Broken Wing (EP)

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Broken Wing
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ReleasedApril 2, 2013
RecordedOctober 2012 at The Blasting Room, Fort Collins, Colorado
Genre Punk rock
Length13:18
Label Heart & Skull / Epitaph
Producer Bill Stevenson, Jason Livermore
Alkaline Trio chronology
Damnesia
(2011)
Broken Wing
(2013)
My Shame Is True
(2013)

Broken Wing is an EP by American punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released on April 2, 2013 on Epitaph and Heart & Skull. Produced by both Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore, Broken Wing was recorded during the same sessions that yielded the band's eighth studio album, My Shame Is True , and consists of songs that were written for the album but didn't fit the album's theme of catharsis. [1]

Contents

Digital deluxe versions of My Shame Is True include all four songs from Broken Wing as bonus tracks. [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Matt Skiba, Dan Andriano, and Derek Grant

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Balanced on a Shelf"4:06
2."Pocket Knife"2:43
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Broken Wing"3:28
2."Sun Burns"3:41
Total length:13:18

Personnel

Alkaline Trio

Additional musicians

Recording personnel

Artwork

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References

  1. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : Alkaline Trio - On EP "Broken Wing" | GRAMMYs. YouTube .
  2. "My Shame is True (Deluxe Edition) by Alkaline Trio". iTunes . 2 April 2013.