Ian MacDougall has lived many musical lives. The Texas-native spent his twenties and thirties playing guitar in the popular Denton-based act the Riverboat Gamblers, was a member of Band Of Horses for five years (including performing on their 2022 album Things Are Great) and has toured the world with everyone from the Gamblers to being a hired gun for several notable punk rock and crust bands. However, for the past 15 years, the most distilled version of his musical vision has been Broken Gold, an act that sees him turning down the distortion and stretching out as a songwriter to carefully craft a sound that has more in common with Hüsker Dü than Discharge. After releasing a handful of EPs and live recordings, the band are set to release their second full-length album Wild Eyes, a collection of songs that transcend categorization and showcase what a versatile and evolved musician MacDougall has become over the past two decades as he performed everywhere from punk squats to headlining mainstages at Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza. The constant is the honesty and vulnerability in both MacDougall’s DIY ethics and approach to music, facts that are laid bare on every note of Wild Ey