Broken Records – Until the Earth Begins to Part

by The Yellow Stereo on Fri, 2009/07/03 - 7:23pm

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There’s something about a Scottish accent that allows a singer to be as emotionally ragged as he wants without crossing over into dreaded ‘emo’ territory. Broken Records will probably remind some of the Twilight Sad in this respect, as both vocalists tend to sing with an emotional intensity that goes straight for the heart. However, Broken Records would be the piano-and-strings cousins to the Twilight Sad’s post-rock leanings. Each song on their debut, Until the Earth Begins to Part, has that same emotional intesity, but the music is more varied, with piano pieces and gorgeous bursts of strings to accompany the guitars. In my book, it’s the perfect balance of urgency and beauty all the way through. I’ll let the songs below speak for themselves, but if you enjoy these I can guarantee you’ll enjoy the whole album.

The album is out in the U.S. this Tuesday, July 7, via 4 AD.

MP3: Broken Records :: “If  the News Makes You Sad, Don’t Watch It”
MP3: Broken Records :: “If Eilert Loevborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like This”

And you can check out the stop-motion video for the title track on Youtube.

 

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