Chris Broach just released a limited edition split seven-inch with Dayton, Ohio’s The 1984 Draft via Sweet Cheetah Records and Poptek Records on May 10. Broach offers “Blood Thicker Than Honey,” which was mastered by Chris Common, formerly of These Arms Are Snakes and Le Butcherettes. Order it here.
“I was pretty sick for a few years – and that took a lot out of me,” Broach says about “Blood Thicker Than Honey.” “I wasn’t sure I could tour and sing and play like I used to, but going on tour last year for the 25th anniversary shows for “Frame & Canvas” pushed me to see that I could do it. I wanted to start writing some new stuff after that, and so I did.”
Broach announced a series of singles and splits with a variety of bands and labels this year. With a focus on guitar driven, dynamic, poly-rhythmic, and odd-timed songs that “just feel right” these are the first releases ever under Broach’s own name. The first of those singles saw release via New Granada Records/Sweet Cheetah Records on March 22. Listen to it here.
In his words, “it’s a different approach to how I’ve done it in the past where I’ll write a whole album and figure out the details in the studio and at home in bits and pieces at a time. Instead, I’m focusing on writing from the guitar – working on each song until it’s finished, delivering it, completely finished, to a label, and then starting the next one.”
Photo by Sonja Broach.
