Broken Chanter

Broken Chanter is the stage name of Glaswegian songwriter David MacGregor. His latest album, This Could be Us, You, Or Anybody Else, was released by Chemikal Underground on 10 April 2026 to critical acclaim (songs of hope for a world on fire - UNCUT) and chart success.

MacGregor has released three critically acclaimed albums as Broken Chanter - 2019's eponymous introduction to his new guise (A stunning, stately debut - The Skinny), 2021's Catastrophe Hits (Muscular, fast-moving indie-pop – The Scotsman), and most recently, 2024’s Scottish Album Of The Year- Longlisted Chorus Of Doubt (MacGregor's particular skill is in camouflaging rage, heartbreak, and despair as uplifting earworms. [Chorus Of Doubt] shows a band on top of their game...at its best it's agit-pop with heart 8/10 – UNCUT).

He spent 2007-2017 as the principal songwriter of Scottish Alt-Pop darlings Kid Canaveral - a band that could get you to dance, laugh, and weep all in the space of the same set. Their Debut LP Shouting at Wildlife was described by The Herald as "a Scottish pop classic that should be mandatory in every record collection in the country", and saw the band perform across a large chunk of the western hemisphere, with the similarly well-received follow-up Now That You Are a Dancer being Longlisted for the SAY Award in 2014.

"This future is bright and I don't want it..." So begins David MacGregor's powerful 4th album as Broken Chanter: a collection of muscular, visceral compositions that challenge the encroaching alienation of the modern sociopolitical landscape. Elucidated over 10 songs fuelled by an uncanny empathy and devotion to the human spirit, This Could be Us, You, or Anybody Else builds on 2024's Scottish Album of the Year-Longlisted Chorus Of Doubt's agitprop ecstasy to delirious effect. Recorded as ever at Chemikal Underground's studio Chem19 with producer Paul Savage and with regular collaborators Charlotte Printer, Bartholomew Owl, and Martin Johnston, This Could be Us... is rock music as revelation, protest, community in action. Harking back to the activist post-punk of the early 80s to approach the future, Broken Chanter here sound vital and immediate.

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