The Broken Down Comforter Collection is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the band Grandaddy

Grandaddy

Grandaddy was an American indie rock band, formed in 1992 in Modesto, California by singer, guitarist, and keyboardist Jason Lytle, bassist Kevin Garcia, and drummer Aaron Burtch. Guitarist Jim Fairchild and keyboardist Tim Dryden later joined the band in 1995...

, released in June 1999 by Big Cat Records

Big Cat Records

Big Cat Records is a UK record label. It launched around 1990 and originally specialized in industrial and noise-rock releases. Operated a US office in NYC for a few years. Purchased by V2 Records in 1996, at which point their roster became much more diverse in style...

. It is a combination of the tracks from the mini-album A Pretty Mess By This One Band

A Pretty Mess by This One Band

A Pretty Mess by This One Band is an EP by the band Grandaddy, released in April 1996 on Will Records. It includes four songs taken from the band's earlier cassette-only release Complex Party Come Along Theories, and others from their unreleased 1995 album Don't Sock the Tryer.The tracks from the...

and the EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Machines Are Not She.

Reception

The NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

gave it 8/10 and called it "patchy" but stated "there are gems hidden on here iridescent enough to render the collection essential". Allmusic writer Ben Davies gave it a three-star review, stating that the "low points come around rarely, and are far outnumbered by the quality tracks".

Track listing

1. "Gentle Spike Resort"
2. "Wretched Songs"
3. "Levitz"
4. "Away Birdies with Special Sounds"
5. "Kim You Bore Me to Death"
6. "For the Dishwasher"
7. "Pre Merced"
8. "Sikh in a Baja VW Bug"
9. "Lava Kiss"
10. "Fentry"
11. "Taster"
12. "Egg Hit and Jack Too"
13. "You Drove Your Car into a Moving Train" (hidden track)

All tracks witten by Jason Lytle.