If the epic, Highlands strings and fiery earnestness of Broken Records’ album opener, “Nearly Home”, doesn’t tug you by the heartstrings, shame on you, dear listener, you haven’t got a heart. This Edinburgh band has all the makings of a stadium filler, from the gut-wrenching vocals of singer Jamie Sutherland, easily slinking from Springsteen gravel stirrings to soaring Bono trills in a single refrain, to the skilled, grand melodies of a seven-piece that rocks while dabbling with cello, trumpet, martial drums and piano. Like Scotland’s other fast-rising folk rock band Frightened Rabbit, Broken Records knows how to raise roofs with sonic bursts of emotion that would elate even the most dastardly scrooge. (4AD) –Selina S.
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