Product Description

The debut album from Toronto-based collective Broken SocialScene reveals the band's lo-fi, post-rock roots. Here layers of droning guitar lines drift under gently plucked notes, while warm ambient loopscapes build up to eruptions of real drums. From the opening track on, things circle and sprawl, almost, but not quite, building to big Godspeed You Black Emperor-esque crescendos. A standout track is "Passport Radio", which seethes with fuzzy, deconstructed ambience, as if the Broken Social Scene rocket got caught in the fuzz-texturedorbit of KID A-era Radiohead.
Things get almost jazzy with the ghost footprint of a horn section on the slightly up-tempo "Alive in 85". "Mossbraker" features scraping strings occasionally finding a melody as they intertwine over a burbling sonic stream. Listeners riding in on the giddy high of the Scene's benchmark classic YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE might wonder where all the vocals and brilliant temporal shifts went, but after a few deep listens, FEEL GOOD LOST's experimental wanderings prove just as beguiling.

Track Listing

1. I Slept With Bonhomme at the CBC
2. Guilty Cubicles
3. Love and Mathematics
4. Passport Radio
5. Alive in 85
6. Prison Province
7. Blues for Uncle Gibb
8. Stomach Song
9. Mossbraker
10. Feel Good Lost
11. Last Place
12. Cranley's Gonna Make it

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30400 in Music
• Released on: 2005-01-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

Slumbering and laid back
The first CD from Broken Social Scene is a warm, laid back affair, bearing very little in common with their stellar second release (You Forgot It In People). Mainly improvised I suspect, but the quality of muscianship keeps the whole thing together to create something expansive and eminently tuneful. They occassionally wibble off into territory that sounds a little suspect (pseudo-ambient that just sounds lazy to my ears), but they always seem to rescue things with another gorgeous instrumental pop song.