![]() So would anybody who buys their future albums. Though clearly as replete with imagination as they are with personnel, Broken Social Scene would benefit from the attentions of a less indulgent producer. #BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE FORGIVENESS ROCK RECORD CRACKER#Ungrateful Little Father, initially a spare Eels-like ballad, feels like a highlight, but it may be that its apparent relative simplicity has the same appeal as being offered a plain cracker amidst six courses of extravagant gateaux – at least until it, too, outstays its welcome, nudging seven minutes, most of which is vacuous noodling evocative of a failure to tune in a shortwave radio. Meet Me in the Basement is an exuberant, stomping-gospel instrumental that sounds like it’s waiting for the Polyphonic Spree to contribute a suitably exultant chorus. Texico Bitches is dreamy, gentle indie-pop that recalls the canon assembled by legendary New Zealand label Flying Nun (The Chills, The Bats, et al) in the late 1980s. There are some great moments here – given the number of personnel deployed, the law of averages alone would have ensured that. By about halfway through, it’s difficult to be entirely confident that you didn’t play bass on a couple of tracks yourself. Even after what the accompanying press release calls a “paring down”, Broken Social Scene’s current core line-up still consists of no fewer than seven people, and the giddying roster of guest performers on Forgiveness Rock Record runs into double figures, including contributions by members of Stars, Metric, The Sea & Cake and The Weakerthans. Hilariously unwieldy hodge-podges like this usually are, and often in proportion to the size of the collective that created them. Inevitably, Forgiveness Rock Record is the result of the deliberations of a committee. ![]() Your payment information is processed securely. It’s not that the umpty-dimensional indie-prog melange presented here is objectionable – far from it – but that it’s so unfocused that it becomes difficult to perceive Broken Social Scene as anything but the musical equivalent of a chimpanzee typing pool: when they do come up with something lucid, it feels like it’s rather more by accident than design. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record 2LP Tracklist A1: World Sick Payment & Security. However, Forgiveness Rock Record – the fourth album by Canadian collective Broken Social Scene, and their first for five years – would have benefited immensely from brisk editing. It felt rushed and tried way to hard not seperate itself from any identity at all.) Forgiveness Rock Record is the result of 3 trips to the plastic surgeon with extensive work at the gym in between. Given that most albums suffer from a woeful dearth of ideas, it may seem somewhat perverse to criticise one for flourishing too many. Broken Social Scene (ST) was all over the place, and not exactly in a good way. ![]()
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