| Influences | Artemis, Delphi, Osiris, kitties, penguins, nice warm cups of tea, coffee, chai, fresh baked cookies, flea markets, cupcakes, dowsing, alchemy, Jung, Ovid, Homer, Virgil, the Civil War, airships, dodge grand caravans, penguins, tarot, astrology, watching as hype, fashion and substance abuse devour those around us. Michael's amp pile, fender bandmaster and showman cabs, bedrock amps, fenders, rickenbackers, epiphones, gibsons, electro harmonix, wah pedals, fuzzboxes, phasers, delay, and assorted recorded music from far and wide (such as but not limited to the following):
13th Floor Elevators, Acetone, Acid Mothers Temple, Bardo Pond, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bedhead, Blondie, Byrds, Carter Family, Circus Lupus, Cure, Dambuilders, Dead Low Tide, Dinosaur (Jr.), Dirt Merchants, Erics Trip, Flying Saucer Attack, Fugazi, Fu Manchu, Gastr del sol, Gram Parsons, Helium, Jesus & Marychain, Jesus Lizard, Loop, Louvin Brothers, Lush, Mingus, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Ornette Coleman, Buck Owens, Polvo, Red Red Meat, Redd Kross, Ride, Rodan, Rolling Stones, Doug Sahm, Simply Saucer, Skullflower, Sleep, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, Stereolab, Sun City Girls, Superchunk, Swervedriver, Swirlies, Syd, Tom Petty (& the Heartbreakers), Tortoise, Ernest Tubbs, Tullycraft, Unwound, Uzeda, Versus, Tom Waits, Wingtip Sloat, X-Ray Specs, The Zombies, John Zorn
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| Sounds Like | lovers turned to doves ascending through the eye of the storm.
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." -Franz Kafka
Scene & Heard: Topping the Local Mix (Boston's Best of 2008)
"With Infinite Arms to Cradle the Flames" Few bands would list the obscure underground space-noise merchants Simply Saucer as an influence, but this group's amorphous membership comprises some of Boston's best underground space rockers, such as Lockgroove and Charlene. Here, Broken River Prophet makes music - cresting, crashing oceans of sensuous shoegaze sprawl - as good as any of its predecessors' tunes. -Jonathan Perry/Boston Globe
On the Download: MP3 of the Week
"After more than a decade of amorphous memberships and genre-resistant experimentation, the group have finally been “curated” into what feels like a band. On “Alec’s Vision,” from their new With Infinite Arms To Cradle the Flames, the sweet boy/girl vocals of Brilla and Deborah Warfield navigate storms of bristly guitars, but the real surprise is the overt pop — think Silversun Pickups without their fashion pouts." -Boston Phoenix
"this is solid, trend-free downer rock that somehow leaves you feeling good. Surprisingly melodic for being such dark-psych rock" -The Bostonist
"Allston's most freewheelin' purveyors of overmedicated Americana."-The Weekly Dig
The music of The Broken River Prophet incorporates (among other things) mandolin, 12-string, lap steel, boy/girl vocals, and a vast archive of effects pedals to summon elements of old timey loss, pastoral
harmonies, hypnotic drones and cataclysmic fuzz-tones.
"Broken River Prophet saved the night...they melted our faces with their high voltage rock. I mean awesome. "-xMILKx
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