Public Service Broadcasting is a London-based pseudonymous musical duo consisting of J. Willgoose, Esq. on guitar, banjo, other stringed instruments, samplings and electronic instruments; and Wrigglesworth on drums, piano and electronic instruments. They take samples from old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material, attempting to ‘teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future’.
“This record has been mastered quieter than most modern albums in order to preserve its dynamics. PSB do not like the loudness wars. Listening to it may therefore require judicious use of the volume knob. Thanks!”
PSB featured as our Artist of the Week from 8/11/2021.
Tracklisting:
| 1. Sputnik |
| 2. Gagarin |
| 3. Fire In The Cockpit |
| 4. E. V. A. |
| 5. The Other Side |
| 6. Valentina (feat. Smoke Fairies) |
| 7. Go! |
| 8. Tomorrow |
Track 9 is 4:06 long and contains a hidden instrumental track (9.3), that plays after 75 seconds of silence (4:06 – 5:21). 9.3 is 2:03 long and ends with another short period of silence from 7:07 to 7:24. In the booklet, in the “Authors note” section, the artist “added a short ambient piece – an attempt at a kind of ‘call of the moon’-type instrumental – to suggest that there is some unfinished business, and we might, one day, send another manned mission to the moon.”
