Tony Bello Jr.,
Brian Murray, Robert Bell,
Pete Marshall, Isaac Stanford, Dave Doggett, Jim Callan, Justin Kolb, Nate Fleming, Fred Stucky, Tony Jeeter & Steve Halin. Not all at the same time a-course.
Fans of the Handsome Family and 16 Horsepower will find this record a dark, bleak place. That, though, is a good thing. Philadelphia's Broken Prayer create beautifully bleak American Gothic. Narratives about the darkness of the heart, suicide, and a laundry list of other equally grim topics. The band weaves hypnotic, droning, cathartic rhythms around this somber and sinister tales. Peter Marshall (camera man/singer), Tony Bello (trucker/drums), Brian Murray (preparator/bass), and Issac Stanford (school teacher/pedal steel) play these songs and stories out as if they are compelled to confess their darkest fears. -- Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music
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Our first review (translated from dutch). Once I find a better translator I'll post that. Written by Marc Nolis, MazzMuzikaS Free-Zine98bis, Belgium.
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High Lonesome meets American Gothic on The Broken Prayers bleak and wind-swept recording, Crow; and right now, deep in south Philadelphia where a cluster of bands all share a dirty little space run by dirty little people, The Broken Prayers are working on their next release.
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Reviews:
Every Friday morning one of this first things I do is head to Miles of Music to check out the “It’s A Cracker” selections for the week. Every now and then there will be a band whose samples just jump up and and grab me and I have to buy the cd. Such was the case with The Broken Prayers. I was placing the order for their new cd, Crow, before the end of the first song.
There is very little information on the internets about Philadelphia’s The Broken Prayers, but they appear to be Pete Marshall and a revolving cast of players (a la Magnolia Elect. Co.) that consist of; Tony Bello Jr, Brian Murray, Fred Stucky Jr., Robert Bell, Jim Callan, Justin Colb, Tony Collins and Scott Danzer. I had thrown the album onto my iPod for the flight up to Boston, so when my flight left Tampa around 6:15 in the morning I qued up the cd for some listening while I slept. Much like when I heard the sound samples on M.O.M., I was immediately drawn into the sparse and minimal Gothic Americana sound the band possesses. Really wanting to capture my initial impressions of the cd, I scribbled the following into my notepad:
Lonely and sparse
Sounds like they set up a mic on one end of the room and played the songs on the other then mixed it with oodles of reverb….lo-fi as hell but it works for these songs.
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Think what you would do if Johnny Cash was born 35 years ago. Desierto, pedal steels fantasmales y actitud punk para el disco de raices del verano. Desert, pedal steels and ghostly punk attitude for the best roots disc of the summer.
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This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
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Hello, after an unfortunate hiatus, the reasons for which are probably best not gone into here, we finally have some new music on the AUK MySpace site. For your listening pleasure this month we offer Nathan Oliver, Conrad Ford, the irrepressible Todd Snider and the delightful Beccy Owen. Don't forget too, for those of you within striking distance of Leicester, Electric Dustbowl 2 on 19 September.
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