Portland based artist Eddie Berman has just announced Broken English, a new album of cosmic folk rock, out on January 21st, 2022 via Nettwerk Records. He has shared the title-track which comes with the official video.
He explains: “When I wrote the song ‘Broken English,’ I was thinking about how especially isolated, rootless, and untethered people had become, and that was back in 2019, a good six months before anyone had heard the term Covid,” Berman recalls. “The past year and a half have put those feelings in hyperdrive. I think the song is also about distraction and self-obsession and the seeming commodification of absolutely everything. I never write songs like this as a condemnation of anyone; I can see these traits so clearly in myself. This song, and the whole album, is about me trying to square the circle of living a life somewhat connected to the world, to other people, and myself in such strange, atomized times.”
Berman will tour in support of the new album this winter, including a performance at the Portland Folk Festival in January. (info HERE)
Watch it below.