Last month Broken Spindles aka Joel Petersen released his fourth album Kiss/Kick via the Faint’s blank.wav label. I’d been fairly familiar with Broken Spindles through his remix work of Of Montreal, AFI, and Persephone’s Bees, but the Broken Spindles on this album comes across as a whole different animal – for the better. Petersen simplifies the beats and atmospheres drummed up in each song and lets his fragile lyrics and lonely voice hold the album together. And it works. The sound still has some rhythmic bumps and scratches that stylize his remixes so well, but there’s a sentimental heart pumping beneath it. If I had to compare I’d size it up to a rougher version of The Notwist or a twisted version of the Postal Service or a tamed version of the Faint…you get the idea.
mp3: Broken Spindles – The Moist Red Mess
mp3: Broken Spindles – We All Want To Fit In
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