Our Broken Garden are a Danish

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touring keyboard player Anna Brønsted.Gil, Pablo (2012)
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History

The project has also featured guitarist/keyboardist Søren Bigum, bassists Moogie Johnson and Nis Tyrrestrup, and drummer Poul Terkildsen.Phares, Heather
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, who subsequently signed Our Broken Garden to his Bella Union label. The first release was ''The Lost Sailor'' EP in April 2008, with debut album ''When Your Blackening Shows'' following five months later. A second album, ''Golden Sea'', was released in 2010, receiving positive reviews from the likes of the

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. Retrieved 23 September 2018 Over a decade after the last record on August, 2023, the third album, ''Blind'', was released, described by Trev Elkin as "a delicate flame of an album whose warmth and light reaches into the darkest corners."Elkin, Trev (2023)
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Musical style

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's Mark Beaumont, reviewing ''Golden Sea'', described Our Broken Garden as music "for goths to have sex to", and Brønsted as "Denmark's answer to Hope Sandoval at a Viking sea burial". Chris Roberts of The Quietus described them as "like a more precious All About Eve".Roberts, Chris (2011)
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, The Quietus, 4 August 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2018 ''GAFFA'' described their music as "sweet, rounded and melancholic".

Discography

Albums

*''When Your Blackening Shows'' (2008), Bella Union *''Golden Sea'' (2010), Bella Union *''Blind'' (2023), Bella Union

EPs

*''Lost Sailor'' (2008)

Singles

*"Garden Grow" (2010), Bella Union

References

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