It’s hard to tell if a given song by Broken Hope is doing anything particularly interesting, but hell, it sure sounds like it’s taking the world by storm.
Initially, “kill yr boyfriend” struck me as yummy bubblegummy Hot Damn! with cutesy-pie squealing and “yeah, yeah, yeah!” male choruses to round out the sound.
Losing two members after last year’s raw and melodic Better Days, Welt returns with a darker, grittier punk pop sound. Still as catchy and singable as ever.
Like Origin of Species, a haphazard genealogy littered with low-fi fossils of noise-folk, folk-noise, softcore punk, slide-rule guitar, gut-busting silliness.
Toby Marks travels the globe picking up exotic sound samples from spiritual chants and instrumentals. He then sets them to imaginative electronic compositions.
Hip hop scratching and Orbital-style machine musings move dub into the future, while analog recording and multivox echo chamber preserve the link to dub’s past.