STILL SINGLE

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April 7, 2011

Broken Water – Peripheral Star 12” EP (Perennial)

Olympia’s Broken Water has been on a tear for the past year, with a curiously strong debut full-length and a single that consummated their relationship with turbulent noise. They lead off in 2011 with five new songs and a big step up across the board for production and presentation. Deathreat’s Stan Wright gives Peripheral Star a boost in depth and clarity of the band’s sound that might not have been needed before, but it’s touches like this that give the impression of a band getting familiar with its sound but not conceding to comfort. The group’s touchstones start to melt here as well, the wayward allure of their earlier material taking a knee for bolder tropes to come into focus. The lead-off title track shows those secret Goth/SY connections fading away in the direction of deafening and shy British shoegaze, while “Heartstrings” rips the posters off the wall altogether in a furious storm of noise, haze, melody and consonance (“Come on chaos/Come on Kierkegaard” … man that is perfect). It’s their best song to date, and shows how monstrous this group could be in the live setting. That Broken Water chooses to close this record with two long, slow showstoppers only solidifies that notion even further. Their music makes me feel like a teenager again, nervous and twitching and ALIVE. Please check them out on tour, which they’re out on right now, in the fourth month of this year of our dark lord, 2011. (http://www.perennialdeath.com)
(Doug Mosurock)

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