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Broadcast 2000 - Broadcast 2000

Review by Vyvian Raoul

One imagines Joe has many friends who like him very much, for, if his music’s anything to go by, he’s intensely likeable. »

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broadcast 2000 is the musical brainchild of joe steer, a classical music graduate with a unique take on folk using computer-generated looping of acoustic instruments. multitalented singer-songwriter steer follows up his debut ep 'building blocks' with the self-titled full-length album
'broadcast 2000'. this time around the bedroom recordings have been spiced up with violin parts recorded by acclaimed violinist tom hobden of noah and the whale and additional production by star producer eliot james (kaiser chiefs / bloc party) to complete a record full of mesmerizing orchestral folk-pop compositions. the tracks are veritable symphonic gems
featuring smoothly layered vocal stylings and complex yet harmonious musical arrangements that include double bass, cello, guitar, ukulele, glockenspiel and percussion all sung and played on the recordings by steer himself. for his live band, steer has assembled a mini-orchestra of
exceptionally talented london based musicians who together give his songs a thrilling life of their own. on gronland.
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