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Avg: 4.0 (83 ratings)
- Date Released: October 10, 2005
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: City Slang / V2 Records
A blurry, fractured, eclectic masterwork from an amorphous Canadian collective.
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We Say...
A collective of Canadian musicians gathered around the nucleus of co-founders Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, Broken Social Scene scotch the notion that avant-garde rock must by nature be brooding, ominous and dystopian. Their self-titled album is blurry, eclectic, fractured, misshapen pop arrived at by fuzzy logic. Yet it's imbued with that rarest of commodities in experimental music, a sense of sheer, vitamin joy. Opener "Our Faces Split the Coast in Half" gathers strength and pushes through like a ramshackle tornado of guitar and brass, sweeping the listener up in the process. As with previous too-many-cooks indie collectives like the Blue Aeroplanes, the feeling as a listener that there are so many of Broken Social Scene and only one of you cannot but raise a smile. Tracks like "Major Label Debut" and the hazy, fragmented, perfumed "Bandwidth" are off-key and off kilter, inducing double vision and prism effects. Yet it never feels shambolic or annoying; instead it adds to the bustle, vivacity and anarcho-syndicalist charm of the songs. "Fire Eye'd Boy" bursts like a sofa with ideas, with percussive breaks, deadpan solos and drones hovering in unexpectedly from all angles, while the absolutely beautiful "Swimmers" shimmers with mini-starbursts and musical epiphanies. This is one of the most uplifting and enriching albums of the decade.
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| 01. |  |
Our Faces Split The Coast In Half |
3:43 |
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| 02. | |
Ibi Dreams Of Pavement |
4:28 |
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| 03. |
7/4 (Shoreline) |
4:54 |
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| 04. | |
Finish Your Collapse And Stay For Breakfast |
1:25 |
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| 05. | |
Major Label Debut |
4:29 |
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| 06. | |
Fire Eye' D Boy |
4:00 |
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| 07. | |
Windsurfing Nation |
4:37 |
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| 08. | |
Swimmers |
2:56 |
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| 09. | |
Hotel |
4:36 |
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| 10. | |
Handjobs For The Holidays |
4:40 |
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| 11. | |
Superconnected |
5:40 |
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| 12. | |
Bandwitch |
6:59 |
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| 13. | |
Tremoloa Debut |
1:00 |
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| 14. | |
It's All Gonna Break |
9:55 |
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14 Total Tracks, 63:22 Total Length
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