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Public Service Broadcasting today announce This New Noise, the newly remixed and remastered live recording of their acclaimed 2022 BBC Proms show at Londonrsquos Royal Albert Hall, released on 8 September 2023 via Test Card Recordings.A celebration of the power of radio written in recognition of the centenary of the BBC, This New Noise saw the band joining forces with the 88 piece BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley. A standout performance from 2022rsquos BBC Proms, it received 5s in The Telegraph who called it ldquoa resonant, timely and ultimately touching showrdquo. Founder member J. Willgoose, Esq. remixed the concert from scratch, bringing out even more depth and texture from a multilayered performance and showing it in a new light.This New Noise is the second time Public Service Broadcasting have been commissioned for the BBC Proms. In 2019 the band performed an orchestral arrangement of their 2015 studio album The Race for Space with The MultiStory Orchestra to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon.In conjunction with the announcement, the band shares Broadcasting HousePublic Service Broadcasting have been ldquoteaching the lessons of the past through the music of the futurerdquo for more than a decade now. 2013rsquos debut album Inform Educate Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audioportals to the Battle Of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond. Two years later, The Race For Space used similar methods to laud the superpowersrsquo rivalry and heroism in orbit and on the Moon. An indie DIY phenomenon the album has remarkably since achieved gold disc status having sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone. In 2017, joined by voices including Manic Street Preachersrsquo James Dean Bradfield, Every Valley was a moving exploration of community and memory via the rise and fall of the British coal industry.Their most ambitious undertaking yet, Bright Magic brought the listener to Europersquos heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the lsquoHauptstadtrsquo of the Federal Republic of Germany ndash Berlin. Released in late 2021, and debuting at No 2 in the UK album chart, the bandrsquos fourth album was described by Electronic Sound as ldquotheir most ambitious, leftfield and majestic work to date, their glorious creative peak, their magnum opusrdquo, DIY said ldquoit flourished at its most calm and erupted at its most ferventrdquo and Clash said it ldquocemented PSBs reputation as a vital act right at the top of their gamerdquo. The album also featured multiple BBC Radio 6 Music AListed singles, including ldquoPeople, Letrsquos Dancerdquo ft. EERA and ldquoBlue Heavenrdquo ft. Andreya Casablanca.
