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  • Summary: The latest solo release for the Oregon artist is a piano-based album and was inspired by the late composer John Cage.
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  1. Aug 22, 2016
    80
    Partners is another triumph in Broderick’s career. It will simultaneously disorientate and captivate; it will feel both familiar and unlike anything you’ve ever heard previously.
  2. Aug 22, 2016
    80
    The results aren’t nearly as chaotic as that process might make it sound.
  3. Aug 22, 2016
    80
    It’s a testament to Broderick’s talent that even on an endlessly intriguing and clever record like this, he can still play straight to the heart.
  4. Aug 24, 2016
    76
    ["Sometimes" is] a knockout punch to an already gripping body of music and a fitting last word that cements this album not just as a heartfelt expression of love for John Cage, but for love itself.
  5. Aug 22, 2016
    70
    It is not his finest album, or the one that will win him the most new fans--unlike Colours of the Night--but for anyone with a love of modern classical and a taste for the expressive flavours of the piano it is a very worthwhile listen.
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    Sep 2, 2016
    70
    These seven piano/voice tracks, recorded and mixed live to tape by Tucker Martine, are immediately seductive, balancing spare, bittersweet melodies and billowing space. [Oct 2016, p.26]