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February 4, 2014 at 6:30 AM

Broken Bells — Bee Gees with a twist?

By Joseph Sutton-Holcomb
Special to The Seattle Times

I first heard “Holding on for Life,” the primary single from Broken Bells’ second album, on KEXP during my lunch break. My boss listened for thirty seconds, declared that it sounded “like the goddam Bee Gees” and changed the station.

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