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Broken Hips release show-only EP preview of 2nd LP 23 June 2003
Adding to the tease, we can’t yet tell you anything about when or where the full-length follow-up to last year’s self-titled debut might appear. “Nothing is in motion” for LP number two, spokesperson Kate Bredimus told Rockbites this week. But you’ll hear about it here first. I was lucky enough to get a copy of the new CD-R EP in the mail, and I’m very pleased to perhaps be the first to let you know that, if you appreciate slow but intense music, you do need this disc. And with a Broken Hips US tour taking shape for this fall, getting hold of one just might work out. The band formed in 1999, evolving out of Toothpick—the Richmond steel guitar/musical saw duo of Phil Murphy and Jessica Bittner. Bryan Hoffa, a producer/engineer at Sound Of Music studios (co-owned by Cracker’s David Lowery) married Bittner that year and joined the band—who renamed themselves Broken Hips and later brought in Tom Brickman (upright bass) and Chris Gallo (drums). Cornet player Paul Watson sits in on the new EP. Lead track '3937' begins with the sparkly sussuration of sleigh bells joined by vibes, Jess’s smokey voice, a Calexico-like slow guitar, and then the rest of the band. It’s a vertigo-inducing game they play... adding searing electric guitar and effects to the mix and briefly quoting King Crimson’s Red-era noise orchestrations before whipping back to where they started. Other tracks on the EP are Bad Shoes, Worser (perhaps my favorite—with Bryan, Jess, and Phil all singing, and with backing that includes cornet and banjo), Black Thumb, and Murder Of Owls. Every song on this preview EP is strong, slow, and deeply intense. If you love music that fully inhabits its space and time as a living entity unto itself... Broken Hips would like to invade your ears. Broken Hips play this Sunday (29 June) at Richmond’s Alley Katz club. We’ll bring you US tour information as soon as we get it. And check our direct link to a full-length MP3 version of Bad Shoes off the new EP. You can still pick up the first Broken Hips album directly from the band’s Website. | Broken Hips | | Bad Shoes (full length MP3) | | Alley Katz club | | article on Broken Hips' first LP | | Sound Of Music studio | | top of page | |
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