Broken Records - Let Me Come Home
Edinburgh ensemble Broken Records, led by frontman Jamie Sutherland, has been described as "Scotland's Arcade Fire" for their earnest, sweeping art-rock and penchant for swapping out a rather eclectic array of instruments during their live sets. Both grand and grandiose, from elegant string-laden ballads to explosive full-scale rock assaults, Broken Records dream big and play even bigger. And if a little scenery gets chewed in the process, so be it. We tend to like artists and bands who swing for the fence and whose reach may, from time to time, exceed their grasp.
New second album, Let Me Come Home, arriving in the U.K. October 26 (4AD) and January 11 in the U.S., maintains the intense, rhythmic rootsy bluster with songs such as new single "A Darkness Rises Up" making the violin-centric flurry of grand scale folk/rock a surprisingly appetising slice of surging orchestral rock melodrama. We sense the band is side-stepping a bit of the overwrought lyrical artifices of their '09 debut for a more direct approach, a shift that smartly focuses on their musical strengths. New "Darkness" video after the jump.
Broken Records - "A Darkness Rises Up" (from Let Me Come Home)
Broken Records - "A Leaving Song" (from Let Me Come Home)
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