Track Listing

1. Untitled
2. Market Fresh
3. Weddings
4. hHallmark
5. Backyards
6. Da Da Da Da
7. Ambulance For The Ambience
8. Time = Cause
9. Lover's Spit

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90829 in Music
• Released on: 2004-06-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .13 pounds

CD Description
In the wake of their breakthrough album, YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE, Toronto's Broken Social Scene released this compilation of B-sides, alternate versions, and previously unreleasedsongs. Fans dreading a mixed bag of lo-fi thrashing and half-finished demos can relax, as this collection coheres in a nicely mellow way that shows how the pop brilliance of PEOPLE connects to the largely instrumental outing FEEL GOOD LOST.
Most of the music here consists of multi-guitar drone, burbling synths, and live drum breaks, a combination that makes the Scene one of the more lovely and accessible post-rock outfits. "hHallmark" sounds like it could find a home withYo La Tengo, while the chimes and plucking of "Ambulance for the Ambience" recalls Aphex Twin in a good mood. Only two of the tracks have vocals: "Backyards" features Emily Haines(Metric), who adds a warm earthy touch to the avant-garde backdrop, while the other reconfigures "Lover's Spit" (from PEOPLE) with a mournful piano and Leslie Feist's heartbreaking singing. "Time = Cause" gets a boost from a Mick Jagger-style yowl that eventually drifts into the void with the rest of the noises, forming one beautiful, shimmering, droning whole.

Customer Reviews

Laid Back Ambience
Described as 'music for the come down' by the band themselves, this is very much a laid back companion piece to the completely awesome 'You Forgot It In People'. Some tracks verge on the almost ambient, and there's nothing wrong in that, but you really should be buying this for 'Backyards', the most gorgeous multi-layered pop song you've ever heard and a version of 'Lover's Spit' which is so laid back as to be virtually comatose. I love this band and so should you if you know what's good for you.

Very excellent
This is an interesting, lovely and musically diverse album, with some mellow tracks, some uptempo tracks, some inbetweeny. Like much of BSS, it's difficult to categorise ... which is nice. One of the tracks even sounds like Yes. Honestly! (This is just about the highest praise I can give.) Whatever it is they've put in the water over in Canada (eh?), it's working, as there is a plethora of brilliant bands; Arcade Fire, Besnard Lakes, BSS, Most Serene Republic, Rush (!!) and loads more. Probably. More than makes up for the collective, global psychological trauma of Dion. Well done Canada for being better then the baboon-for-a-president United States. Vive la Canada!