Michael Hurley - Maisons et jardins brisés

Broken Homes and Gardens, Michael Hurley's final studio album, was completed in March 2025 just before Hurley left for his final concerts in Asheville and Knoxville. He had worked on these 11 tracks over the past three years at The Rope Room studio in Astoria, Oregon, with the same team as for his 2021 LP, The Time of the Foxgloves (Kati Claborn and Luke Ydstei of The Hackles and engineer Brian Bovenizer).

As was common with Hurley's LPs: there are reinterpretations of old compositions ("Indian Chiefs and Hula Girls", "Abominable Snowman") alongside new songs ("Fava", "The Monkey") forming a brilliant final collection, and crowning one of the most important works of any American songwriter.