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Broken Record

The musical composition "Broken Record" is an Indie track by Serhiy Zarudnyak, featuring vocals and guitar by Oleh Shynkarenko.

The title invokes one of the most familiar metaphors for compulsive repetition — the vinyl record locked in its groove, replaying the same fragment in an endless loop. Yet the song turns the idiom inside out. Where the phrase is ordinarily used to dismiss repetition as mere stubbornness, the composition treats it as a form of fidelity: the insistence on returning to the same point not because one is stuck, but because that point still holds something unexhausted.

The track explores the difference between fruitless circularity and the kind of return that deepens with each revolution — the way a recurring memory, a recurring question, or a recurring melody can accumulate meaning rather than lose it. Set against the sparse arrangements characteristic of Shkola Tanziv, the song transforms the broken record from an image of malfunction into one of persistence and devotion.