Broken Water Start Tour, Release Album
This winter, Broken Water recorded ten songs with Stan Wright which find the band at their best: moving forward, honing their sound, filtering new ideas through a songwriting process that has become increasingly collaborative. The trio expanded its version of musical chairs with Pooknyw and Ingram continuing to share bass and drum duties, as well as an increased division of labor among the vocals. The band credits a panoply of inspirations for the feel of the album: Russian punk-rock poets, the ocean, drowning, the Occupy movement, touring, nightmares, dreams, memories; relationships to privilege, substances, and other powers. This way of conceiving a record—creating a tight structure while allowing space for the inevitable appearance of the ghosts that can’t help but haunt your daily life—bears a direct correlation to the community in which these musicians live and work. Broken Water is a band unafraid to wear its influences on its sleeve, because—as the new album shows— there’s always another day, another shirt, another sleeve, another sound.
Broken Water
Tempest
CD/LP/digital
May 29, 2012
01. Drown
02. Coming Down
03. Orange Blossom Stains
04. Yanka Dyagileva
05. Underground
06. Thread to Connect
07. Paranoid
08. River Under River
09. Chantal Seder
10. When You Said
04.24.13 – Eugene, OR – Wandering Goat
04.25.13 – Davis, CA – Bike 4th
04.26.13 – Oakland, CA – 1234Go! Records
04.27.13 – San Francisco, CA – Thee Parkside !
04.28.13 – Santa Barbara, CA – Biko
04.29.13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Smell
04.30.13 – San Diego, CA – The Void
05.01.13 – Phoenix, AZ – Old Southern Project
05.02.13 – Flagstaff, AZ – Big House
05.03.13 – Albuquerque, NM – Gold House
05.04.13 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Opolis
05.05.13 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves
05.06.13 – Austin, TX – Beerland
05.07.13 – Houston, TX – Mangos
05.08.13 – New Orleans, LA – Stripped Mall
05.10.13 – Gainesville, FL – The Atlantic
05.11.13 – Atlanta, GA – Capsule Gallery
05.12.13 – Athens, GA – Farm 255
05.13.13 – Asheville, NC – Emerald Lounge
05.14.13 – Charlotte, NC – The Milestone Club
05.15.13 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
05.16.13 – Baltimore, MD – Golden West
05.17.13 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
05.18.13 – Allentown, PA – Soft Machine Gallery
05.19.13 – Brooklyn, NY – Death By Audio
05.20.13 – New York, NY – The Gutter +
05.21.13 – New York, NY – Live on WFMU, 3pm
05.22.13 – New Haven, CT – BAR
05.23.13 – Providence, RI – Machines With Magnets
05.24.13 – Amherst, MA – Flywheel
05.25.13 – Ithaca, NY – Lot 10
05.26.13 – Toronto, ON – Polyhaus
05.27.13 – Ann Arbor, MI – TBA
05.28.13 – Chicago, IL – Permanent Records
05.28.13 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
05.29.13 – Milwaukee, WI – Quarters
05.30.13 – Minneapolis, MN – Medusa
05.31.13 – Winnipeg, MB – Ngtv Space
06.01.13 – Minot, ND – Laughterhouse 5
06.03.13 – Calgary, AB – Palomino
06.04.13 – Missoula, MT – VFW
06.05.13 – Spokane, WA – Baby Bar
06.06.13 – Seattle, WA – The Comet
06.08.13 – Olympia, WA – The Northern! – w/ Permanent Collection, Synthetic ID, Wild Moth
+ – w/ Lawsuits
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