broke royals

American duo Broke Royal have been creating songs that embody the best kind of identity crisis since 2014. Now they share the first single off their forthcoming album ‘Saint Luxury’.

Based in Washington DC, the guys, Philip Basnight and Colin Cross, incorporate the vulnerability and shared insights of late-night, low-volume conversations and turn them into stadium-ready anthems.

‘Saint Luxury’ is a gut-punch in the choruses and easily reach the folks up in the nosebleeds. They’ve certainly taken their urgent, anthemic guitar rock and soulful melodies in as many directions as they’ve got songs, and their latest is another major leap forward.

With “Saint Luxury,” the first single off their forthcoming album of the same name, each song is about a struggle and a crisis in faith.

The duo said: “A good artist can turn any private conflict into public property. Basnight and Cross may have just zeroed in on a struggle that transcends class, race, belief system, politics, geography, gender — everything.

“It’s that stretch of life we all wander solo in between being told what’s ‘right,’ and being looked to for ‘answers’. It’s the stretch where we have space to challenge and explore what we think is right, but only if we leap into the unknown.

“Trading in the certainty that comes with having “answers” in search of the more important, more elusive questions. It’s a tough enough time to navigate, never mind the name. Sometimes it takes a song to tell you which kind of lost you are.”

While they’re on their own sonically, their musical choices are very “DC.” From the get-go, their output has had all the nuance, raw emotion, accessibility and directness of their neighbours in the legendary Go-Go and Hardcore scenes.