St. Paul & The Broken Bones - St. Paul & The Broken Bones

A self-titled album means something. For St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Birmingham's ever-evolving Southern-soul giants, their sixth LP is at once a reinvention, a reunion, and a return to roots — a "reset and a refresh," as singer and co-founder Paul Janeway puts it, after a frenetic few years at the creative frontier.

The album carries forward the experimental ambition of their recent back-to-back heavyweights The Alien Coast and Angels in Science Fiction, while recapturing the warmth, exuberance, and pure joy that made their breakout debut Half the City so irresistible. It is an album that reminds you why you fell in love with this band in the first place — soulful, alive, and brimming with personality — while making clear they have no intention of standing still.

Across 10 assured songs, St. Paul & The Broken Bones find the sweet spot between ambition and accessibility, delivering music that swings and soars with the ease of a band fully in command of their craft.

Pressed on Coke Clear vinyl, this is a record worth savoring — inside and out.