Broadfield Marchers – The Invevitable Continuing
The Broadfield Marchers are a band out of Louisville, Kentucky who were previously on the label Secretly Canadian with their past release “When the Lifted Connive”, this time with Rainbow Quartz a much less recognizable record label, it seems as they are a band without much fanfare at the moment (11K myspace views). Despite this, their latest album The Inevitable Continuing contains a whopping 19 tracks. The amount of tracks is a bit misleading as there are only 3 tracks over the 3 minute mark.
It’s a bit of different approach, writing 19 pop songs and showing off your creativity in these tiny tracks is definitely a less popular strategy compared to few songs that are super long. It’s not a bad idea in my opinion, aren’t more and more people getting ADHD from all the constant things thrown at us and multitasking? I know it suits me well then 12 minute tracks.
The Broadfield Marchers like to move on the next thing quickly, almost too quickly. There are a lot of quality songs on this album and I personally wish some tracks were longer then around 2 minutes. A lot of songs feel like they are uncompleted and in that sense I am shedding a tear. They are very talented, they have a great sense of what works and can forge a great short pop song. They know how to work with simplicity and not overdoing it (ehh) mixed with great vocals.
At the end of the day, I really like the Broadfield Marchers but instead of being all over the place, they would be served in concentrating on “finishing” some songs because a lot of the songs have massive potential. I undoubtedly believe they have the talent to do so.
It’s just painful to see that some of my favorite songs aren’t even 2 minute longs and I’m sure I would like them if they extended the rest of the album as a lot of the songs I whole heartedly dig.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
I really like the Broadfield Marchers even if this gets an average score. Until they focus their energy on lesser songs, I don’t know if many people will take them seriously. They are great nonetheless and enjoyed listened to the album the past week.
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P.S. I think Killbeat Music is one of the best PR companies. I don’t think talking about a PR company would go well at the top of a review so here it is at the bottom. They seem to have a certain ‘quality’ with the music they promote even if it is mainly unknown Canadian talent and in this case I found it strikingly odd that they were promoting a band out of Louisville, Kentucky but I guess when it comes down to it, it was about the quality not where
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