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No Broadcast - Album Review: The Blueprint

09 Dec 2015 // A review by Andrew Smit

Opening with a theatrical instrumental with piano and scorching choral like keys, you are stirred and aroused, the tension builds and you’re curious, where you are headed? but there is no doubt your listening to something different, something that is very powerful and good.

The second track Closet is like a booming dominatrix, with soaring sustained guitar and searing vocal squeals from lead vocalist/guitarist Joshua Braden that rip at your senses with its forceful aggression. At times it’s a potent and powerful psychedelic ride that doesn’t relent, but there are occasional excursions from the unyielding hallucinogenic rhythms, like in the great track Jist which initially has a sturdy rock rhythm that breaks into a mystic void that sets you free until you're drawn back to the power sphere at the end.

Control is a brooding ballad that really gets into you, this track shows that these three guys from Christchurch are not afraid to take you on a journey with softer passages and non-traditional rhythms and song structures. The music is very atmospheric, spacey and distant, the moody sound is very real, recorded with an intentional musty room sound, it’s not a synthetic overproduced and unreal rock sound, the vibe is gritty and alive with feeling. Joshua’s guitar work and vocals are very stirring, while the drums by Chris Self and Bass by Kieran Colina are sublime throughout, the sound rolls into one organic mash of power and character that is a very impressive debut to say the least.

Overall the album is a commanding experience and you could only imagine the intensity of experiencing it performed live. Well worth a listen.

 

About No Broadcast

No Broadcast, spawns out of the environmental influences of Christchurch and New Zealand. They combine this with a particular perspective and draw sounds from the likes of Jakob, Mogwai, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, HDU and The Veils. Their sound is surpassed only by the embrace of live experience. Since 2007 the name No Broadcast started to appear on posters in reviews and on the NZ music scene as a band with the ability to move audiences with their emotive, free-flowing music. Playing various festivals and shows nationwide with various local and national artists, they have played alongside rockers Beastwars; post punk heavyweights Die! Die! Die!, Bauhaus,
Skinny Hobos, Clap Clap Riot and Mountaineater.

No Broadcast in its true essence is a vision of sonic expression stemming from the mind and soul of singer songwriter and producer Josh Braden. No Broadcast have produced and released 5 album to date.

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Releases

The Common Thread
Year: 2023
Type: Album
Lie In Orbit
Year: 2022
Type: Album
Defined & Divided
Year: 2022
Type: EP
The Blueprint
Year: 2015
Type: Album
No Broadcast
Year: 2014
Type: Album
Live At The Dux
Year: 2014
Type: EP
1736
Year: 2013
Type: EP
Null And Void
Year: 2011
Type: EP

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