Gone is the softly softly approach that characterized You Forgot It In People and Self Titled, replaced instead with a breathtaking certainty that the band has only ever dabbled in before. It’s a celebration of exactly that top-of-the-pyramid sentiment which the Scene finds themselves embroiled in. And soul it has, in abundance.įor one, they called it Forgiveness Rock Record for a reason.
If you can get this about Broken Social Scene, you can get exactly where Rock Record forges its identity and finds it’s soul. What does this have to do with the band’s latest, Forgiveness Rock Record? Answer: Everything. What this means of course, is that the pyramid of envy that Broken Social Scene find themselves sitting on isn’t just a matter of playing amazing music, but having that oh-so-longed for air of authenticity that just about everyone is out for. In other words, the band were discovered among a scene, not simply a stand alone phenomenon unto themselves. Cue the settling of dust, with the musical arbiters and lovers having groped their way around the darkness of the emerging scene – and in the middle of it all? The Scene, playing a gorgeous mix of viscerally moving indie and harder edged rock outs to near perfection. Rewind, oh, five or six years back, and this becomes glaringly obvious: There’s excitement in the air, Metric is just beginning to bang out their brand of radio friendly rock, Godspeed You! Black Emperor are off single-handedly defining post-rock, Feist is doing the singer-songwriter thing and the Arcade Fire, well, the Arcade Fire are being fucking awesome.īut none of these guys (and gals) can really provide a touchstone to ground it all: Metric are too easy, GY!BE are too cerebral, Feist is too womanly, and the Arcade Fire are just too damn strange. And even if, say, I’m getting the musical topology all wrong, the intriguing point is that the Scene’s ascension didn’t happen in a blaze of glory, but rather in really weird sort of reverse way. become a staple nestled in-between every self respecting indie kid’s Playlist of Cool, but they’re practically the shiny, glowing sun holding together an entire musical universe of other bands – that sprawlingly beautiful, artfully infused rock that’s crept up all across the musical landscape? (Stars, Alcoholic Faith Mission, Pomegranates – the usual suspects) – Yeah, that was Broken Social Scene’s doing.
Toronto based indie rockers Broken Social Scene are about as high as it gets when it comes to the pyramid of envy right about now. Review Summary: The Kings and Queens of Canadian indie-rock revel in their reign.
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