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''Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age'' is an album collaboration by Broadcast and The Focus Group, released by Warp Records on October 27, 2009. == Reception == ''Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age'' was voted one of the best 50 albums of 2009 by ''The Wire''. ''Allmusic'' reviewed "The whimsy and strangely familiar feel of '60s and '70s library music could also be heard in their music from the beginning, but never more clearly than on this mini-album."〔 ''The Austin Chronicle'' was critical stating ''Witch Cults'' "has a lot of room for experimentation, but it comes off more like the soundtrack for a 1960s Hammer film."〔 ''BBC Music Review'' reviewed the album favorably stating "''Witch Cults Of The Radio Age'' is laced with enough wonder and intrigue to keep you coming back. It doesn't make perfect sense, but the sense of mystery is a key in itself." ''Drowned in Sound'' called the album "chaotic, overstimulating, like opening a dusty wardrobe and having an entire childhood tumble down on your head" as well as carrying "the same trapped-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-mirror allure as ''Tender Buttons'', with Keenan channelling some inner kaleidoscope through her outwardly blank, coolly regretful vocals.〔 In their retrospective on Warp Records, ''Noisey'' of ''Vice'' reviewed ''Witch Cults'' as "perhaps Broadcast's finest achievement, with intimations of Pink Floyd circa Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, as well as the horror film The Innocents and a whole, macabre toybox of colourful, arcane devices." ''Pitchfork'' critiqued the album "predictable" and the collaboration between Broadcast and The Focus Group like "trying to cast their spells at the same time: Some of the record is great, plenty of it is cross-chatter."〔 ''PopMatters'' reviewed ''Witch Cults'' with "The entire album is an exorcism of an dead universe. Nothing can stay together here. It’s hauntology as a pasture of incidental tones and half-ripped photographs. The video footage is unable to focus. The lens’s view is eternally obstructed. The wild blurs of compounded biographies come off like a fever dream of a memory play."〔 ''Rookie'' praised ''Witch Cults'' with "The vast array of chopped and screwed samples–drawn from horror movies, nursery rhymes, and something that sounds like a long lost mantra-like ritual from some faraway place a hundred years ago–create a dynamic, haunting, but still pleasant mood, which is what makes it so thrilling. It’s dark, but you kind of want to savor that darkness." ''Tiny Mix Tapes'' commented "''Witch Cults'' goes even further, drifting between fleeting moments of obscured 'songs' and strange haunted house soundscapes. Melodic themes are introduced and later reprised in various forms, but more importantly they often sound as if they’re coming from some out-of-sync universe."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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