View basket “Grace” has been added to your basket. Bright Magic Public Service Broadcasting SKU: 19.00 19.00 £19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PIAS Released Date: 24th September 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download CodeClear Bright Magic quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Public Service Broadcasting will release their fourth album, Bright Magic, on 24th September 2021 via Play It Again Sam. An album in three parts (Building A City / Building A Myth / Bright Magic), it is their most ambitious undertaking yet, bringing you to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Haupstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany – Berlin. “Doing this felt inevitable, somehow,” muses J.Willgoose, Esq. “In my head, it was whirring and pulsing away for a long time, even before Every Valley – this fascinating, contrary, seductive place. I knew the album was going to be about the city, and its history and myths, and I was going to move there. So it’s quite a personal story. It’s become an album about moving to Berlin to write an album about people who move to Berlin to write an album…” Though PSB’s use of electronics and surging guitar rock remain familiar, Bright Magic uses samples, and the English language, sparingly. It differs from their previous albums in other ways: less linear and narrative, instead it’s an impressionistic portrait of a city from the ground up. A Eureka moment of sorts came in November 2018 when Willgoose heard Walter Ruttman’s radical Berlin tape-artwork Wochenende (or Weekend), which is sampled on three of Bright Magic’s tracks. Created in 1928, the piece collaged speech, field recordings and music into a sonic evocation of the city. Resolving to integrate these long-gone fragments with new manipulated sound sources, he set about making his own Wochenende, a narrative drama for the ears which decodes and realises the dreams of Berlin he’d constructed in his mind. J.Willgoose, Esq. said “I started to get a feeling for where the title of Bright Magic wanted to take me, towards ideas of illumination and inspiration, electricity and flashes of light and colour and sound (all the tracks would eventually be colour coded). I sent it to the rest of the band, and said, I know it’s going to change, but we’ll see how the city itself colours that.” J.Willgoose, Esq moved to Berlin from April 2019 to January 2020. Combining sound archaeology and the flâneuring of the psychogeographer, one street-level pursuit of the city’s energy involved Willgoose walking the Leipzigerstrasse, site of the city’s first electric streetlight, using a wide-band electromagnetic receiver from Moscow’s Soma Laboratories. “I walked up and down recording electrical currents and interference,” he laughs. “You can hear a few of these little frequency buzzes, clicks and impulses in Im Licht (a song inspired in part by pioneering lightbulb manufacturers AEG and Siemens). It’s what I was trying to do in the wider sense, I suppose – to capture those tiny little pulses you pick up while walking through a city.” He wrote and recorded in Kreuzberg’s famous Hansa Tonstudio recording complex. This brought closer several inescapable musical touchstones: Depeche Mode’s classic eighties triumvirate, U2’s Achtung Baby and, crucially, Bowie’s “Heroes” and Low. “The whole shape and structure of the record is very much in debt to Low,” says Willgoose. Indeed, the Warszawa-evoking “The Visitor” – whose designated colour is the particular Orange of that album’s sleeve – was initially intended to feature a sample of Bowie reflecting, says Willgoose, on “how he viewed himself as this vessel for synthesizing and refracting other influences, and presenting avant-garde influences to the mainstream. We tried to absorb a bit of that spirit.” As well as EERA, the album’s other guest voices include Blixa Bargeld, veteran of The Bad Seeds and Einstürzende Neubauten, who becomes the voice of Berlin’s industry on the robo-teknik “Der Rhythmus der Maschinen”. Andreya Casablanca of Berlin garageistes Gurr stands in for Marlene Dietrich in “My Blue Heaven”, an anthem of proud self-determination. A very pro-European record, Bright Magic is ultimately not just about one city, but all centres of human interaction and community which allow the free exchange and cross-pollination of ideas. The album will be released on the following formats Ltd LP – gatefold sleeve, 20 page 12” x 12” booklet, download card and orange/black marbled vinyl LP – gatefold sleeve, 20 page 12” x 12” booklet, download card and black vinyl Artist Public Service Broadcasting Genre Rock And Pop Label PIAS Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Public Service Broadcasting View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting This New Noise Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 8th September 2023 £32.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Public Service Broadcasting This New Noise £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 8th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting White Star Liner Rock And Pop | PIAS | 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 4th December 2018 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting White Star Liner £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PIAS SKU: PIASR1039T Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 180g, 1LP Released 11th August 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVA02 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton – Limited Coloured Vinyl Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes DVD Released 2nd December 2016 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton – Limited Coloured Vinyl £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVAL04X Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes DVD Released Date: 2nd December 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting Inform Educate Entertain Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 6th May 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting Inform Educate Entertain £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVA01 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th May 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 2LP, Includes DVD Released 2nd December 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVAL04 Formats: 2LP, Includes DVD Released Date: 2nd December 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting Sputnik / Korolev Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 17th November 2015 £8.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting Sputnik / Korolev £8.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVS06 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 17th November 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting The War Room Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 26th January 2024 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting The War Room £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRV002 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 26th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more from Public Service Broadcasting Start again More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Dion Born To Be With You Folk | Ace Records | 180g, 1LP Released 28th August 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dion Born To Be With You £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Ace Records SKU: ACEHIQLP033 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 28th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hobo Johnson The Fall of Hobo Johnson Rock And Pop | Warner Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th September 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hobo Johnson The Fall of Hobo Johnson £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Records SKU: 0093624899150 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sofia Portanet Chasing Dreams Rock And Pop | Duchess Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th April 2024 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sofia Portanet Chasing Dreams £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Duchess Records SKU: LPDBR180C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Django Django Marble Skies Rock And Pop | Because Music | 1LP Released 26th January 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Django Django Marble Skies £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Because Music SKU: BEC5543135 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th January 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cold War Kids Hold My Home Rock And Pop | Downtown | 1LP Released 2nd March 2015 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cold War Kids Hold My Home £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Downtown SKU: 88875014491 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Animal Collective Centipede Hz (Deluxe Indies Only) Rock And Pop | Domino | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 31st August 2012 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Animal Collective Centipede Hz (Deluxe Indies Only) £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP274X Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 31st August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Oasis Masterplan (Remastered) Rock And Pop | Big Brother | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 3rd November 2023 £27.00 - £33.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Oasis Masterplan (Remastered) £27.00 - £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Big Brother Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View No Devotion Permanence Indies Only Coloured Vinyl Rock And Pop | Collect Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 23rd September 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders No Devotion Permanence Indies Only Coloured Vinyl £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Collect Records SKU: 0819162019665 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Will Varley The Hole Around My Head Rock And Pop | Yellow Cake | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd December 2021 £20.00 - £22.00 Select options Will Varley The Hole Around My Head £20.00 - £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Yellow Cake Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd December 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Lael Neale Star Eaters Delight Rock And Pop | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st April 2023 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lael Neale Star Eaters Delight £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1534 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting This New Noise Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 8th September 2023 £32.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Public Service Broadcasting This New Noise £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 8th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options
View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting White Star Liner Rock And Pop | PIAS | 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 4th December 2018 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting White Star Liner £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: PIAS SKU: PIASR1039T Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 180g, 1LP Released 11th August 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVA02 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton – Limited Coloured Vinyl Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes DVD Released 2nd December 2016 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton – Limited Coloured Vinyl £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVAL04X Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes DVD Released Date: 2nd December 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting Inform Educate Entertain Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 6th May 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting Inform Educate Entertain £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVA01 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th May 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 2LP, Includes DVD Released 2nd December 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting Live At Brixton £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVAL04 Formats: 2LP, Includes DVD Released Date: 2nd December 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting Sputnik / Korolev Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 17th November 2015 £8.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting Sputnik / Korolev £8.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRVS06 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 17th November 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Public Service Broadcasting The War Room Rock And Pop | Test Card Recordings | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 26th January 2024 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Service Broadcasting The War Room £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Test Card Recordings SKU: TCRV002 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 26th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Dion Born To Be With You Folk | Ace Records | 180g, 1LP Released 28th August 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dion Born To Be With You £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Ace Records SKU: ACEHIQLP033 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 28th August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Hobo Johnson The Fall of Hobo Johnson Rock And Pop | Warner Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th September 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hobo Johnson The Fall of Hobo Johnson £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Records SKU: 0093624899150 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Sofia Portanet Chasing Dreams Rock And Pop | Duchess Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 5th April 2024 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sofia Portanet Chasing Dreams £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Duchess Records SKU: LPDBR180C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Django Django Marble Skies Rock And Pop | Because Music | 1LP Released 26th January 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Django Django Marble Skies £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Because Music SKU: BEC5543135 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th January 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Cold War Kids Hold My Home Rock And Pop | Downtown | 1LP Released 2nd March 2015 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cold War Kids Hold My Home £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Downtown SKU: 88875014491 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Animal Collective Centipede Hz (Deluxe Indies Only) Rock And Pop | Domino | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 31st August 2012 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Animal Collective Centipede Hz (Deluxe Indies Only) £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP274X Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 31st August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Oasis Masterplan (Remastered) Rock And Pop | Big Brother | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 3rd November 2023 £27.00 - £33.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Oasis Masterplan (Remastered) £27.00 - £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Big Brother Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options
View Product Quick View No Devotion Permanence Indies Only Coloured Vinyl Rock And Pop | Collect Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 23rd September 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders No Devotion Permanence Indies Only Coloured Vinyl £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Collect Records SKU: 0819162019665 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders
View Product Quick View Will Varley The Hole Around My Head Rock And Pop | Yellow Cake | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd December 2021 £20.00 - £22.00 Select options Will Varley The Hole Around My Head £20.00 - £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Yellow Cake Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd December 2021 Read More Select options
View Product Quick View Lael Neale Star Eaters Delight Rock And Pop | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st April 2023 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lael Neale Star Eaters Delight £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1534 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders