If rock music is about harnessing energy, prog rock is about adding poise and ornateness to the form, and post-rock is about subverting the traditional structures and arrangements, then “Broken Symmetry” seems to embrace each of those, perhaps conflicting forms, to one degree or another.
But even that complex analogy doesn’t even go halfway to explain the sound that Burton Badman makes here. There is also no small amount of indie poise, especially in the long and lush lead-in, and for all the song’s rock-leaning stance, there is plenty of pop-aware accessibility. And then there is the clever dynamic flow between the two extremes, the chiming understatement and the searing highs.
Expressing thoughts that often the things that you find compelling are also the things that are pulling you under and taking over your life, the tension and tautness inherent in this third single ahead of their forthcoming album are palpable.
If their debut album, The Opposite Way Around, established this Tel Aviv quintet both commercially and critically speaking, by the sound of “Broken Symmetry,” the new album should make for a rapid launch pad into…well, who knows? But upwards seems to be the only sonic trajectory I see for them.
This is music made by standing on the shoulders of giants; it’s just that the shoulders in question, for once, are their own!
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