Malmรถ-based indie/folk/rock collective And The Broken make a confident leap with their debut album Changes, released on October 8, 2025. After dropping five EPs between 2022 and 2024, the Swedish band trades old material for an entirely new set of songs recorded between singer Tobias Boreliusโs home and their rehearsal space. The record is a heartfelt expedition across genres, melding folk warmth, alt-rock grit, and introspective lyricism, with mixing handled by Andreas Ejnarsson and Linus Lindvall.
The title track, โChanges,โ encapsulates the essence of the album musically and thematically. It opens with bursting, bounding drums and splashing cymbals that set a lively yet slightly anxious pulse. Then comes Boreliusโs deep, resonant voice, full-bodied, raw, and tinged with melancholy, singing with a weary passion that hits straight in the gut. His delivery is grounded yet emotional, like someone trying to process lifeโs shifts while already knee-deep in them. The lighter, faint backing vocals mimic his lines and create this echoing effect, which creates a mourning, melancholic, and sorrowful mood.
As the song progresses, the rhythm section grows more insistent, the guitars shimmer with restrained urgency, and the atmosphere thickens with feeling. In the bridge, Boreliusโs refrain, โAll the ways we tried to work it out, nothing seems to help,โ repeats like a desperate mantra, each line more urgent, anguished, and frayed than the last. The drums intensify, pulsing like a racing heartbeat before suddenly pulling back to reveal a hollow, open space for the loose ends to fall as they come. Then, just as the emotional weight peaks, a soaring, bittersweet, and freeing guitar solo closes the song, marking the change.
โChangesโ is a statement of transition, resilience, and raw human honesty. And The Broken, it seems, are far from breakingโtheyโre blooming.
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Review by: Naomi Joan