Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part (2009)

Genre : Indie,Rock,Pop,Folk,Scotland Hmm!!
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Tracklist

01. Nearly Home
02. If The News Makes You Sad, Dont Watch it
03. Until The Earth Beings To Part
04. A Promise
05. Thoughts On A Picture (In A Paper, January 2009)
06. If Eilert Loevborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like This
07. Wolves
08. Ghosts
09. A Good Reason
10. Slow Parade

Broken Records (Edinburgh)
are a seven piece band based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Formed in December 2006, they have gigged continuously since then. The breadth of sound is shared amongst the seven members playing guitars, bass, violin, cello, accordion, mandolin, piano, trumpet, glockenspiel and drums. 2007 has been a busy year for the band with live sessions on BBC Radio One and BBC 6 Music, being Best of T Break Stage at T in the Park, and numerous gigs across Scotland.

They release their debut vinyl single on Young Turks: “if the news makes you sad, don’t watch it” 14/04/2008

“They deal in big lush, string-soaked songs with a pop sensibility. think a british arcade fire with soaring, jeff buckley-esque melodies. they are magical, engrossing and wholly enveloping, genuinely and excitingly bursting with commercial potential.” (Rough Trade)

One of their lyrics is written in dialouge with Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The song is called “If Eilert Lovborg wrote a song, it would sound like this”, and is about poor Eilert from the play “Hedda Gabler”, who asks Hedda to “stay for love”, or go, and if so, take with her his loneliness. It’s a wonderfully intellectual lyric and the saddest song ever.

Broken Records, who have recently signed to 4AD bring us their debut album with the label. The Records record, entitled Until The Earth Begins To Part, is due for release on June 1st, and will be preceded by a single of the same name on May 11th. The album was recorded during January at Monnow Valley Studios in Wales, and was produced by Ian Caple.