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FOURTH FLOOR COLLAPSE - Books With Broken Spines

Books with Broken Spines is the third album from Fourth Floor Collapse – an album the band describe as encapsulating their personal and collective experiences from the past couple of years into ten tight pieces of music.

There are themes of insecurity, personal trauma, transience, world affairs, and even fashion that have been woven into the creation of this album. But ten distinct cross sections have been captured which, when listened to as a whole, allow a reconstruction of the hope, frustration and melancholy that are felt, not only by the creators of the music, but by every person who has ever experienced joy or disappointment.

The album title evokes the complexity of emotion behind the moment when you have to decide whether a book you have loved should be shelved (though unreadable) for nostalgia or thrown to the fire. In more general terms, what do you do with something you’ve loved so intensely that you find it beyond repair.

Books with Broken Spines is an album you can listen to from beginning to end without losing interest for a moment. It’s the kind of album you’ll want to put on again and again for years to come.

Fourth Floor Collapse shifted their base from Perth to Melbourne in 2005 to give them opportunity to play their music to more people, more often. Tucked under their collective wings they brought with them the makings of their latest record, Books with Broken Spines.

The album was recorded at Blackbird Studios in Perth shortly before the relocation. Many records claim to be a journey but this genuinely is. You’ll want to immerse yourself in the album as a whole and after forty minutes you’ll have come full circle and be ready to put it on again and again.

The album starts with the out-of-control carousel in ‘Spin the Wheel’, then sweeps through pop gems like ‘Occupation’ and 'Ashes’ and rounds out with the choirs and massiveness of ‘Drink ‘til You Drown’ – the first single off the album – and winds up with the beautiful epic of ‘Winter’s End’.

Like the band, the album is evocative, emotional and complex. However, the music remains accessible while maintaining a depth that will keep you discovering its intricacies for years to come. Books with Broken Spines is the third album for Fourth Floor Collapse, released February 2006.

To date, the band has received extensive national airplay with tracks such as Made Believe, Sun, Stories Unglued, and Night Under Lights from their first two albums and regularly tour Australia. They have supported international acts such as The Tea Party, Badly Drawn Boy, Counting Crows, Teenage Fanclub and Turin Brakes.

For more information on Fourth Floor Collapse, visit fourthfloorcollapse.com or myspace.com/fourthfloorcollapse

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