Broken Records: Let Me Come Home - review

(4AD)The barrels of cheer available on the second album from Edinburgh sextet Broken Records might be apparent from the influences singer Jamie Sutherland cited in the summer: Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, Nick Cave's Murder Ballads, as well as films such as Badlands. Although a dazzling live band, Broken Records are hampered by a range than stretches from "windswept" to "storm-tossed". For all that Sutherland's lyrics are largely impenetrable beneath the layers of guitars and organ and violin...

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