They have an inspiring drive to their music, a great melodic sense, and a touch (okay, a fistful) of the absurd. It should give fans of sophisticated rock hope. But despite my confusion/misgivings, I'm glad this band exists.
Texico Bitches is immediately likeable, though severely limited lyrically. There are also some of the best bass riffs since New Order & The Cure.Īs I said, they drop gems of songs out of the sky, then when you expect more of the same, give you some endless overbaked crap. Generally they sound like a poppier mixture of Sonic Youth (Forced to Love), Flaming Lips & Wilco (Ungrateful Little Father). Though Chase Scene & All in All on FRR verge close to Stevie Nicks/Bananarama 80's music, this CD is no more a sell-out than Goo by Sonic Youth was. However, BSS are still are in the running for best cult, experimental rock band on the planet, with Radiohead (stripped-down, skeletal deconstruction department) & Wilco (country folk-rock laced with atonal noise). Their style of jamming is adding on the layers of guitar riffs, horns, percussion, voices & noise. I'd call them prog-rock, but their are no talented improvisers in BSS. They have a song (maybe 10), destined to become your favorite(s), & they also (like Flaming Lips) have weird, aimless jams guaranteed to delight angel-dust devotees. This is a band you can love & sometimes hate. Buy it now, this album should not be missed. Those days are over with the arrival of this record. You Forgot It People was a very special album to me and constantly had a spot on my iPod shuffle. I was afraid this ablum would fall flat on it's face, and to be honest I may have wanted it to in a sense. Even the lesser songs hold their old against BSS's older more off the wall albums. Some will say this album is a bit more geared to a mainstream fanbase, and maybe it is, but that does nothing to thwart the genius displaying song in and song out. It may be close to impossible to be in a bad mood while enjoying this ablum. This album is great background music for the gym or a jog. They have somehow managed to create the perfect Summer/Fall album. Water In Hell - The true outro to the album (a 2 mintue "Me and My Hand wraps up the album and may be the weakest part of the piece)īroken Social Scene is slowly moving into my "Top 25 Most Played" playlist more and more everyday. Extremly accessable also.Īrt House Director - This song is reminesant of older BSS, and reminds you they haven't changed a bit. Does an amazing job pulling the listner in and almost not wanting to move on.Ĭhase Scene - The second song on the album is just as, if not more, tasteful than the first. World Sick - The album opens with a nearly 7 minute long triumph of music.
I find myself deciding to allow the instrumental interludes to play through as a means to prepare myself for the next brillant song. The interludes (not seperated by individual tracks) arent unwelcomed here like they were in previous efforts. Don't get me wrong, I love ambient music, but only when it fits and its necessary. They have shaved all the unwanted (noise at times) 4-5 minute gloomy, archaic instrumentals between vocals. It felt rushed and tried way to hard not seperate itself from any identity at all.)įorgiveness Rock Record is the result of 3 trips to the plastic surgeon with extensive work at the gym in between.
Broken Social Scene (ST) was all over the place, and not exactly in a good way. It even had gems like Cause=Time, Almost Crimes, and the eerie, yet unforgetable Anthems. You Forgot It In People was just as trippy but with lyrics and emotion that made it possible to sit through multiple listens. (Feel Good Lost was and instrumental mind trip that showed a lot of potential. They have taken eveything beautiful about their past releases, and illuminated it in every way imaginable. I am not speaking about the genre, the vocal talent, or even the choice of instruments and song structure. The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.Forgiveness Rock Record is what music should sound like. The critically acclaimed album, produced by John McEntire of the bands Tortoise and The Sea and Cake, features guest appearances by Feist, Emily Haines of Metric, Scott Kannberg from Pavement, Sebastien Grainger of Death from Above 1979, and Sam Prekop also of The Sea and Cake. Forgiveness Rock Record is the fourth studio album by Canadian indie rock musical collective Broken Social Scene, released by the Arts & Crafts record label on May 4, 2010.
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