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Shout it from the rooftops though--with this record, Broken Records could well have a contender for album of the year on their hands.
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Such an over-the-top approach could end in solemn self-parody. But Broken Records' refreshing playfulness and surprisingly light touch indicate they're really enjoying themselves.
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Under The RadarAny more than a prefunctory listen to their debut album reveals a sound that resists easy categorization, poised somewhere between Nick Cave and the fiery British folk of Bellowhead and Show Of Hands. [Summer 2009, p.64]
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Until the Earth Begins to Part is a very good album; each band member is skilled at his or her craft, and the album benefits from it.
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As far as debut albums go, Until the Earth Begins to Part may not be as important as it thinks it is, but it certainly delivers the promise of greatness.
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FilterBroken Records has a notable ability to convey otherworldly transit to past centuries and places, but unlike those aforementioned Americans, they sometimes take the wandering toward places too far off the beaten track. Summer 2009, p.103]
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There are moribund string melodies here that would be at home in a BBC costume drama, and when they address global warming, their politicised folk-rock calls the distinctly unfashionable likes of the Levellers to mind.
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MojoThe overall feeling, despite all the musical mix'n'matching is of a traditional record: a rootsy return, rather than a copy of a certain Canadian seven-piece art-rock racket. [Jul 2009, p.105]
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Q MagazineThis is a better than promising start. [Jul 2009, p.118]
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We have an album that displays a band with considerable potential, but which is disappointingly lacking in imagination: compositionally and lyrically.
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With a bit of luck, Broken Records won’t be afraid to indulge themselves a little more in the future, because it would be a minor tragedy to see such a worldly band opt to wallow in mediocrity
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Much of Until the Earth comes off like the narrator from "Windowsill" still telling these damn kids to get off his lawn.
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M@cooSJul 8, 2009Big music !