The Broken Family Band's mix of sweet alt.country ballads and frenzied rockers seemed to reach a peak four or five years ago with the one-two punch of the 'Jesus Songs EP' (complete with Neutral Milk Hotel cover) and the 'BALLS' album. The latter was a great record with beautiful ballads and amusing rockers (sample lyric.."we're all fucked up on the booze and the drugs/ how long are you going to be in the bathroom baby").
Since then 2007's 'Hello Love' LP was a slight disappointment, mostly mid-tempo songs with any humour largely missing. The Cambridge band have been quiet since then, but now..GOOD NEWS! They are back and have signed a deal with Cooking Vinyl, which sounds a good mix and have an album 'Please and Thank You' out on 20th April. You can listen to three songs from the album at their website ( http://www.thebrokenfamilyband.com . The best of which 'Cinema vs House' rediscovers the humour and passion of old, whilst exploring similar lyrical themes as Tindersticks' 'Rented Rooms'.
All good news. Oh and they play The Scala on 7th May too.
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