MORGAN CHOSNYK: VO-KILLS, GUITAR, SYNTH, PIANO, 5'8"
LOUIE HUSTED: BASS, SYNTH, GUITAR, 5'4"
DAVE RAMM: DRUMS, 5'6"
STEVE SAMUELSON: KEYBOARDS, GUITAR, 6'4"
Influences
siouxsie and the banshees
m83
my bloody valentine
the knife
smashing pumpkins
john carpenter
swans
phil spector
slowdive
portishead
mew
ennio morricone
teenage jesus and the jerks
"The Broken Knives are a local band that hits you hard with their audio onslaught. They must have knocked someone off of their feet at KEXP because they will be performing a live in-studio set today at 3pm on Jack Walters' Variety Mix. Fronted by Morgan Chosnyk, who sounds like a cross between Perry Farrell and the riot grrrl next door, The Broken Knives weave a hypnotic spell and then take you crashing down into the murky depths where it’s all clashing guitars, mechanical noises and the screams of the damned. Happy solstice to you too!"
-Andras Jones, THE EXAMINER, June 20th, 2009
"There aren't enough girls around here who can sing. I'm not talking about being able to belt it like Beyonce or Christina. I want a girl who can sing a rock and roll song with some conviction, with some emotion, but also with some tenderness. This judgement may be a bit premature, as I have not actually seen The Broken Knives live yet. But from their recordings, it would seem Seattle has found its next incarnation of a young Andrea Zollo. Their excellent song "Nailgun" hints at the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with a taste of a more gothic Pretty Girls Make Graves. Coming from such a young band, it is a very promising start."
-Jeff Kirby, THE STRANGER, July 17th, 2008
Based on the information they’ve provided, the members of Seattle quartet the Broken Knives range in height from 5’4” to 5’8”, with frontwoman Morgan Chosnyk at the tall end of the spectrum. Their stunningly good song “Frame X Frame,” however, is 100 feet tall, angry, jacked on probably every stimulant known to man, and out for blood. Based on her vitriolic, distorted (yet melodic) crooning and yowling on that tune, Chosnyk’s been compared to everyone from Andrea Zollo to Karen O; the rest of the band, meanwhile, garrotes that melody with barbed-wire guitars, feedback, and clattering goth-industrial rhythms. But they’re hardly all about noise – “Epilogue” is an absolutely engrossing, haunting, ethereal slice of shoegazery atmospherics reminiscent of late-period Slowdive. Both sides of Broken Knives’ musical personality will hopefully be represented both on the EP they’re working on and in their live set; based on what I’ve heard already, they may be towering over the Seattle music scene in no time.
-Michael Alan Goldberg, THE SEATTLE WEEKLY, December 24th, 2008
Nailgun and House With Laughing Windows recorded, mixed and mastered by Steve Refling at The Lincoln Lounge, Los Angeles, CA (c) 2009.
Frame X Frame, Glitterhoof, Making Enemies and Sincerely Those Who Hate You recorded, mixed and mastered by Kenny Husted at Silver Bee studios, Seattle, WA, (c) 2008.
Dream About A Car Wreck, Mt. Murder and Epilogue recorded by Louie Husted and Morgan Chosnyk at Silver Bee Studios, Seattle, WA & Skabenga Studios, Los Angeles, CA (c) 2009.
yeah! that would awesome to see you guys play!! well i'm helping out this guy find a place to play here. he's from L.A and wants to here here around Feb. but he wants to play a all ages show. you guys should look him up his project is called Birth! he is on my top frinds
HO HO HO Merry Christmas! I'm giving away free downloads. Wich means all my track are free to you and all the rest of my friends on myspace from 12-19-08 to 1-1-09. So have fun with them and may you have a beautiful non depressing holiday! From your good buddy Tone Poet!
I'm really loving "making enemies"... that's a pretty sharp song and the production is a lot better. Sorry I'll be in Illinois and won't be able to make your Funhouse show. You guys make me want to eat broken knives though.
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