David Thomas Broughton

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Ambiguity 00:00 Tools
Execution 00:00 Tools
Unmarked Grave 00:00 Tools
Ever Rotating Sky 00:00 Tools
Walking Over You 00:00 Tools
Ain't Got No Sole 00:00 Tools
Nature 00:00 Tools
River Lay 00:00 Tools
Apologies 00:00 Tools
Perfect Louse 00:00 Tools
One Day 00:00 Tools
Weight Of My Love 00:00 Tools
Potential Of Our Progeny 00:00 Tools
Staying True 00:00 Tools
Electricity 00:00 Tools
Onwards We Trudge 00:00 Tools
Joke 01:57 Tools
Circle is Never Complete 00:00 Tools
Negativity 00:00 Tools
Gracefully Silent 00:00 Tools
I Don't Want to Believe You 00:00 Tools
Interlude 1 00:00 Tools
The Heart You Don't Look Out For 00:00 Tools
Why Are You Not Here 00:00 Tools
River Lay (live practice session) 00:00 Tools
So Much Sin to Forgive 00:00 Tools
Jolly (Interlude) 00:00 Tools
No Great Shakes 00:00 Tools
Look What I Have Done 00:00 Tools
Fisted Hand 00:00 Tools
River Outlet 00:00 Tools
Beast 00:00 Tools
Liberazione 00:00 Tools
Silent Arrow 00:00 Tools
Dots 00:00 Tools
Anchovies 00:00 Tools
Concrete Statement 00:00 Tools
Words of Art 00:00 Tools
The Window 00:00 Tools
River Lay (live rehearsal) 00:00 Tools
Not So Cruel (Live At The Holy Trinity Church, Leeds) 00:00 Tools
I Close My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Electricity - Electrix Mix 00:00 Tools
Not So Cruel - Live At The Holy Trinity Church, Leeds 00:00 Tools
Gulf 00:00 Tools
Electricity (Electrix Mix) 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack, Pt.1 00:00 Tools
In Service 00:00 Tools
River 00:00 Tools
Poison 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
The Assurance 00:00 Tools
A Man to Call My Own 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack Pt.1 00:00 Tools
Sliding the Same Way 00:00 Tools
Been a While 00:00 Tools
Words of Art (feat. Aidan Moffat) 00:00 Tools
Yorkshire Fog 00:00 Tools
The Promise 00:00 Tools
Plunge of the Dagger 00:00 Tools
Woodwork 00:00 Tools
Unshaven Boozer 00:00 Tools
River (feat. Sam Amidon) 00:00 Tools
Oh, Nurse Of Mine 00:00 Tools
Beast Without You (feat. Beth Orton) 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack Pt.2 00:00 Tools
Beast Without You 00:00 Tools
Plunge of the Dagger (feat. Luke Drozd) 00:00 Tools
Ain't Got No Sole - David John Broughton 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Perfect Louse - David John Broughton 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Electricity (Electrix Mix) - David John Broughton 00:00 Tools
Rock Bottom Riser 00:00 Tools
Something In Your Drive 00:00 Tools
Mug 00:00 Tools
My Ageing Heart is Slowly Killed 00:00 Tools
All Your Women Things (Smog) 00:00 Tools
Nowt But Trouble 00:00 Tools
Dam the River 00:00 Tools
Instrumental 11 00:00 Tools
St Patrick 00:00 Tools
Heavy Past and Violent History 00:00 Tools
Hero (Enrique Iglesias Cover) 00:00 Tools
So Much Sin To Forgive (Demo) 00:00 Tools
Problems 00:00 Tools
Not So Cruel 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Rock Bottom Riser (Smog Cover) 00:00 Tools
Another Hole 00:00 Tools
Ain’t Got No Sole 00:00 Tools
Unmarked Grave (Extract) 00:00 Tools
Ever Rotating Sky (Edit) 00:00 Tools
01 david thomas broughton - ambiguity 00:00 Tools
hope there's someone 00:00 Tools
B-Side 00:00 Tools
Side A 00:00 Tools
It's Not so Hard 00:00 Tools
A-Side 00:00 Tools
Lord Don't Use Cusswords 00:00 Tools
No-one Ever 00:00 Tools
Bleeding Edit 00:00 Tools
Another Hole (Ukulele) 00:00 Tools
One Day (Live) 00:00 Tools
david thomas broughton 00:00 Tools
Side B 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
East Coast 00:00 Tools
Lawn as White as Driven Snow 00:00 Tools
02 david thomas broughton - execution 00:00 Tools
David Thomas Broughton - live on dublab (06.21.06) 00:00 Tools
04 david thomas broughton - walking over you 00:00 Tools
Precious Thing 00:00 Tools
Futile Pisces 00:00 Tools
Dynamite 00:00 Tools
interlude 00:00 Tools
Another Hole (Demo) 00:00 Tools
lord don't use cusswords (live@red deer club mcr) 00:00 Tools
03 david thomas broughton - unmarked grave 00:00 Tools
Something In Your Drive/You Got Lucky 00:00 Tools
Feedback Beats Silence 00:00 Tools
Cloying Turd 00:00 Tools
It Breaks 00:00 Tools
Hurting 00:00 Tools
The Greatest 00:00 Tools
05 david thomas broughton - ever rotating sky 00:00 Tools
That I Have To Turn Out 00:00 Tools
Execution/Walking Over You 00:00 Tools
Good King Wenceslas 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack 00:00 Tools
I Don't Wanna Grow Up 00:00 Tools
it's hard 00:00 Tools
Last Christmas (version 1) 00:00 Tools
Titel 01 00:00 Tools
So Much Sin To Forgive (Extended Handclaps) 00:00 Tools
The Greatest (Cat Power) 00:00 Tools
Ain't Got No Live Sole 00:00 Tools
Weather 00:00 Tools
I Don't Feel Like Dancing 00:00 Tools
Latetude 1 00:00 Tools
expressions of love (ambiguous) 00:00 Tools
Struggle 00:00 Tools
Interlude 2 00:00 Tools
Age Of Giving 00:00 Tools
VietNam Malaria Nostalgia/Stones Throw From Heaven 00:00 Tools
I'm On Fire 00:00 Tools
Weight of My Love (With 7 Hertz) 00:00 Tools
Bleeding Love 00:00 Tools
You Got Lucky/Weight Of My Love 00:00 Tools
expressions of love (memorial) 00:00 Tools
The Complete Guide to Insufficiency 00:00 Tools
Untitled/Dance Routine 00:00 Tools
I'm On Fire/So Much Sin To Forgive 00:00 Tools
01 Ambiguity 00:00 Tools
02 Execution 00:00 Tools
expressions of love (divided) 00:00 Tools
Untitled 2 00:00 Tools
Titel 03 00:00 Tools
Titel 02 00:00 Tools
River Lay/Nature 00:00 Tools
Rock Bottom Riser (Smog) 00:00 Tools
Gulf (feat. Jordan Geiger) 00:00 Tools
Aint Got No Sole 00:00 Tools
Untitled 1 00:00 Tools
03 Unmarked Grave 00:00 Tools
Our Love 00:00 Tools
Nature (feat. Viking Moses & Golden Ghost) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Scissor Sisters) 00:00 Tools
Instrumental 11+ 00:00 Tools
River Lay [Live][Live Practice Session] 00:00 Tools
05 Ever Rotating Sky 00:00 Tools
Last Christmas (version 2) 00:00 Tools
04 Walking Over You 00:00 Tools
Leavin It All Behind 00:00 Tools
Perfect Louise 00:00 Tools
Not So Cruel (with 7 Hertz) [Live At Holy Trinity Church, Leeds] 00:00 Tools
01 david thomas broughton - am 00:00 Tools
Disturbance 00:00 Tools
The Holly And The Ivy 00:00 Tools
Instrumental II 00:00 Tools
Hero 00:00 Tools
david thomas broughton - ambiguity 00:00 Tools
The Rage 00:00 Tools
06 The heart you don't look out for 00:00 Tools
Titel 04 00:00 Tools
Drifting Snow 00:00 Tools
Another hole demo 00:00 Tools
Crippling Lack Part 2 00:00 Tools
Dreams 00:00 Tools
Don't Leave Me (Jacques Brel) 00:00 Tools
live on dublab 00:00 Tools
04 Interlude 1 00:00 Tools
Higher (The Saturdays) 00:00 Tools
Anchovies (alternative) 00:00 Tools
07 ain't got no sole 00:00 Tools
Climax (Usher) 00:00 Tools
Be My Boy 00:00 Tools
Interlude 3 00:00 Tools
Beast Without You/Unmarked Grave 00:00 Tools
Execution [clip] - David Thomas Broughton 00:00 Tools
Hungry Heart 00:00 Tools
Take the edge off 00:00 Tools
i don't want to belive you 00:00 Tools
Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Miscellaneous Introduction 00:00 Tools
13 look what i have done 00:00 Tools
10 one day 00:00 Tools
03 david thomas broughton - un 00:00 Tools
12 so much sin to forgive 00:00 Tools
bleeding love (leona lewis cover) 00:00 Tools
05 I don't want to believe you 00:00 Tools
A Different Corner (George Michael) 00:00 Tools
The Locomotion (Little Eva) 00:00 Tools
Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley) 00:00 Tools
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David Thomas Broughton's off-kilter folk is all about the slow-burn; coaxing melodies and oddly gorgeous vocals from a shuffling music box of acoustic guitars, looping pedals and bargain-bin drum machines. The result is tooth-achingly gorgeous. He has been lumped into the 'freak-folk' enclosure and in doing so shines amid the offerings of those traditionally proffered under this soft-centered appellation. Taking handsome dollops of Nick Drake, John Fahey and Antony and the Johnsons, Broughton's quixotic touch is writ large above all his compositions. Broughton leads us in through some tip-toeing guitar loops that gradually unfurl into a pink-hued vocal that recalls Antony and the Johnson's in its stark, alien delivery, whilst coming across as appealingly naïve, representing that fabled song-writing territory where the innovative does not overshadow the enjoyable - but instead coexists. Or something. David Thomas Broughton’s talent has garnered praise with the passing years. The way Broughton merges endless processed guitar loops with his own and very personal voice –something between Odetta and Tim Buckley- throws light upon a unique sound. After astonishing audiences at the most recent edition of fave Spanish festivals Primavera Sound or Tanned Tin, Acuarela introduces an exclusive mini-album that the English musician has recorded with Leeds experimental group 7 Hertz. Layer after layer of sound, David Thomas Broughton has defined himself as a name to keep in mind, song after song, test after test. Challenging the limits of his own music, this Leeds singer songwriter has toyed at stretching a singular discourse bound to the well-worn parameters of folk and electronics, combining influences and just by following intuition and taste, enveloping it all with a warm and velvet voice. Without a doubt challenge has been a constant in his career. The Complete Guide To Insufficiency (Birdwar/Plug research, 2005) was a debut aimed at demonstrating Broughton’s live performance, recorded in one sole take in a church and barely intervening through mixing, one could even hear the sound of pedals being changed and other details that could only be appreciated in a live show. This atmosphere that suits the record so well, somewhere between narcotic and chaotic, has accompanied his next effort It’s In There Somewhere (Birdwar, 2007), though channeled through song format as we know it. 7 Hertz are a Leeds band dedicated to improvisation within a strange mixture of folk, classical, jazz and any other label that you can slap the term free on. David and the band hardly had time to greet each other before embarking on a recording session in a cold church in Leeds on a winter afternoon (a scene much like the one Broughton’s first record was drawn in). Every song would enjoy only one take, so there would never be any previous rehearsals between the parties involved. Throughout the first part of the album David performed a song he had in mind, around this the band built walls of sound. But for the second part of the record was created as it was performed for the first time, improvising lyrics and casting vocals towards the temple’s vaults, creating and unimaginable acoustic. The result is a record full of strength and experimentation where sound contracts and expands, always floating, carried over currents towards the impossible whirlpool that is “River Outlet”, the twenty-two minutes with which the session ends, where Broughton and 7 Hertz shyly fade, stretching their music until the very instant in which it separates.. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.