Righteous echoes of gritty guitars rattle from across the US on the new album, Dos, from LA-based band Broken Sound. Released on October 10th, 2025, Dos is a multi-faceted garage-rock album with many pressing issues on its mind.
The record arrives with a loose concept tying most of the tracks together. It focuses on the current political climate in the US, addressing topics such as AI, whistle-blowing, and polarization. The band pulls from the tried-and-true tradition of punk to get the message across, using only one guitar, drums, and some vocal chops to speak to larger national interests.
Dos enters the political sphere immediately with its first single, "Melt the Bots."
The song protests the exploitation and theft of art caused by irresponsible usage of AI. The band highlights the danger of derivative AI slop, singing, "They taught a robot how to sing / They taught a robot how to steal art." Backing this up are the hazy, bluesy riffs that provide the sonic bed for the song's anthemic chorus, and ultimately the fight against fake art.
The record continues its portrayal of the insanity of modern political life with the single, "Everybody Wants to Screw the World," which in its title sounds like a spoof on Tears For Fears hit, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
The track voices criticism towards just about everyone with power in American society, from the CEO, to the game show host, and much in between. With the heavy, distorted riffs and hazy vocal contributions from both band members, this is easily one of the record's hardest hitting songs. Don't miss the rhythmic change-up during the bridge either, as its one of the LP's most adrenaline-inducing moments.
The album isn't all politics, however. The track "Release" ponders all the musical ideas out there that people are just holding inside. The song considers the reality that there are hours upon hours of musical ideas that never see the light of day, and that maybe a little encouragement is necessary to see more music come to fruition: something 98% of artists and bands can relate to, or any creative for that matter.
The album's closer, "Zapruder's Other Films," is a song with a very sinister undertone.
The song's title refers to Abraham Zapruder. Zapruder was a civilian who randomly caught the assassination of John F. Kennedy while innocently filming the president passing by. The song builds a parallelism between the volatile political world of the 1960s and present day, and the omni-presence of surveillance and cameras in everybody's pockets.
Dos delivers a modern punk rock n' roll viewpoint to the neverending political and societal mess we find ourselves in, something that's always at the core of that style of music. To celebrate the release of the album, Broken Sound will be playing a release show at Molly Malone's Irish Pub in Los Angeles on Saturday November 1st.
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