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Sep 22, 2009 Broadcast By Kyle Lemmon

In our previous news article about Broadcast‘s upcoming North American jaunt with Atlas Sound, we mentioned an EP was in the works from the British electronic pop duo. Details on that EP, or “mini-album” as the band is calling it, have arrived. You can buy Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age at Bleep or iTunes right now. It’s getting a proper physical release on CD and LP October 26th in the U.K. and October 27th in the U.S., via Warp. If you really can’t wait, sample its lilting psych-pop with a five-minute teaser by right-clicking this.

The release is 48 minutes and contains 23 tracks. (Sounds like a “mini album” to us.) The titular Focus Group in the title refers to Julian House, aka the artist who designs Broadcast’s album covers. He helps churn up some library music mischief as well. According to a press release, Broadcast also will drop a non-mini album next year. Warp has more information on this release, including two embedded previews.

The interesting tracklist is below:

Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age:

01 Intro/Magnetic Tales
02 The Be Colony
03 How Do You Get Along Sir?
04 Will You Read Me.
05 Reception/Group Therapy
06 A Quiet Moment
07 I See, So I See So
08 You Must Wake
09 One Million Years Ago
10 A Seancing Song
11 Mr Beard, You Chatterbox
12 Drug Party
13 Libra, The Mirror’s Minor Self
14 Love’s Long Listen-In
15 We Are After All Here
16 A Medium’s High
17 Ritual / Looking In
18 Make My Sleep His Song
19 Royal Chant
20 What I Saw
21 Let It Begin/Oh Joy
22 Round and Round and Round
23 The Be Colony/Dashing Home/What on Earth Took You?

(www.broadcast.uk.net)