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Heaven Sent

Be Made For Me

Violet

Love Her Anyway

LOVE IS OVERRATED

Villain of Your Story

Flame

The Arc

Verse 1:
The red dawn begins
Burning inside the arc
And one last daydream
Invited me under its spell

Verse 2:
It’s blackened again
Now the heavy clouds hide the sun
And the sea kept us sitting
Just sitting under its swell

Chorus:
Into the middleland sand
There I dive so often
You can let’em pass
With your mind half open

That’s a dream to keep
One I’m living in

Verse 3:
The steam, dust and haze
They’re lingering in the sky
Well I’m blinded again, on this
Sitting on this height.



Chorus:
Into the middleland sand
There I dive so often
You can let’em pass
With your mind half open

That’s a dream to keep
The one I’m living in

Verse 4:
And the red dawn begins
Burning inside the arc
I’m blinded again 
Sitting under a spell

Chorus:
Into the middleland sand
There I dive so often
You can let’em pass
With your mind half open

That’s a dream to keep 
The one I’m living in

The middleland sand
I carve so often
You can let’em pass
With your heart half broken

It’s a dream to fill 
It’s all spilling in

The Arc

Collateral Damage

Gotta Be You

SUNDAY MORNING

Verse A
Toxic is the only way I know how to breathe
Your love just wasn't enough cuz I needed you to fix me
I tried to hide this hole hidden deep within my soul
You tried to fill it but we both know

Pre-Chorus
How could you ever want to be with someone like me
How could two broken people ever find peace

Chorus
I needed you to love me
I needed you to make me feel alive
I needed you to make me happy
And for that 

Post-Chorus
I apologize
Apologize
I apologize

Verse B
I fell in love with the idea of you
I dreamed you perfect but my lie couldn't fit your truth
It makes me feel better when I'm not the one I blame 
I never will admit my faults I just push away

Repeat Pre-Chorus

Repeat Chorus

Repeat Post-Chorus

Bridge
Why can't I fix me ?
Why can't I heal me ?
Why can't I save me ?
Why can't I fill me ?

Repeat Chorus

Repeat Post-Chorus


Apologize

What U Freakin'

All that's left

"Pimentón" is inspired by Sunday afternoons in my childhood Panamanian home—salsa blasting, the AC not blasting, my dad cooking dinner and handing my mom the spoon to taste if dinner was ready. Her reply, “échale más pimentón,” became the spark for this song—the spice your playlist needs.

Pimentón

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Brave New Broken Hearts Club is the vehicle for north London born songwriter and producer Neil Phillimore.  Neil’s writing and producing skills for many years were put to use running a not-for-profit organisation, songwriting and recording for the wellbeing and mentoring of youth. The origins of his own creative project were simply the exercising of that same power of creativity for the sake of wellbeing in his own life, when confronted with the disappointment of having to stop the popular one-to-one sessions due to lack of funding.

 A sniffter of Billy Bragg’s London vocal styling; the tiniest pinch of Damon Albarn’s lower register; a dash of Richard Hawley croon; a glug of classic songwriting aesthetic and you’re in the ballpark - sometimes erring more towards the acoustic styling of a Nick Mulvey Type and sometimes more towards the indie pop/rock of guitar acts like Inhaler or Sam Fender. Brave New Broken Hearts Club songs are lyrically intelligent, emotionally rich; hopeful, warm and heartfelt.

After the release of Not What We Call Love in 2021 Brave New Broken Hearts Club set about a national house-gig tour taking in homes across the UK from Harlow to Sheffield via Wales. April 2022 saw the reprise of this intimate and personal approach to touring with a further ten date tour capped off finally with 2 beautifully intimate headlining shows  in the beautiful upstairs room of Islington’s finest public house- The Hemmingford Arms.

2022 brought with it four singles  A Little Piece Of Me , All I Have is Now, Higher and Beauty

February of 2023 saw his biggest gigs to date in two beautiful ancient old church buildings in South Wales and Wiltshire. The month ended with an intimate show back up in Sheffield where he and close friend  Peckham folk singer Pearl Fish sold out the renown acoustic venue Cafe#9.

Brave New Broken Hearts Club lyrics are thoughtful and smart, and extend the usual lexicon of the modern songwriter elegantly and unselfconsciously - they are quite unique. That uniqueness extends to his vocal style too, provoking music blog European Indie Music Network to comment ‘An obviously English voice, genuinely like no other artist you've ever heard.’ 

Despite largely drawing on lessons learned in dark times Brave New broken Hearts Club’s songs are stridently and unabashedly hopeful. Often simple production, leaves room for  the intelligent lyrics and for the now familiar authenticity and vulnerability of a Brave New Broken Hearts Club vocal.

Be Made For Me

BraveNewBrokenHeartsClub

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