Don Broco: How darkness and despair led to Amazing Things
Think you’ve got Don Broco all figured out by this point? Wrong. On fourth album Amazing Things, the Bedford crew are angry – about racism, climate change, social media and more – and they’re not afraid to let it all out…
Words: James Hickie
Photos: Paul Harries
Ask Don Broco to recall the moment their astonishing new album was born and they whisk you back to New York City, October 2018. The band were a couple of shows into Mike Shinoda’s North American tour, where they were opening act for the Linkin Park star. Despite an exhausting schedule in support of third album Technology, the Bedford quartet were in high spirits, embracing the prospect of a night off in the city that never sleeps; the first case of COVID-19 more than a year away from changing everything.