Perfectly reflecting this vision, their fourth full length CD Everything In Nature is centered around and dedicated to promoting a more global consciousness about our relationship to nature and ourselves. Putting their money where their mouth is, McDonald and Antropova are donating 50% of the profits from the recording to three major organizations: NDRC (Natural Resource Defense Council), Greenpeace and the human rights organization OXFAM. For this release, Broken Poets incorporated the style and expertise of session drummer Russ Phaneuf to complete their new sound.

While thier album Reincarnation took listeners on a spiritual journey through the many facets of one man's life, Everything in Nature finds McDonald digging deep into his personal philosophy and contemplating life's deeper meanings. "I like to joke that as a songwriter, I am prone to thinking way too much," he says, "but I grew up with my older brother and sister force feeding me all the great singer-songwriters from the 60's and 70's who were also very contemplative writers. I think the standards for lyric writing were much higher in those days, and even though I didn't really 'get it' back then, I guess it set the bar high for the songwriter and storyteller I would become.

He continues, "The questions that inspired Everything In Nature were, what is life about? What am I doing with it? I started looking at nature and it hit me that plants and trees start off with seeds that simply evolve into what they're destined to become. We're the only living things on the planet that can question how we grow and because of that awareness, we need to take responsibility for both ourselves and nature. That initial idea spurred most of the songs on the album, and I feel grateful that I was able to write good songs from this idea that our place in the world involves a commitment to preserving the natural world. Every project I've launched with Broken Poets seems to draw from a different theme within my personal philosophy."

The album title comes from a key line in the opening track "Love For What's Real," where McDonald sings, "Everything in nature has its own will." That track, like many of his songs, are written in six-eight time, which he calls "uncool yet cool" compared to most rock tunes that are composed in four-four. "To Dream Of Another Life" is another six-eighter that was inspired lyrically by listening to classic Bob Dylan. Dylan finds his way into the title of another provocative piece, the anti-misogyny track "Last Resurrection of the 1st Bob Dylan," which playfully addresses the legend's many creative incarnations.

1. Love for What's Real
2. Once Before
3. To Dream of Another Life
4. My Station
5. Meaningless Heart
6. Idle Thought
7. The Message
8. Last Resurrection of the First Bob Dylan
9. The Matriarch
10. Perfect World

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 9/7/2008
Broken Poets lives in Arizona USA

Tagged as: Alt Rock, Other

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