Broken Bells

The story

Broken Bells is an American indie rock band composed of artist-producer Brian Burton and James Mercer, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the indie rock band The Shins. Broken Bells compose and create as a duo, but are joined by Dan Elkan and Jon Sortland when performing live. The previous live band included Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band sidemen Nate Walcott and Nik Freitas, and Jonathan Hischke and Dan Elkan, both ex-members of Hella. Following their 2010 self-titled debut album, the duo released an EP, Meyrin Fields, in 2011 and their second studio album, After the Disco, in 2014. In 2022 they released a third studio album, Into the Blue.

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Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews, from the band and its members.

Watch

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Records

• Holding On for Life (Zeds Dead remix) · 2014 · Single · remix
• Holding On for Life (Solomun remix) · 2014 · Single · remix

Records from MusicBrainz. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive.

Members

• Danger Mouse
• James Mercer
• Brian Burton

Members past and present, each with their own page. From MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with Broken Bells in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with Broken Bells in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like Broken Bells

• The Shins3 sources agree
• Spoon3 sources agree
• Portugal. The Man3 sources agree
• Foals3 sources agree
• Vampire Weekend3 sources agree
• Arcade Fire3 sources agree
• Local Natives3 sources agree
• alt-J3 sources agree
• TV on the Radio3 sources agree
• Bombay Bicycle Club3 sources agree
• Peter Bjorn and John2 sources agree
• Cold War Kids2 sources agree

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of Broken Bells’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.

Also called Broken Bells

• Artist · JP
  Broken Bells late 90s abstract/breaks artist