Printed Circuit

Like her labelmates I Am Robot And Proud and Figurine, Claire Broadley of Printed Circuit specializes in squeezing warm melodies out of her cold machines, and she also has a knack for crafting tunes that are really damn catchy.

It's obvious that the classic synth-pop sounds of the 80s are a big influence on Printed Circuit, especially on the addictive mini-epic "Switch It On" that pairs the guest vocals of Alice Kain of London duo Brikolage with the coolest use of a computerized voice since Console's "14 Zero Zero". But it's not a completely retro affair, as many of the bleeps and bloops come from the more modern school of melodic and breakbeat infused IDM. Throw in a collaboration with her follow Leeds resident Random Number on the excellent "Binary Jockeys", and you've got a set of groove-laden sounds that are warm, bubbly and really, really fun. - Feedback Monitor

Like her labelmates I Am Robot And Proud and Figurine, Claire Broadley of Printed Circuit specializes in squeezing warm melodies out of her cold machines, and she also has a knack for crafting tunes that are really damn catchy.

It's obvious that the classic synth-pop sounds of the 80s are a big influence on Printed Circuit, especially on the addictive mini-epic "Switch It On" that pairs the guest vocals of Alice Kain of London duo Brikolage with the coolest use of a computerized voice since Console's "14 Zero Zero". But it's not a completely retro affair, as many of the bleeps and bloops come from the more modern school of melodic and breakbeat infused IDM. Throw in a collaboration with her follow Leeds resident Random Number on the excellent "Binary Jockeys", and you've got a set of groove-laden sounds that are warm, bubbly and really, really fun. - Feedback Monitor

Leeds-based Claire Broadley (Printed Circuit) makes music for dealing with the urban environment. Music made out of all your favourite colours (the strobing clashing palette of Spectrum’s loading), amped up into a retina-bending neon and mapped into sound by your favourite ever instruments (C64’s, Playstation’s, SNES’s). There’s no reason why high streets can’t be the colour of this album’s Rainbow Islands-esque cover art. There’s no reason why music can’t be allowed to make you happy instead of just pretending to make you sad. - Plan B/ Careless Talk Costs Lives

Leeds-based Claire Broadley (Printed Circuit) makes music for dealing with the urban environment. Music made out of all your favourite colours (the strobing clashing palette of Spectrum’s loading), amped up into a retina-bending neon and mapped into sound by your favourite ever instruments (C64’s, Playstation’s, SNES’s). There’s no reason why high streets can’t be the colour of this album’s Rainbow Islands-esque cover art. There’s no reason why music can’t be allowed to make you happy instead of just pretending to make you sad. - Plan B/ Careless Talk Costs Lives

Leeds' own Claire Broadley makes zinging, playful electronic music crammed full of sparse, trebly computer beats, warm rave-alarm riffing, pop nous and counterpoint - there's a classical background to her or I'll eat my headphones: syncopated melodies chase and morph across the stereo. Although it presents itself as naive - and has the enthusiasm and glee of naive music - there is a lot going on here. - Flux

Leeds' own Claire Broadley makes zinging, playful electronic music crammed full of sparse, trebly computer beats, warm rave-alarm riffing, pop nous and counterpoint - there's a classical background to her or I'll eat my headphones: syncopated melodies chase and morph across the stereo. Although it presents itself as naive - and has the enthusiasm and glee of naive music - there is a lot going on here. - Flux

...Claire Broadley here goes for a melody-led electronic dance feel, almost daring the listener to get out the glimmer globes and disco lights and shake it like your junior school disco never did. If 'Colacubic' and 'Semaphore on the Dancefloor' with their eighties synth-pop vibes are faithful to the arcade game theme template, other tracks explore more subtle delights. 'I Heart [My] Jen Sexy (Part 2)' and 'Circuit Non-Stop' are perhaps our pick, skittering around uncontrollably like robot mice in a maze: and the one we looked forward to most, 'Binary Jockeys' - a collaboration with Leeds' own Random Number - is a slinky construct teeming with electro grooves and immersing you in an arsenal of home computer bleeps, its busy breakbeats offset by in-out fades of wintry keyboard strings....'The Adventure Game' is clearly a labour of love, and we always feel a special affinity for those. - In Love With These Times

...Claire Broadley here goes for a melody-led electronic dance feel, almost daring the listener to get out the glimmer globes and disco lights and shake it like your junior school disco never did. If 'Colacubic' and 'Semaphore on the Dancefloor' with their eighties synth-pop vibes are faithful to the arcade game theme template, other tracks explore more subtle delights. 'I Heart [My] Jen Sexy (Part 2)' and 'Circuit Non-Stop' are perhaps our pick, skittering around uncontrollably like robot mice in a maze: and the one we looked forward to most, 'Binary Jockeys' - a collaboration with Leeds' own Random Number - is a slinky construct teeming with electro grooves and immersing you in an arsenal of home computer bleeps, its busy breakbeats offset by in-out fades of wintry keyboard strings....'The Adventure Game' is clearly a labour of love, and we always feel a special affinity for those. - In Love With These Times

On 'The Adventure Game', the latest release by one-woman electro-pop genius Claire Broadley, Nintendos and Ataris have been reinvented as weapons of musical implementation.... Printed Circuit has created the perfect electro-pop album, of which something like the electroclash genre aspires to but is never warm and fuzzy enough to fully realise. - Rocket In The Pocket

On 'The Adventure Game', the latest release by one-woman electro-pop genius Claire Broadley, Nintendos and Ataris have been reinvented as weapons of musical implementation.... Printed Circuit has created the perfect electro-pop album, of which something like the electroclash genre aspires to but is never warm and fuzzy enough to fully realise. - Rocket In The Pocket

Only Printed Circuit could make C64 disco a true reality. Printed Circuit has been a major player in the 8-bit revolution, creating music ranging from C64 lullabies to SID shaking dance tunes. - Electrobleep

Only Printed Circuit could make C64 disco a true reality. Printed Circuit has been a major player in the 8-bit revolution, creating music ranging from C64 lullabies to SID shaking dance tunes. - Electrobleep

The fact that the entire thing sounds like it was written on a malfunctioning ZX Spectrum 48k does nothing but make me immediately note Printed Circuit down in the shortlist for album of the year. - Plan B/Careless Talk Costs Lives

The fact that the entire thing sounds like it was written on a malfunctioning ZX Spectrum 48k does nothing but make me immediately note Printed Circuit down in the shortlist for album of the year. - Plan B/Careless Talk Costs Lives

Printed Circuit asked a diverse collection of her peers and friends to interpret some previously released and unreleased material and the results are stunning. [...] Remix albums tend to be hit or miss, usually falling on the side of the latter due to the temptation to be self-indulgent, but since Reprints enlists such a diverse crew of talented remixers, it succeeds in sounding edgy and innovative on practically every track. - DrawerB

Printed Circuit asked a diverse collection of her peers and friends to interpret some previously released and unreleased material and the results are stunning. [...] Remix albums tend to be hit or miss, usually falling on the side of the latter due to the temptation to be self-indulgent, but since Reprints enlists such a diverse crew of talented remixers, it succeeds in sounding edgy and innovative on practically every track. - DrawerB

For the wittily titled remix album Reprints, Broadley has handed tracks from her previous 7" and CDR releases over to a variety of artists including Frederik Schikowski, James Figurine, Lesser, Fingernail and more. The resulting reworks run the gamut from neo-synthpop that doesn't stray far from the source material, to skittering laptop glitchery and rumbling noise. In a genre that is often on the verge of collapsing under a ton of seriousness and self-importance, it's truly refreshing to find joyful gems [...] that are both unassuming and unpretentious. - Grooves

For the wittily titled remix album Reprints, Broadley has handed tracks from her previous 7" and CDR releases over to a variety of artists including Frederik Schikowski, James Figurine, Lesser, Fingernail and more. The resulting reworks run the gamut from neo-synthpop that doesn't stray far from the source material, to skittering laptop glitchery and rumbling noise. In a genre that is often on the verge of collapsing under a ton of seriousness and self-importance, it's truly refreshing to find joyful gems [...] that are both unassuming and unpretentious. - Grooves