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4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (23 Jan 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Limited Edition
  • Label: City Slang
  • ASIN: B000B8T1E2
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,253 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Our faces split the coast in half [vocals by Feist, featuring Murray Lightburn on guitar]
2. Ibi dreams of pavement (a better day)
3. 7/4 (shoreline) [vocals by Feist]
4. Finish your collapse and stay for breakfast
5. Major label debut
6. Fire eye’d boy
7. Windsurfing nation [vocals by Feist and k-os]
8. Swimmers [vocals by Emily Haines]
9. Hotel
10. Handjobs for the holidays
See all 14 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Her disappearing theme
2. Canada vs America
3. Baroque social
4. No smiling darkness
5. All my friends
6. Major Label debut (fast)
7. Feel good lost reprise

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Broken Social Scene are a Canadian collective made up of members of established Toronto bands such as A Silver Mt Zion, Stars and Do Make Say Think. The crew caused a splash in 2002 with their formidable You Forgot It In People, which went on to win a Canadian JUNO. The subsequent pressure for a follow-up has been immense but they’ve managed to come up trumps with this eponymous offering.

Producer Dave Newfeld nurtures the same meticulously shambolic production style that made YFIIP such a messy joy, encouraging the band to embrace an even more sprawling and inventive aesthetic. Tracks "bleed" into one another like Rothko colours, but the sheer amount of people involved--ten key members plus several guests including Feist and rapper K-Os--lend the project a quite astonishing diversity. Despite a dense squall of sound often obscuring lyrics and sonic detail, the collective’s sub-pop chops consistently ring out in a triumphant flurry of catchy hooks, hypnotic riffs and compelling melodies. As big as the sky and as fluid as a dream, Broken Social Scene is that rare thing: an experimental album that actually rocks. --Paul Sullivan

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Gateway to all of Canada., 24 Mar 2006
This review is from: Broken Social Scene (Audio CD)
Canada is better than us. If the world is a school playground then Canada has just stolen the UK's girlfriend by being better and cooler, and who cares? The UK wasn't treating her right!

As if to flex the national musical muscle, nearly all of the best artists in the country gang together to form Broken Social Scene and create an album of utter brilliance. They're kind of like the Justice League of Canada except without Spandex. I could pick out individual songs but it'd just read like the tracklisting with me gushing between each one, so I won't bother.

And just to make us look worse, if you follow the threads of the collaborators you'll only find more and more astonishing albums; 'Let it Die' by Feist, 'Folkloric Feel' Apostle of Hustle, Both Stars albums, By Divine Right - Also have a look at 'Reverie Sound Revue' since Lisa Lobsinger is now a full time member of BSS.

If I was going to pick out one problem with the album it's the fact that I will never be able to join the band firstly because I'm not from Canada and secondly because I have no talent. But I can dream can't I?

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but noisy!, 22 Mar 2007
By Mr. M. Read "mdaread" (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Broken Social Scene (Audio CD)
Great songs but my only criticism is that it's sometimes difficult to pick out the great tunes through the noise. There's a lot going on on this album almost constantly. Sometimes that's great but sometimes it just gets too much and everything gets lost in the cacophony. Still gets 4 stars though.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A pretty mess., 4 May 2006
By G. Neish "mewzo geek" (Aberdeen) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Broken Social Scene (Audio CD)
I picked this album up in my local 1up store just out of curiosity, i'd never heard any of their songs, heard no hype in the "big Spin" e.t.c. plus i was attracted to the cover.
Expect something along the lines of arcade fire and sigur ros. there are no real gaps in the sound, most songs build up and build up into this big messy, atmospheric dreamscape you could almost get lost in when listened to in headphones.lol.
the singing isnt the most melodic i've heard but has a distinctive numbness to it nontheless. brilliant album, one of those hidden gems.
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I assume that people were too busy listening to this collective's must more hyped not-actually-a-debut debut album to give this self-titled gem a fair listen. Read more
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This was the first Broken Social Scene album that I have listened to. I bought it after reading one review, and didn't really know what to expect. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2006 by Harold Bishop

3.0 out of 5 stars A Scene that could have done with some judicious editing
Canada is now the coolest, grooviest place on the planet right?…..Thanks to bands like The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2006 by russell clarke

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Imagine a patchwork quilt. Expansive, eclectic; bearing the touch of numerous caring benefactors. It has scores of different colours, textures and techniques; brought together to... Read more
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