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01. Bromide - Tale To Tell
02. Bromide - I'll Never Learn
03. Bromide - Two Song Slot
04. Bromide - The Guide
05. Bromide - Magic Coins
06. Bromide - Ancient Rome
07. Bromide - Futurist Shore Leave
08. Bromide - Postcard From Leipzig
09. Bromide - Dancing Barefoot
10. Bromide - Always Now
11. Bromide - Woke Up
ARTIST
TITLE
I Woke Up
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SCRATCHY 050CD SCRATCHY 050CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/6/2018

In 2015, London-based Bromide got their electric shoes back on with new bass player Hugo Wilkinson joining long-term collaborators, singer-guitarist Simon Berridge, and drummer Ed Lush. Again, stuffed full of pop delights struggling to reach the three-minute mark -- such as "Two Song Slot", the story of a disastrous open-mic encounter turning into a last-minute victory and "Tale To Tell", a conscience-pricked near perfect example of the Bromide sound written in the studio while recording -- the album also sees the band begin to stretch their wings a bit. "Magic Coins" has an unexpected almost drum and bass inspired rhythm track while title track "I Woke Up" is a six-minute Doorsian odyssey. Elsewhere Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" is given a thorough work out, plus there are contributions from the rhythm section with Lush writing the music for both "I'll Never Learn" and "Always Now", while Wilkinson provides a breath of fresh air in proceedings with the instrumental "Futurist Shore Leave". With I Woke Up, Bromide have firmly fixed the songwriter onto the band and vice-a-versa. As one recent twitter live review summed up "They rock hard but the tunes come first: like Elvis Costello fronting Dinosaur Jr". Ain't gonna argue with that.