Our Broken Garden are a Danish

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group, essentially the solo project of

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touring keyboard player Anna Brønsted.Gil, Pablo (2012)
Our Broken Garden
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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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. Retrieved 23 September 2018Jørgensen, Steffen (2011)
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, who subsequently signed Our Broken Garden to his

Bella Union Bella Union is a British independent record label founded in 1997 by Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins. It is now run solely by Raymonde. History After releasing records with 4AD for a large part of their career, Cocteau Twin ...

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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'' (with Simon Jay Catling calling it "the most deliciously constructed orchestral-tinged dream-pop since Sigur Rós"), ''

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'', 8 October 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2018Beaumont, Mark (2010)
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. Retrieved 23 September 2018 Over a decade after the last record in 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

The

'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

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described them as "like a more precious All About Eve".Roberts, Chris (2011)
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, 4 August 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2018 ''GAFFA'' described their music as "sweet, rounded and melancholic".

Discography

Albums

*''When Your Blackening Shows'' (2008),

*''Golden Sea'' (2010),

*''Blind'' (2023),

EPs

*''Lost Sailor'' (2008)

Singles

*"Garden Grow" (2010), Bella Union

References

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