Listening to…

Broken Records, Let Me Come Home
Been sitting on this one for a while, probably because it’s so morose that I was waiting for bleak midwintertime in order to appreciate it properly. I’d wonder if it was being misplayed at 16 rather than 33rpm on the turntable, except it’s a download. Broken Records, indeed—more like Flattened Dark Breakable Objects. Titles go into the self-parodic stratosphere: “I Used to Dream,” “You Know You’re Not Dead,” “A Darkness Rises Up.” Music to suffocate to.