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Album Review: Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space

Richard Moore
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"Niche in focus, but sleek in execution."

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Abandoning Cold War paranoia and scratched tapes for high gloss synths and high speed film, Public Service Broadcasting’s newest concept album arches smoothly between the clean, empty ambience and catchy ‘70s pop-inspired riffs and trills of Space Race nostalgia.

The elastic duo snap between bounce and slap bass and synth landscape seamlessly, all overscored with their trademark historical samples from US and USSR news coverage of shuttle launches, political conflict and internal radio broadcasts between crew and ground control. Niche in focus, but sleek in execution.