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Feb 11, 2013What’s left is a truly beautiful, if slightly dishevelled, gothic menagerie, amongst the last of an intact Broadcast’s recorded works, and a great inducement to see this movie so apparently rich in sound, terror, and beauty.
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Feb 1, 2013The echoes of previously heard themes, motifs make for a compelling examination of memory and experience as much as for an effective soundtrack.
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Jan 22, 2013Marked with woe from beginning to end, BerberianSoundStudio is closer to antichrist than Hallelujah, but Broadcast reminds you that divinity is intrinsic with death.
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MojoJan 18, 2013This is beautiful music. [Feb 2013, p.91]
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Jan 15, 2013The period-precise score captures the claustrophobic dread and paranoia of the fictional film shoot documented in Berberian Sound Studio.
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Jan 14, 2013The music doesn't need film imagery to be deeply unsettling.
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Jan 14, 2013This is an album worth hearing, not least because it will make you want to see the film.
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Jan 14, 2013Berberian Sound Studios is a wonderful, intense and darkly beautiful legacy to Keenan's unique character, and testament to the band's continuing ability as their world changes.
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Jan 8, 2013Berberian Sound Studio successfully builds on the spectral philosophy of Radio Age, and is even more of a radically disjointed tapestry of occult and funereal sound than that album was.
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Jan 8, 2013This sinister, skittering collection (recorded before the sad passing of singer Trish Keenan in 2011) is the perfect compliment to Peter Strickland's marvellous film.
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Jan 7, 2013Berberian Sound Studio is like a notebook filled with a lost love's handwriting.
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Jan 7, 2013Clever, eerie, and beautiful, Berberian Sound Studio is the perfect accompaniment to a film that examines the nature of fear and sound's part in it, and it's wonderful to hear Cargill continue Broadcast's legacy with a project so tailored to their strengths.
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Jan 7, 2013All in all, Berberian Sound Studio is a surprisingly complete and coherent effort, not simply for a soundtrack, but, frankly, more for the difficult conditions Cargill must've faced in bringing it to fruition.
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Jan 7, 2013Broadcast's soundtrack for Berberian Sound Studio is a triumph not just because it is inescapably aware of itself as a soundtrack but also serves as a fitting epitaph for the band's singularity and vision throughout their all-too-brief career.
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Jan 4, 2013Berberian Sound Studio and Broadcast are a perfect match, and this soundtrack--something you may not want to listen to alone if you keep hearing a weird noise outside the window--gives you an idea of how magnificent this band can be.
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Jan 4, 2013As extraordinary and original as the film itself, Berberian Sound Studio is both a bona fide film score and consistent electronica album, and in the wake of Trish Keenan's tragic death carries the very real air of a requiem.
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Jan 3, 2013Cargill's interspersion of snippets of sound and dialogue from the film adds considerably to the overall experience, providing chilling and entertaining context along the way. [Jan-Feb 2013, p.87]
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Jan 3, 2013It doubtless works best heard in the cinema or the home theatre, and especially in the context of Julian House's beautifully lurid title sequence.
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Jan 3, 2013With its 30-second cues and oblique titles, it resembles one of those old library albums Broadcast were so influenced by in the first place.
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Jan 3, 2013A haunting memorial.
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Jan 3, 2013What prevents Berberian Sound Studio from being a genre exercise is the care taken to paper over the cracks, to find some common ground between droney, Popol Vuh-type material ("Valeria's Burial (Under the Fort)") and more visceral horror soundtrack work (the positively seething "The Game's Up").