How They Are
Album • May 16 / 2010 • 7 songs, 32m 21s
Singer-Songwriter
Noteable
After completing work on the elaborate forthcoming follow-up to his vocal debut, Home, musician/composer Peter Broderick went into the studio with the goal of recording and mixing an album in one day live to 2 tape, with no overdubs or punch-ins only voice, piano, and guitar. How They Are is this record. Known as a stop-gap release in waning industry terms, the album sheds the tossed-off connotation, revealing something altogether sublime in its austerity and candor. This is not lite Broderick. This is essential Broderick.
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As a direct demonstration of how real life circumstances truly dictate the course of great art, Efterklang member Peter Broderick recorded the sparse piano...