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"Half The City is the album you put on after the night's done, to chill out, make out or cry into that last drink you pour in the kitchen. It's also the one you reach for the morning after, because you just have to memorize those grooves." — NPR's First Listen

Grit, elemental rhythm, tight-as-a-drumhead playing, and a profound depth of feeling: These are the promises of a great soul band. And St. Paul and the Broken Bones deliver on those promises.

Half the City is the compelling full-length Single Lock/Thirty Tigers debut of the Birmingham, Alabama-based sextet, who have already created a maelstrom of interest with their roof-raising live shows and self-released four-song 2012 EP. Produced by Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, and recorded and mixed in the storied R&B mecca of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the album harkens back to the region's classic soul roots while extending the form with electrifying potency.

Half the City vital, direct, emotionally affecting presents the same engaged, high-voltage, in-the-pocket sound that St. Paul and the Broken Bones produce at their live dates, where Janeway's extroverted performing style enraptures his audiences.

"I'm going to be dancing, getting in the aisles, climbing on tables," he says. "That's just the way we do it. It really takes me back to church. There's not a lot of difference. When I get on stage it's, 'All right, it's time to pour it on.'"

Track Listing
1. I’m Torn Up
2. Don’t Mean a Thing
3. Call Me
4. Like a Mighty River
5. That Glow
6. Broken Bones and Pocket Change
7. Sugar Dyed
8. Half The City
9. Grass Is Greener
10. Let It Be So
11. Dixie Rothko
12. It’s Midnight