Although "Haha Sound" opens with clanging and creaking noises, Broadcast's second album is considerably less clamorous than its first, "The Noise Made by People." The British band uses analog ...

While the psychedelic palette usually runs toward spin-art color bursts and day-glo heat, Broadcast views it with a fine eye for gray tones. Singer Trish Keenan says as much on Haha Sound's first song ...