The_Broken_Family_Band-Hello_Love-2007-uF

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2008-02-29

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ARTiST: The Broken Family Band
TiTLE: Hello Love
LABEL: Track & Field
GENRE: Rock
TiME: 47:42 min
SiZE:  70,1 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jun-28-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jul-02-2007
WEBSiTE: www.thebrokenfamilyband.com

Track List:

01. Leaps                                      03:28
02. Love Your Man, Love Your Woman             04:41
03. So Many Lovers                             04:11
04. Julian                                     04:00
05. Don't Change Your Mind                     04:37
06. Dancing On The 4th Floor                   03:31
07. You Get Me                                 04:02
08. Hey Captain!                               03:30
09. Give And Take                              03:27
10. Little Justice                             04:24
11. Seven Sisters                              07:51

Release Notes:

2006's release made it quite clear that Balls wasn't
just a catchy title but a manifesto, a mission
statement declaring that there was a new sheriff in
town and his name was rock. With the latest album
Hello Love the plan remains the same and although
the steps forward aren't as big as Balls it still
moves this band a healthy distance away from their
alt-country roots. Not that these roots are
something to be disassociated with but the increase
in volume and intensity that has occurred over these
last two albums have moulded this band into a force
to be reckoned with and the country twang which is
still very much present but now given extra bite is
all the more potent a vehicle to deliver their brand
of forked-tongue love poetry. Front man Steven Adams
says of this rock element, "We like the fact that
we're getting heavier with each record and we all
enjoy hitting our things hard. Ten years in, we'll
sound like The Bronx."

This comment says a lot about this band. They know
where they're going but have no intention of
hurrying to get there and from the start this has
been their charm. They have a refreshingly
light-hearted approach to music and though this
album could see them adopting a slightly more
serious approach by a: toning down the whole
'Cambridge boys do Nashville' thing and b: singing
more about love as opposed to hate the fun and
frolics are still kicking about.

Things pretty much continue on from where they left
off in 2005. The record hits the ground running with
Leaps. Adams' vocals start straight off the bat with
the first beat of the drum and we're off and loving
it. First single Love Your Man, Love Your Woman is
the flagship song on this album. It's got all the
balls of the previous record with its stomping drum
structure that builds to a shrieking repeated
chorus, screeching guitars and thrashing cymbals.

After all the acerbic words of jilted love Adams has
penned in the past So Many Lovers sees a certain
degree of positivity through hindsight with the line
"You should be happy to be among the infinite number
of people who have loved and lost." The new
softening up is also reflected by the dreamy female
backing vocals on songs like Julian and the
beautiful You Get Me.

Someone has clearly melted the jaded heart of this
band for them to produce such strong declarations of
love and with this grand thaw we get honesty such as
Dancing On The 4th Floor with its admission "Nearly
all the songs are lies except this one." So Hello
Love is a duel personality with the softness of this
new acceptance of love and the hard musical muscle
of some of the more rockier tracks. The result is an
ever approaching fullness to this band's sound and
their road map to The Bronx may be a long one but
the journey has already started well and in the
words of Hey Captain "All of us on board believe in
you."

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