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- Summary: This is the first album for the Los Angeles-based power-pop band formerly known as The Brokedown.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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Mixed: 3 out of 13
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The Broken West sounds like old-style AM pop with muscle and guts.
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So many bands confuse being laid-back with being comatose that it's good to hear a band who give their richly layered tunes some heart and soul.
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This is an album made for car trips by a band best suited for noisy bars; you’re going to want to play it loud.
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Akin to AM era Wilco matched with Big Star's #1 Record.
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Their influences are all immediately recognizable and their songs all hummably predictable, and yet their Merge debut, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On, reveals the band to be confidently inventive and assured in their collective identity.
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The Broken West's debut sports a big, masculine sound strangely lacking in swagger but with a sensitivity that never devolves into emo self-consciousness.
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The lyrics are particularly generic, even for a pop band, and they render The Broken West’s mission obsolete.
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