Best of Soundcheck: Public Service Broadcasting; Em Spel

Soundcheck | Aug 22

The London band Public Service Broadcasting makes music out of history: the space race, the UK mining industry, and now, the final flight of Amelia Earhart, have all been turned into albums. Public Service Broadcasting plays live. Then, hear Em Spel, the folk-rock singer from Chicago, also known as Emma Hospelhorn, a classical flutist who is a member of Chicago’s experimental chamber music collective Ensemble Dal Niente. When she steps into the universe of her solo project, Em Spel, she writes and sings surreal, beguiling songs that fall somewhere in between dream pop, art rock, and folk music. Em Spel also plays live for this best of Soundcheck. 

Public Service Broadcasting set list: 1. Electra 2. Arabian Flight. 3. Go!

Em Spel set list: 1. The Poet 2. Sea Wall

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