The Broken West

The Broken West’s full-length Merge Records debut, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On, was full of Big Star-esque honeyed charm and sunny hooks, but it seems to have embraced a more recent past on its 2008 follow-up, Now Or Heaven, with synth textures and programmed beats that recall mid-’90s Britpop.

Updated 03/26/2009