If there’s one city in Europe where art, industry and society feel most progressive and free, it’s Berlin. A creative crucible through the 19th, 20th – and, so far, 21st – century, its allure has drawn musicians of a more left-of-field and experimental mindset from across the world for the last 50-plus years. Among the latest has been London’s Public Service Broadcasting, or more specifically, frontman and founder J Willgoose Esq, when he relocated there to put together their latest album, Bright Magic.
For Willgoose, the idea of Berlin as a “seductive and enticing place to go” was already in his mind’s eye before PSB first played there in 2013, when touring debut album Inform-Educate-Entertain. “It sounded so cool,” he tells Prog on the phone from his London home, “Everything…