By serving it up dusky jungle style, ripe with lady vocals from Deee-Lite's Lady Miss Kier and Lamb's Louise Rhodes. These women punctuate the break-beating, heartbreaking Essence with a silent film star's screams. And Gerald makes like a soul-jazzy Nosferatu, creating a cinematic score that's romantic and stuttering. Allison Wolfe, who owns the sneeringest voice since Johnny Rotten, gets giddy on her own malice, and Molly Neuman and Erin Smith careen through the songs like they're joyriding in a stolen car. The sound of everything you ever should have said, and didn't.
Broadcast says yes.
And to top it off, the album is rich with lyrical substance. You cannot merely nibble on the delicacy that Broadcast has concocted. By People must be devoured whole. Maybe what was so laudable about Like Water was that it evoked such a full range of emotions. You get the point.