Marc Broussard
Keep Coming Back

Campus Correspondent Review By Hunter Embry,
Indiana University Southeast

Keep Coming Back is the first release from soul singer Marc Broussard since signing with Atlantic Records. The Louisiana-born Broussard released his first EP Monetary Setback in 2002, in which he displayed a strong understanding of several genres, including soul, blues, R&B, funk and rock. Since then, Broussard has continued to record and tour, while perfecting his sound all along that varied road.

The title track opens up the album– a funky display of “too cool” vocals, thick bass tones, crisp drums and trunk load of lead keyboard work. Broussard’s roughly soothing voice draws from Otis Redding, Al Green and even more modern influences like Lenny Kravitz. The following track, “Hard Knocks,” shows-off a Hendrix-type guitar tone, muffed and wah-ed overtop a melting organ and grooving rhythm section. The lyrics are a bit comical though, tracing the chubby cheeked Broussard through school as he chats about a good teacher who didn’t impart messages of biology or chemistry, but rather, how to fight and about the birds and bees. As the track winds down he cries, “These streets keep calling me.” Seriously? Broussard looks about as threatening as Marky Mark.

While he may not look the part, Broussard uses Keep Coming Back to dig a little deeper into the old soul scene. He stores vintage tones throughout the record and it’ll be interesting to see what Broussard can do with a bigger label from this point forward.