I am so excited! The new Public Service Broadcasting album, The Race for Space, was released yesterday and it sounds like it's going to be amazing. Their single Gagarin was a great success and this album is looking to follow in it's glorious wake.
The band take samples from public information films and propaganda and creates instrumental songs around the samples. Spitfire is a great song from their first album Inform-Educate-Entertain and is an example of the flawless way that they combine their music and the samples.
One song from their first album that gave me goosebumps is London Can Take It. It is a chilling, masterful reminder of the war, the beginning being the haunting sound of a wailing siren followed by the words "Now it's eight o clock, Gerry is a little late tonight". It never fails to get me every time. The sound that they created for this song is so fitting it almost seems bizarre that the original information film didn't have the music accompanying it.
Needless to say The Race for Space is going to be well worth a listen, I don't care how tight my student loan is I'm getting down to the nearest music shop and buying this little gem as soon as possible.
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