While reviewing New Jersey band Break Away, I
was listening to "How to Tell if Your Ribs Are Broken" at the same
time that I was tweeting with a girl who was trying to decide whether to see
the doctor about an injury.
I thought of it as a coincidence, but then I was
reading the story of the song (available on its Bandcamp page), and there are
things that fit. There were recording issues because one member thought it
didn't sound right, and then it couldn't get fixed, which was a blow to the
whole EP. At the same time, having that important song incomplete brought the
band back together.
(My person had reasons for going and not going to
the doctor, and eventually all I could do was hope she would make a good
decision.)
Little things can get much bigger and be a source of
great frustration. Sometimes it is completely outside of your control, but even
if it feels like it is becoming a disaster, that disaster doesn't have to be
permanent.
There is a fair amount of recorded material on
Bandcamp, but from dates in 2004 and 2006. Then, on Youtube, there are many
live clips recently loaded. Even if the material is older, the band activity is
new. That broken rib festered for a while, but it was not fatal.
Break Away embraces both pop punk and punk rock.
There is often a subdued feeling to the sounds that makes me want to call it
alternative punk, but that may be splitting hairs. Guitars drive and attack in
a way that is at times almost percussive, but the delivery remains musical.
Three cheers for unfinished business.
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