Peter Broderick
Float

Peter Broderick is another one of those musical dream weavers that have emerged in recent years with this new wave of modern classical or neoclassical, if you will. But while many of these new faces have nothing to say because they are too compositionally weak to stand out, Broderick is one of the most promising musicians in this new field.

The young Danish multi-instrumentalist had already made a name for himself with the mini album "Docile," created for a series of piano CDs conceived by the minds behind Kning Disk. "Docile" contained 10 brief and simple piano fugues, yet they were so intimate that they remained positively impactful. Starting once again from the ivory keys, Broderick returns in 2008, just one year after his first true work, under the prestigious Type Records, bringing "Float" to life.

On a path of evolution, the Danish artist makes decisive strides forward in terms of personality and songwriting. "Stopping on the Broadway bridge" is proof of this: Broderick shows that he can immerse himself in realms far from the nostalgic sadness of his debut. If the piano's opening is in our artist’s usual style, the progression of the song introduces us to an artist who fearlessly lingers in the dark depths of an ambient sound that, for its weight and "presence," approaches dark ambient, before the piano returns once more to clear the clouds. Of completely different characteristics is the wonderful "A glacier", a touching symphony of piano and strings: the notes chase each other in a moving song with an ancient flavor. Sharing the title and also the atmosphere, "Another glacier" plays like confirmation of all of Peter Broderick's good qualities, with him also contributing vocally here, for a composition and sounds that immediately reminded me by analogy of Eluvium's album "Similes," even if that came out just last year...

By uniting the simple and crystalline piano glimpses of "Docile" ("A simple reminder", "Something has changed"), passing through the "evolution" tracks mentioned above and other good examples of modern classical like "A snowflake" and "A beginning", the Danish Peter Broderick offers us with "Float" his second success in two tries. In this effort, the musician shows himself more mature than he was in "Docile": his ability to renew himself while also remaining positively tied to the past makes him one of the most interesting names in this modern musical reality.

1. "A Snowflake" (3:25)
2. "Floating/Sinking" (4:08)
3. "A Glacier" (3:17)
4. "A Simple Reminder" (1:15)
5. "Stopping On The Broadway Bridge" (7:28)
6. "Another Glacier" (3:51)
7. "Something Has Changed" (2:23)
8. "Broken Patterns" (3:32)
9. "An Ending" (4:29)
10. "A Beginning" (1:57)