' 9 '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'
The band play a series of date in July, too:
July 19 Bristol Fleece 20 Manchester venue TBC 21 London Bush Hall 22 Birmingham SuperSonic Festival @ Custard Factory