Haha Sound is the second album by the English

England

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 band Broadcast

Broadcast (band)

Broadcast are an electronic music band, founded in Birmingham, England. Original members were Trish Keenan , Roj Stevens , Tim Felton and James Cargill . Various drummers played with the band, including Keith York, Phil Jenkins, Jeremy Barnes, Steve Perkins, and Neil Bullock...

. It was released in 2003 by Warp Records

Warp Records

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. Haha Sound was their first to chart in the United States

United States

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 charting on the Top Electronic Albums

Top Electronic Albums

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. The album was released to critical acclaim.

Reception

Online music magazine

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 Pitchfork Media

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 placed Haha Sound at number 121 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. In November 2007, Ha Ha Sound was listed as one of The Guardian

The Guardian

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's '1000 Albums to Listen to Before You Die'

Track listing

All songs by Broadcast.

1. "Colour Me In" – 2:51
2. "Pendulum" – 4:21
3. "Before We Begin" – 3:22
4. "Valerie" – 4:04
5. "Man Is Not a Bird" – 4:52
6. "Minim" – 3:00
7. "Lunch Hour Pops" – 3:36
8. "Black Umbrellas" – 1:08
9. "Ominous Cloud" – 3:46
10. "Distorsion" – 2:02
11. "Oh How I Miss You" – 1:17
12. "The Little Bell" – 2:48
13. "Winter Now" – 3:48
14. "Hawk" – 3:42

Of Montreal

Of Montreal

Of Montreal is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontman Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance with a woman "of Montreal." The band is one of the bands of the Elephant 6 collective...

 covered the song, "Colour Me In," which was featured in their limited edition pressing of Satanic Panic in the Attic

Satanic Panic in the Attic

Satanic Panic in the Attic is the sixth album released by the band Of Montreal. The album, like later albums The Sunlandic Twins and Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, was made almost entirely by Kevin Barnes....

.

Personnel

• Broadcast
  Broadcast (band)
  Broadcast are an electronic music band, founded in Birmingham, England. Original members were Trish Keenan , Roj Stevens , Tim Felton and James Cargill . Various drummers played with the band, including Keith York, Phil Jenkins, Jeremy Barnes, Steve Perkins, and Neil Bullock...
  
   - engineer
• Neil Bullock - drums
• P. Jenkins - drums
• Nick Webb
  Nick Webb (musician)
  Nicholas "Nick" Webb was an English acoustic guitarist, composer, and co-founder of contemporary jazz group Acoustic Alchemy...
  
   - mastering
  Audio mastering
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Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	August 11, 2003	Warp Records Warp Records Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....	LP Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	warplp106
			CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	warpcd106
			special edition hardback bound "book" cd	warpcd106x
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	August 12, 2003		CD	warpcd106

External links

• Official website
• Haha Sound at Metacritic
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