Soulsavers mastermind Rich Machin first imagined the three-albums-old project as a revolving door for various genres and talents. But once Mark Lanegan sang on 2007's It's Not How Far You Fall, It's How You Land, Machin, like Queens of the Stone Age or Isobel Campbell before him, found a brief collaboration blossomed into a long-term affair, and Lanegan's distinctive growl graces eight of Broken’s 14 tracks.
Machin and Lanegan are joined by Mike Patton, Richard Hawley, Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized and twice by Will Oldham (once as a songwriter — a cover of his "You Will Miss Me When I Burn" is lovely — and once as a singer). Forget about Monsters of Folk; this is the Monsters of Bruised Orchestral Psych-Goth Rock, with vocalist Rosa Agostino intermittently quelling the testosterone and pointing Soulsavers to its downtempo origins. Broken was recorded in Los Angeles as Machin was seeking a Laurel Canyon vibe. Rather than a self-satisfied singer-songwriter tone that move suggests, Broken updates the L.A. of the late Gene Clark's No Other and Neil Young's On the Beach for the cut-and-paste generation.
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