Interview: Jamie Sutherland on the new Broken Records album, What We Know

In December 2016, Edinburgh’s Broken Records marked their tenth birthday as a band by returning to the scene of their first gig, Bannerman’s bar on the city’s Cowgate, not to play one of their classic early albums as seems to be the way nowadays, but to celebrate modestly and musically in the company of friends and family. According to frontman Jamie Sutherland, Broken Records don’t have a classic early album anyway. “Nobody makes their best records at the first or second shot,” he says. “With the first album [2009’s Until The Earth Begins to Part] we tried to knock it out the park straight away and be world beaters and, to a certain extent, people either bought into that or it really grated with them.”