Broadcast

Broadcast are one of the most innovative, cinematic pop bands to ever exist, helping kick-start the new millennium by setting the bar high with their nonpareil artistic songcraft and packaging. Their sound is both kinetic and organic: Post-rock beats merge with antiquated tape loops, analog circuitry, oscillations, ring modulators and endearingly demure vocals that seem wistfully romantic at certain times and androgynously aloof at others. There's something about Broadcast's post-retro sound that would fit in perfectly on the Duophonic roster -- their bubbly, champagne-textured backing vocals, organ drones and otherworldly sound of someone playing something that sounds a lot like a sea of hands rubbing homespun tones out of a field of Waterford crystal drinking glasses. Perfect dream pop.