Broken Creek are releasing their second single ‘Broken Tapes’ on Tuesday 6th November. 

The wistful single sees Picola-based duo Erin and Lachlan Heycox explore a landscape of nostalgia with a stripped back acoustic sound of guitar and fiddle reminiscent of artists like The Waifs and Gillian Welch. 

Broken Creek create Australian folk music that finds resonances in the past for the present moment. In ‘Broken Tapes’, they reach into their own past to sort through postcards of memories: picnics at the Yarraville Gardens with highschool friends, family holiday road trips along the Hume Highway soundtracked by Midnight Oil tapes and beachcombing at dusk along Mollymook Beach. 

“We were remembering the long family road trips to see family on the East Coast and how you would often see broken cassette tapes that had become tangled in the car and tossed out the window” explains guitarist Lachlan Heycox. 

“Things have changed so much in the last few years, but that feeling of missing old friends, past homes - even old technology is something we can all relate to” adds frontwoman Erin Heycox. 

The single was recorded in Erin and Lachlan’s home studio on the Lancaster farm in Picola. At the end of 2023 they successfully crowdfunded the money needed to complete the recordings and have the album mixed by Mischa Hernan and mastered by Myles Mumford. 

It is accompanied by a music video that mashes up Lachlan and Erin’s own grainy videos from the early 2010’s. 

Broken Tapes is the second single lifted from Broken Creek’s’ second studio album Yeah Nah, following their 2023 single ‘The Gathering Wool’.