Electronic outfit Broads and songstress Milly Hirst team up for new album. Since Mark Jennings joined James Ferguson as Broads in 2017, they have released 2 albums of mostly-electronic song experiments - 2018's 'Field Theory' and 2019's 'A Small Box Over a Global Goal' - both on their own imprint, Humm Recordings. For 'Ollust', Broads teamed up with long-time collaborator Milly Hirst to take another leap into the unknown - an almost-entirely analogue album built around pianos, drones, field recordings and wordless vocals. Ollust (which means 'Always' in the local dialect) is something of a departure for the Norwich-based 2-piece. The lush, layered electronics have been stripped away, and replaced with minimal, cyclical piano pieces and treated field recordings. These central elements are offset by a variety of droning synths, various acoustic instruments and the hypnotic voice of folk starlet Milly Hirst . "The tracks take inspiration from Norfolk locations, landscapes and culture - In preparing for the album, we had lots of days out in obscure locations across the county, where I made hours of field recordings and Mark took video footage, which he used as a guide for writing his piano parts at home," says James Ferguson. Praise for the previous albums>> "Highly hypnotic and gorgeous...glides endlessly from start to end in a stream of lush, clinical beauty" - Louder Than War "Outstanding and enchanting with its positive vibe, original dynamic and clever use of sound textures" - The Big Takeover "a deeply felt sense of melancholy and a minimalist aesthetic that other producers would fear" - Paste Magazine FOR FANS OF: Michael Nyman, Grouper, Luke Abbott, Joanna Brouk, Helios.
