The Broken Family Band - You’re Like a Woman (Track & Field)
3/5
By: Charlie Potter
'You're Like a Woman', then. It starts all slow and a little bit country. This is OK - slow, I can deal with. Then - yes! - here we go, all fast, rocky and like running through a forest really fast just for the hell of it. Yeah! There just aren't enough fast, simple, generic rock songs made anymore - everyone's so bloody clever, with all their sharp guitar riffs and sharper haircuts. Whether this is intelligent or not is entirely incidental, as the song writing with these guys comes across as so natural, and if I was never to hear another note of this band in my life, I'd still on this evidence put money on at least two of these guys making music for the rest of their lives. They don't seem like complicated people at all, and that makes me want to be friends with them. I bet they're really nice guys.
If there's one thing that this band definitely get right, it's pace. Every one of these relatively diverse tracks rolls along perfectly, whatever tempo they're utilising. 'Gavin's Dead' is a funny song about dead rabbit, and if you want to hear a song that goes 'Gavin's dead, do doo do do dooo, he looks like chicken, do doo do do dooo', then go buy this single - due to illness I've listened to this song seven or eight times today and not only do I still laugh at this line and the way it's sung, I laugh more with every listen. It's also filled with other brilliant lines, and amongst all these flourishes of humour, it still manages to be a touching song about pets dying.
The sentiment of the last song is so simple, but so eloquently put that it makes a thousand similar songs seem obsolete in comparison - 'you can't go from town to town, letting every body down and not expect some of it to catch up with you.' By the end of the record you're left feeling totally jealous of this guy's seemingly effortless yet worthy song writing technique. The b-sides here are more articulate and enjoyable than the title track, and if they can keep up the diversity for an album then they'll clearly be a good band worth keeping an eye on. But somehow, the bands directness leaves me thinking that I wouldn't keep coming back to a recording over a period of, say, years, though it may be the sort of album you can listen to heavily over the course of a couple of weeks for instant gratification.
Artists in this article: The Broken Family Band
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