After taking a full year to record their full-length debut, I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On, Los Angeles’ The Brokedown were forced to change their name after a cease-and-desist from a Chicago band of the same name.Eschewing any Brokedown Jr. or The SuperBrokedown (the suggestion of their label, Merge Records), they became The Broken West – a name similar, but not too similar, and pointing to their home without actually breaking from the rest of the country.