Public Service Broadcasting by Alex Lake
Public Service Broadcasting have set their fourth studio LP for release on September 24th.
Following the wonderfully evocative 2015 album The Race For Space, Public Service Broadcasting are once again moving their eyes from the skies to the streets on their next record Bright Magic.
As with the follow-up to The Race For Space – 2017’s Every Valley – J. Willgoose, Esq., Wrigglesworth and JFAbraham will be focusing on the cultural heartbeat of a metropolis, this time Berlin in three parts entitled Building A City / Building A Myth / Bright Magic.
“Doing this felt inevitable, somehow,” J. Willgoose, Esq. says. “In my head, it was whirring and pulsing away for a long time, even before Every Valley – this fascinating, contrary, seductive place.”
“I knew the album was going to be about the city, and its history and myths, and I was going to move there. So it’s quite a personal story. It’s become an album about moving to Berlin to write an album about people who move to Berlin to write an album…”
Public Service Broadcasting will head out on a tour of the UK later this year, starting on October 24th in Cardiff.
Bright Magic tracklist:
Der Sumpf (Sinfonie der Großstadt)
Im Licht
Der Rhythmus der Maschinen [ft. Blixa Bargeld]
People, Let’s Dance [ft. EERA]
Blue Heaven [ft. Andreya Casablanca]
Gib mir das Licht [ft. EERA]
The Visitor
Lichtspiel I: Opus
Lichtspiel II: Schwarz Weiss Grau
Lichtspiel III: Symphonie Diagonale
Ich und die Stadt [ft. Nina Hoss]
Tour dates:
October
24 – Cardiff, University Great Hall
25 -Brighton, Dome
26 -Bristol, O2 Academy
27 – Exeter, The Great Hall
28 – Southampton, O2 Guildhall
30 -Aylesbury, Friars Waterside
31 – Birmingham, O2 Institute
November
1 – Leeds, O2 Academy
2 – Llandudno, Venue Cymru
4 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
5 – Newcastle, O2 City Hall
6 – Aberdeen, Music Hall
7 – Glasgow, Barrowlands
9 -Nottingham, Rock City
10 – London, O2 Brixton Academy
11 – Cambridge, Corn Exchange
