October 25th 2010 will see the New Zealand release of Let Me Come Home, the new studio album by Scotland’s Broken Records. 
The follow-up to 2009’s debut Until The Earth Begins To Part, Let Me Come Home started out as a series of sketches and song fragments in frontman Jamie Sutherland’s kitchen, later taking form in demo sessions at an old distillery grain store in the Highlands. Recorded and produced by Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Delgados, Belle & Sebastian) at his COD Studio in Glasgow with artwork conceived by Vaughan Oliver at v23, Let Me Come Home will be released on CD, LP and digital formats.
Speaking about the inspiration behind their second album, Jamie Sutherland says:
“An idea started to form about the direction of the new record based on several films and albums that I became gradually obsessed with at that time. Watching the widescreen emptiness of films Badlands, Rumble Fish and East of Eden, as well as records such as Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads, Calexico’s Feast of Wire and REM’s early back catalogue all became a strong influence on the direction of the new songs. It was also during this time that the lyrical theme of the record started to take shape, thinking about what was going on around me in the form of fears and concerns over making relationships work, and a need for security.”
Opening album track, ‘A Leaving Song’ is also available to download as a free MP3 from www.4ad.com/news/announce-new-alb-1/
‘A Darkness Rises Up’ will be released as a single on October 18th
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