Our Broken Garden – When Your Blackening Shows

Essentially, Our Broken Garden is Anna Brønsted, a Danish singer-songwriter. Together with her band, she becomes Our Broken Garden and her first full-length release consists of this, When Your Blackening Shows. It's the most boring album I've ever heard.Be careful not to read too much into that. The property of being boring is as subjective as any other we talk about, and I can definitely see a small minority of people getting some, even a lot, of enjoyment out of it. The trouble is, this album is likely to be far too lo-fi, incessantly slow, and bloated for the vast majority of listeners to glean anything significant from it.It's all very sparse. The tracks rumble along on lazy, plodding, gentle drums with oh-so-subtle washes of electric guitar oozing around in the background, as Brønsted sings in her breathy voice. She's a very capable singer, but it just feels as though she's got nothing to work with here - virtually non-existent accompaniment, and dull, uninspiring lyrics. She also sounds exactly the same on every song - the same mournful, regretful, depressing lilt forced upon her by this unremittingly down-tempo songs. The songs always feel like they're far too long and are outstaying their welcome, even if they are comparatively short. All this means that listening to When Your Blackening Shows can be something of a trial, or perhaps more accurately, a sentence. It's difficult to tell one track from another, so homogeneous is their style, tone, and sheer lack of interest - you're constantly begging for something, anything interesting to happen, half-expecting them to fly into a Def Leppard cover or something.I maintain that there is a probably a specific mood you could enjoy this in. But personally, I don't think I've ever been in such a mood. In judging whether you need this, you should ask yourself, have you? 16%Our Broken Garden on MySpace