Broken Hearts Are Blue

Kalamazoo, MI · 1995–1997, 2018–present
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Originally established in late 1995 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Formed by veterans of the Michigan hardcore scene, including members of Current, Ordination of Aaron, and Vine. Kalamazoo was a mixed-bill town with a wildly eclectic scene, and the band came out of that environment.

Their 1997 debut album, The Truth About Love, was released on Caulfield Records. The cover art drew from the visual aesthetic of jazz labels like Blue Note, Impulse, and Prestige rather than the punk scene. The band broke up after the album’s release when Gage moved to Denver and Wood moved to Columbus for graduate school.

The band regrouped in 2018 to record three previously unwritten songs from 1997, plus a new one. The experience spurred the geographically dislocated four-piece to continue writing from their homes in Los Angeles, Alameda, Minneapolis, and Kalamazoo. They released the seven-song Goodbye Bunny Smith in 2020 and the twelve-track Dark Whimsy and Soft Surrealism in 2021 on Council Records.

Their album Meeting Themselves was recorded in the summer of 2023 at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studio in Oakland, with Meric Long (The Dodos) as engineer and producer.

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