{"product_id":"emergency_broadcasts","title":"Emergency Broadcasts","description":"\u003cp\u003eSevered Heads’ Emergency Broadcasts is a 2026 archival compilation that combines two rare albums originally made available only through the group’s Sevcom website in the early 2000s. Its first half documents a run of Australian live performances built from chopped-up daytime television, turning broadcast fragments, found voices, abrupt edits, and electronic processing into an intentionally disorienting form of sample-based performance. Tracks are titled for the cities in which they were recorded—such as “The Voice of Russia (Perth),” “Chocolate (Wagga Wagga),” “Penis (Newcastle),” and “Carry On Experimental Musician (Wollongong)”—which gives the material the character of a touring field record as much as a conventional album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second half moves away from those TV-sample collages toward a more compact sequence of electronic miniatures, including “Calippola,” “Climb Samson P,” “Moogle,” “Norway,” “Morse,” “Peru,” “Rosie,” “Reasons for Old Mouth Guy,” “King Kog,” “Goiters,” “Vacuum,” and “Elaborat.” Together, the two programs offer a valuable view of Severed Heads’ long-standing experimental method: treating tape manipulation, broadcasting detritus, synthetic rhythm, noise, and absurd humor as equally viable musical materials. Rather than a polished greatest-hits collection, Emergency Broadcasts is an eccentric, sometimes chaotic excavation of Tom Ellard and company’s outsider electronic practice—best approached as a collage of transmission fragments, satire, sonic texture, and restless invention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":54071326245178,"sku":"39903","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-09-15_at_9.00.07_PM_fb39f174-9c5d-4342-a01b-0f1a55865d7f.jpg?v=1791360073","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/emergency_broadcasts","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}