YFIIP b-side collection Bee Hives showed his interest in expanding his role and exploring new production territory with the band, and BSS sees that impulse moving forward. The production on BSS is nothing short of overwhelming Newfeld is mixing more tracks than ever, reportedly one song involved as many as 170, and he also clearly chose to take on a more involved role. He was able to take the influences of all those members and make them work, flow together, and, on occasion, push them further and integrate some gorgeous little flourishes of his own into the mix (just listen to the backing vocals on “Shampoo Suicide”). Newfeld, a relative unknown at the time of release of YFIIP and also very much a member of the band, was in some ways the deciding factor on that last album. Two problems emerge with BSS: Dave Newfeld's over-thought production and Drew/Brendan Canning's lyrics. We don't live up to what label and promotion people want us to be - we're not about that." Which is fine, but it also leaves BSS pretty far short of the great record status that YFIIP so richly deserved. We the catchiest singles from the record. We're not going to the 'next level.' We made a dirty-sounding, right/wrong record. This isn’t all just a totally crack-pot theory, by the way talking to MTV, BSS co-founder Kevin Drew said: "It's not a record that's going to the masses. Why not stake out and better define this sort of post-rock take on pop which they spearheaded on YFIIP? Get the whole gang together (hell, why not add a few more members) and just settle back and make a record for yourselves. While still an impressive record in its own right, Broken Social Scene never reaches those same heights nor has that same immediate emotional pull of YFIIP.īut it's unrealistic to expect BSS to either be able to or want to follow up YFIIP with something as equally beautiful and innovative.
Thing is, that approach isn’t really gonna work with the band's eponymous follow-up. Try the avant-pop argument and you get some guy stubbornly arguing that "pop music should be dumbed down." I often resort to just putting “Cause=Time,” “Almost Crimes,” or “Lover’s Spit” on repeat and then gesticulating wildly in the general direction of the stereo.
#Broken social scene looks just like the sun full
Point out that it’s full of the sort of huge, soaring indie anthems that the likes of the Arcade Fire could only hope for and you get people griping that it also has four instrumentals and a few tracks that go nowhere at all (yeah, I’m talking about you “Looks Just Like the Sun”).
It’s hard sometimes to explain to people that don’t get it why Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot it in People is such a great album.
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