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Broke House is the latest collaboration between songwriters Luke Costelloe and Ron Francois. Costelloe was raised on a diet of ‘00s indie rock music, whereas Francois was active in England's post-punk and neo-psychedelic scenes before joining the Eurogliders and moving to Australia in the '80s. They met in 2008 when Francois caught Costelloe's first band at a live show on the Central Coast of Australia. After years of inactivity, in 2017 Costelloe began penning songs again at home in his remote riverside town on the outskirts of Sydney. After reconnecting with Francois the two committed to a regular day-a-week recording schedule at Francois’ home studio. Broke House is the culmination of this year long creative and productive period in which the pair wrote, recorded, mixed and mastered the album together. Francois' production tries to find and deliver Costelloe’s true voice over sparse arrangements based on Costelloe's haunting and chiming guitar figures. In classic songwriting duo