Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley review: ‘The overall effect is sad and stirring’

A sort of post-rock version of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood
New album: Public Service Broadcasting’s Every Valley
Richard Godwin30 June 2017

Public Service Broadcasting’s third album is a sort of post-rock version of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, tracing the decline of these once proud industrial communities with grandiloquent guitars, synths and strings, snippets of archival audio and guest vocalists.

Chief orchestrator J Willgoose, Esq. has tapped into a rich seam of sonics and sentiment.

James Dean Bradfield lends his plaintive tones to Turn No More and Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura keens “We believe in progress” over soft-focus Eighties synths on Progress.

The overall effect is sad and stirring.

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