Broken Record

Album: not on an album (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Broken Record" was the first solo track from Alex Ebert, best known as lead singer of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, since his 2011 solo album Alexander. Ebert said of the song: "Once in a while enough heartache piles up and you get that tender electric. And that wide open space is that terribly alive s--t. Terribly alive. And that's that ocean I love best. That's that adventure. That's that void-blown, step-blind trust. This song 'Broken Record' is the first of a whole thing. Not an album. An adventure. I'm leaning out. I can't speak for other people right now. Just myself."

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