Broken Rainbows by Moviola published on 2021-03-14T20:54:45Z Broken Rainbows is a milestone release carefully crafted and meticulously produced to showcase a band confident of its songs, assured in its artistry, and supportive of its members songcraft. Thematically, the 11-song album hovers over a plot of ground that’s optimistic in its despair. Album topics range from the personal to the political, showcasing each member’s unique songwriting within an overall cohesive band aesthetic. Broken Rainbows was recorded and mixed at safe distance in Housh’s home studio in Columbus in the second half of 2020. Select album standouts include “Orders Of The Day,” “Go With You,” and “Stripes And Stars.” The lonesome and pretty, “Orders Of The Day,” replete with pedal steel (courtesy of Barry Hensley, Big Back 40) feels like a lost Sweetheart of the Rodeo-era Byrds track. The lyrics are poetic and potent, one powerful passage reads: Losses always end up the same/Propping up the work that remains/They’re not striking out/Just hitting back, for themselves. “Go With You” features Bonnell on lead vocal and evokes Mazzy Star with a Crazy Horse-like eruption by song’s end. “Stripes And Stars,” is an indie-folk sing-along with dense harmony vocals, whose lyrics ultimately belies its sweet nature. As Housh says: “This seemed like a silly one, though I feel proud of it. By inverting ‘stars and stripes’ in the title, I’m saying we got a lot of things backwards.” Genre Indie Contains tracks Expat by Moviola published on 2021-03-14T20:54:42Z 02 Broken Rainbows by Moviola published on 2021-03-14T20:54:38Z 03 Go With You by Moviola published on 2021-03-14T20:54:35Z 04 Orders Of The Day by Moviola published on 2021-03-14T20:54:32Z 05 Nowhere Home by Moviola published on 2021-03-14T20:54:28Z