When Terami Hirsch announced her side project Story of My Ghost last year, I was rather taken with the meeting of typewriter rhythms, breakbeats and piano of Checkerboard. (Listening to it now reminds me of someone else, particularly during its quieter moments.) I didn't expect so much edginess in her fourth album A Broke Machine - perhaps I should have read her blog post more carefully.

At the moment A Broke Machine lives in the section of my brain labelled 'Interesting..' which means it will get listened to far more often than if it lived the almost-identically-named 'Interesting' section.

Wasteland ties filtered industrial broken beats to the legs of one of the prettier ballads on the album and together they jump around like a new born lamb. That means I like it.

Terami Hirsch Official Website
A Broke Machine - Terami.com
A Broke Machine - iTunes UK