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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »The Unsmashable Riffbrokers by The Riffbrokers
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9 tracks | 30 minutes
Released Jul 2002
on The Riffbrokers
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:02 Bland, Predictable lyrics BUY MP3 03:02 Bland, Predictable lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:02 Bland, Predictable
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 Borrowed Shirt lyrics BUY MP3 03:42 Borrowed Shirt lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:42 Borrowed Shirt
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20th Century pop/rock twang and jangle vintage gear- barstool-hardened vocals.
Bio / Background
NOTE TO SHOPPER: Unsmashable Records wishes to let you know this title is reduced to the lowest price we can offer. The original retail copies are all gone and what is available now is a CDR in a slimline case with a copy of the original artwork.This collection contains the earliest Riffbroker collection recorded from Dec. 2000 to Oct. 2001
REVIEW:
Nick Millward, whoever the hell he is, is a barroom poet of some talent. With good ol' boy, Marlboro throated delivery, the songwriter and presumed leader of the mouthful-monikered Unsmashable Riffbrokers presents six lyrically intriguing tunes in their eponymously titled debut. "Every time I try to drown my sorrows/ you keep tossing them a line" growls Millward beginning the first track, 'Borrowed Shirt,' which contains another eloquent gem later on- "Wading in the shallow end of small talk/ like a blind dog in a busy street.
↓ more ↓" McGuinn inspired 12- string spruces up the incomprehensible 'Car Bomb' and Millward returns to near genius one and two liners in 'Bland, Predictable' ("I prefer to keep my feathers far from your tar"), 'Shot Glass Size' ("she knows my name but she won't say hi/ gives me hypothermia and watches me die") and 'Petard' ( " The Prettiest girl sits five chairs apart from a broken heart"). The closer, 'Lenient,' is a statement of down-and-out defiance: "Baby I never promised you I wouldn't do it again.'
The music? Countrified Tim-era Replacements, produced by Johnny Sangster at Egg Studios. Alex Richards' nifty electric leads propel every number, and bassist Heather Burnett and drummer Dustin Miller provide a solid honky-tonk rhythm section. Altogether, a tight, toe-tapping background for Millward's inspired rhtyme and authentic, if not exactly eardrum caressing voice. The name's gotta go however ... change it to just the Riffbrokers and this quartet will fit on a marquee very nicely - STEVE STAV, BACKFIRE, AUG. 2001
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