{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Broadcasting System | type = studio | artist = Trenchmouth | cover = Trenchmouth - Broadcasting System.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1996|5|7}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = {{flatlist| *Punk rock *dub }} | length = {{Duration|m=40|s=16}} | label = Skene! | producer = Casey Rice | prev_title = Volumes, Amplifiers, Equalizers | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = | next_year = }}
'''''The Broadcasting System''''' is the fourth and final studio album by American post-hardcore band Trenchmouth. Produced by Casey Rice, it was released on May 7, 1996 through Skene! Records. The album marks as a shift to bass-heavy dub sound from the band's post-hardcore/math rock style.<ref name="allmusic-review">{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-broadcasting-system-mw0000080093 | title=Trenchmouth - The Broadcasting System | publisher=Allmusic | accessdate=September 4, 2015 | author=Glazer, Joshua}}</ref>
The band broke up following the release of ''The Broadcasting System''. Inspired by the new sound on the album, the band members Damon Locks and Wayne Montana formed the band The Eternals.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/trenchmouth-mn0000747058/biography | title=Trenchmouth biography | publisher=Allmusic | accessdate=September 3, 2015 | author=Kellman, Andy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-cure-for-trenchmouth/Content?oid=903733 | title=The Cure for Trenchmouth | publisher=The Chicago Reader | accessdate=September 4, 2015 | author=Margasak, Peter}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic-review"/> }}
Allmusic critic Joshua Glazer described the album as "an under-recognized example of the mid-'90s indie scene's fascination with dub/reggae studio techniques." Glazer further wrote: "Although lacking in the power and diversity of Trenchmouth's previous album, ''Trenchmouth Vs. the Light of the Sun'', ''The Broadcasting System'' is a masterful example of the long standing affinity between punk rock and Jamaican music."<ref name="allmusic-review"/>
==Track listing== # "Picking Up Interference" – 1:33 # "Broadcasting from the Heart" – 6:33 # "The Fire and Wire Colossus" – 4:34 # "In High Contrast" – 5:16 # "Moving with Momentum" – 4:42 # "Overthrower" – 2:43 # "Contrast Beneath the Surface" – 5:23 # "Onus" – 4:57 # "Interference" – 4:35
==Personnel== Album credits as adapted from the liner notes.<ref>Liner notes have been reproduced at Discogs: {{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/Trenchmouth-The-Broadcasting-System/release/3706697 | title=Trenchmouth - The Broadcasting System | publisher=Discogs | accessdate=September 4, 2015}}</ref>
'''Trenchmouth''' *Fred Armisen – drums, percussion, piano, backing vocals *Chris DeZutter – guitar *Damon Locks – vocals, art direction; mixing (2, 7) *Wayne Montana – bass guitar; mixing (7)
'''Other personnel''' * Casey Rice – production, mixing, engineering, backing vocals; sounds, programming (as "Designer") * Richard Warfield Smith – organ, melodica; mixing (1, 7)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Discogs release|20536|type=album}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Broadcasting System}} Category:1996 albums Category:Skene! Records albums Category:Trenchmouth albums