A highlight on this year’s How To Replace It, Love Breaks Down is the album’s emotional centerpiece. An intense, harrowing breakup and family strife resulted in some of frontman and leader Tom Barman’s rawest, most confessional writing yet. It was, he says, a “pretty dramatic time – very personal, very painful.” But the album doesn’t scan as sad or downbeat; it’s quite the opposite. “It’s defiant,” he says. “And has some distance. It’s not just the raw emotion speaking – there’s the hindsight and introspection that comes after all that. And room for forgiveness.”
All this comes to a head on Love Breaks Down, a classically beautiful, elegiac ballad with a razor-sharp edge; “When love breaks down / It don't hang around” is as brutally honest a lyric as he’s ever written.
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