Songs like the incredible, eight and a half minute Last Place make for an enjoyable listen on the sole fact that they have as much brilliance, subtlety, complexity and variety in them that you can't help but tap you're foot, close you're eyes and forget about the problems. The best part of these kinds of songs is the way that BSS crafts them to be different, odd and sort of Radiohead Amnesiac era music that hums, glistens and stuns, but also adds an indie feel - the very fact that these guys add guitar, bass and drums as background noise makes this album even more appealing, but in the meantime it may turn some listeners off.Īnother side of the album is the current sound of Broken Social Scene - the indie anthems that boast a dozen instruments and usually boast a fascinating, complex rhythm to them that make them even more irrestable. The rock instruments (ie Bass, Guitar, Drums) only compliment the hum of the background noise, and the band may even add a whispering vocal performance to keep things interesting. But Broken Social Scene add a dazzling array of instruments, which make sometimes brief but always rewarding appearances. That's where the Sigur Ros comparison comes in. Let's say this the album features an assorted array of sounds carefully crafted into beautiful, melancolie, mournful and solemn pieces of beautiful music. The whole album features a sort of concept: to make white noise listenable. Nevertheless, this album is completely breathtaking. A sort of Sigur Ros influenced album, if you will. This is an instrumental album, and it is completely different than they're other albums. Founders Brenden Canning and Kevin Drew play all the instruments, with the exception of a few guest performances. Only two full time members appear on this record. This is probably 1/9 of Broken Social Scene. The recent win of the Best Alternative Album juno might shove them into the mainstream a little bit more, but rest assured this band isn't about to change. In they're five year recording career, there's barely been a mention of them on the radio, there haven't been memorobilia, there haven't been teenage fans waving "I Love You!" signs at they're concerts. You're feel good lost.īroken Social Scene have defied they're spotlight in the mainstream, but for a good cost - they get to make the music that they love the most. You're lost, but you don't care because you're having oh so much fun and your chains are undone by your parents who only encourage rides such as the marry-go-round and sitting on the bench. How dangerously intriguing the travelling freakshow appeals to you. How exciting the squirt-the-water-in-the-balloon's-mouth game appears to be. Oh, how fun the ferris wheel looks in your young eyes. Imagine being a young lad lost at the fair.
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