Brave New Broken Hearts Club - Not What We Call Love (2021)

“There is still beauty in this world, shelter from the whirlwind, gravity to ground me, love so I sleep soundly... in the chaos.”

Brave New Broken Hearts Club is the vehicle for north London born songwriter and producer Neil Phillimore. Neil’s writing and producing skills in recent years have been put to running a not-for-profit organisation songwriting and recording for the wellbeing and mentoring of youth. The origins of this project were simply the exercising of that same power of creativity for the sake of wellbeing in his own life.

Take a sniffter of Billy Bragg’s London vocal styling, the tiniest pinch of Damon Albarn’s lower register, a dash of Richard Hawley croon (southern style)… an acoustic, a tremolo guitar and a good old glug of classic songwriting aesthetic. Arrange on a generous bed of beautiful backing vocals and harmonies from the exquisite Peckham folk singer Pearl Fish, et voila. Whether all theses flavours come through for you or not, Brave New Broken Hearts Club songs are lyrically prosaic, emotionally rich, hopeful, warm and heartfelt.