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BROKEN SPEAR (2016-present)
Broken Spear is the recording project of Seb Choe.
After a series of shoegaze, synth-pop, and drag projects in Seattle and New York, they donned the Broken Spear moniker to release “True” (Pedicure Records, 2017), a sample-heavy electronic album described by Seattle Weekly as a “hyper-aggressive music salad... stretched to the point of abstraction or made into a kind of overwhelming pointillism.”
“Truth Pieces” (Business Casual, 2019) followed, a variety cassette of genre experiments, accompanied by videos with “myriad recording formats to match the equally complex selection of sonic processes and practices” (AQNB). They proceeded to release a trio of pop singles with Vera Mist (“Grayzone”, “Poolside”, “Spark”).
Spear then shared “Dragonflies” with Sluurpee (Noumenal Loom, 2021), with remixes from PC Music’s Holly Waxwing and Sunspeaker, followed by “Pantomime” (Noumenal Loom, 2022) an EP whose five songs shuffled the Pacific Northwest guitars of their adolescence with a palette of cold synths, club rhythms and pop vocals.
In 2024, they return with “Ambient at Heart / Turnaround”, two confessional piano pop singles that set aside guitars and guest vocalists in order to spotlight Spear’s own voice. The former uses minimal arrangement to deliver maximal lyrics, while the latter uses harmonic density to repeatedly recontextualize a single word.
BROKEN SPEAR - AMBIENT AT HEART
2024, SINGLE (SELF-RELEASED)
Stickers: Store
Purchase: Nina Protocol
Track Breakdowns: Youtube
BROKEN SPEAR - PANTOMIME
2022, EP (NOUMENAL LOOM)
Liner Notes - Pantomime
BROKEN SPEAR - LIVE AT MEAT SHOT IDYLLIC
2021, VIDEO PERFORMANCE (NOUMENAL LOOM)
DRAGONFLIES
2021, SINGLE, MUSIC VIDEO, REMIXES (NOUMENAL LOOM)
1004
2019, SINGLE, VIDEO (COEVAL MAGAZINE)
PREMIERE + INTERVIEW ON COEVAL MAGAZINE
Video by Mays Smithwick
After a series of shoegaze, synth-pop, and drag projects in Seattle and New York, they donned the Broken Spear moniker to release “True” (Pedicure Records, 2017), a sample-heavy electronic album described by Seattle Weekly as a “hyper-aggressive music salad... stretched to the point of abstraction or made into a kind of overwhelming pointillism.”
“Truth Pieces” (Business Casual, 2019) followed, a variety cassette of genre experiments, accompanied by videos with “myriad recording formats to match the equally complex selection of sonic processes and practices” (AQNB). They proceeded to release a trio of pop singles with Vera Mist (“Grayzone”, “Poolside”, “Spark”).
Spear then shared “Dragonflies” with Sluurpee (Noumenal Loom, 2021), with remixes from PC Music’s Holly Waxwing and Sunspeaker, followed by “Pantomime” (Noumenal Loom, 2022) an EP whose five songs shuffled the Pacific Northwest guitars of their adolescence with a palette of cold synths, club rhythms and pop vocals.
In 2024, they return with “Ambient at Heart / Turnaround”, two confessional piano pop singles that set aside guitars and guest vocalists in order to spotlight Spear’s own voice. The former uses minimal arrangement to deliver maximal lyrics, while the latter uses harmonic density to repeatedly recontextualize a single word.
BROKEN SPEAR - AMBIENT AT HEART
2024, SINGLE (SELF-RELEASED)
Stickers: Store
Purchase: Nina Protocol
Track Breakdowns: Youtube
BROKEN SPEAR - PANTOMIME
2022, EP (NOUMENAL LOOM)
Liner Notes - Pantomime
BROKEN SPEAR - LIVE AT MEAT SHOT IDYLLIC
2021, VIDEO PERFORMANCE (NOUMENAL LOOM)
DRAGONFLIES
2021, SINGLE, MUSIC VIDEO, REMIXES (NOUMENAL LOOM)
1004
2019, SINGLE, VIDEO (COEVAL MAGAZINE)
PREMIERE + INTERVIEW ON COEVAL MAGAZINE
Video by Mays Smithwick
TRUTH PIECES
2019, ALBUM (BUSINESS CASUAL)
TRUTH PIECES, a 12-track variety tape, features a future pop diva, a Daughtry-esque look into “My So Called Life”, new age anime soundtracks, industrial punk/shoegaze fantasies and a Carly Rae/Bieber-sampled hip-hop burner. Released by eclectic electronic cassette label Business Casual.
Over the course of two years, TRUTH PIECES assembled 16 collaborators (vocalists, 3D artists, vocalists, audio engineers) to craft a sequel to TRUE (Pedicure Records, 2016)
Art by Galen Tipton.
VIDEO PREMIERE: ‘25 Legs feat. Perla Haney-Jardine’ (AQNB)
SINGLE PREMIERE: ‘Silent Energy feat. Sluurpee’ (space-ship)
TRACK FEATURE: ‘Samplo feat. Trill Mah’ (Electric Sound of Joy)
CASSETTE TAPE AVAILABLE AT BUSINESS CASUAL
Truth Pieces Lyrics
Truth Pieces Liner Notes
TRUE
2016, ALBUM (PEDICURE RECORDS)
“a hyper-aggressive music salad... stretched to the point of abstraction or made into a kind of overwhelming pointillism.”
ALBUM REVIEW ON SEATTLE WEEKLY
NIGHTCORE VERSION (Pedicure Records)
“True” Music Video by Kevin Roark