Taste Test: Karen & the Sorrows find the humor in a ‘Guaranteed Broken Heart’
The Americana band sifts through the rubble of a breakup for humor on a new song.
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There are few bonafide guarantees in this life. We’re born. We live. We work. We die. That’s about all we can expect, really ⏤ oh, and taxes, too! That’s on the surface, at least. Queer Americana band Karen & the Sorrows dig below the crust and hollow out their hearts with the pointedly-titled “Guaranteed Broken Heart,” a boot-scootin’ ditty culled with a wry smile. “Don’t touch my face / Don’t say my name / Don’t smile that smile / Don’t look at me that way,” front-woman Karen Pittelman spits off a list of warnings. While she clutches her shattered heart in her hands, rough-edged and throbbing, she somehow uncovers humor in her situation and lets the sorrow rise from her chest. In doing so, she guards herself from a completely devastating and brutal bottoming out.
“Guaranteed Broken Heart” is the title cut to the band’s new album, out everywhere October 18.
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