David Wax Museum: "Born With A Broken Heart"

The David Wax Museum has premiered a music video on NPR's All Songs Considered blog for their first single, "Born With A Broken Heart" from the band's third album "Everything is Saved," is currently slotted for a February 3rd release. There's no way that you can get away without having a skip in your step after listening to "Born With A Broken Heart." The flamenco style hand clapping intro is a perfect start and even with the topic of being born broken hearted, the Mexican-infused folk track exudes a eminence of hope.
Tagged as "one of Boston's hottest new bands" by The Boston Globe, With its heart-wrenching harmonies, poignant lyrics, The David Wax Museum fuses exuberant Mexican roots music with rockin' country folk reminiscent of old school Jayhawks and early Wilco. Originally from Columbia, Missouri, the band is now based on Boston. The David Wax Museum masterfully blends traditional Irish, classical, and old-time folk with traditional Mexican and American folk/country, folk and rock, creating an utterly unique Mexo-Americana aesthetic songs that bring audiences to their feet with Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and donkey jawbone rattling.
The video for "Born With A Broken Heart," was directed by Dina Rudick, who gave us some background about the thought process behind the shoot: "We didn't want to 'interpret' the song with our music video or overpower its meaning with a heavy-handed concept, but we also weren't interested in a folksy-cool collage of imagery set to a soundtrack. The video has a loose narrative and employes several symbolic through-lines, but we fuzzed out any hard lines of 'definite' meaning so that the video could embody the song: soulful and spunky while remaining lighthearted."
This is one infectious band. Band members David Wax and Suz Slezak are inspired by the folk music of Mexico. Taking about those influences and how they put this video together, Slezak said "It was barely 40 degrees when we climbed into the back of the red pickup truck, teeth chattering, to film our first music video. With a backdrop of perfect New England foliage, we spent two chilly days from dawn to dusk singing our hearts out in a variety of locales." Wax added "Filming part of the music video in the Boston subway station brought me back full-circle to the beginning of my Boston music career. Shortly after giving up on performing in the subways, I started to translate Mexican folk songs into English and began composing on my Mexican guitars, using the rhythms and song structures I had learned in Mexico. Over time, I built up a catalog of Mexo-Americana songs. 'Born With a Broken Heart' is one of those." This video will certain to get your toes-a-tapping!