Broken Social Scene: s/t

So after trying to get the new Broken Social Scene pre-release and finally just accepting that wasn't going to happen and I buckled down and finally managed to get my hands on a copy. And let me tell you, it is good times. This CD is more than damn good, it's excellent. You Forgot It In People is a much more mellow experience, but this s/t takes facets of modern rocks and puts a Broken Social Scene twist on it that can't really be described. When I saw them at Summerstage during July and they played a few songs off their new album(one being It's All Gonna Break which is worth going to see them for alone, seeing how they turned it into an almost 20 minute spectacle) I knew that good things were being brewed up by these guys, but not even the magnitude of that show prepared me for how great this album is. Starting off with that rock feel, mellowing out in the middle of the album and finally descending into this amazing jazzy groove at the end, the spectrum of styles that this album encompasses shows you how those 11 members can truly pull together to make something so incredibly good.

Currently on a national and soon to be UK tour, BSS is embracing the amazingly positive reaction that the fans are giving this album and running with it. I heavily recommend you hit up one of these shows because these guys are just mind-blowing live and seeing such a large group of people able to coordinate themselves with such intricacy on stage while making amazing music at the same time is touching, to say the least.

Wednesday October 19, 2005		Kingston, ON		Grant Hall@Queens
Thursday October 20, 2005		Ottawa, ON		Capitol Music Theatre
Friday October 21, 2005		Montreal, QC		Metropolis
Saturday October 22, 2005		Boston, MA		Avalon Ballroom
Sunday October 23, 2005		Northampton, MA		Pearl Street
Monday October 24, 2005		Philadelphia, PA		Theatre of Living Arts
Wednesday October 26, 2005		Washington, DC		9:30 Club
Thursday October 27, 2005		Detriot, MI		Majestic Theatre
Friday October 28, 2005		Chicago, IL		Metro
Saturday October 29, 2005		Minneapolis, MI		First Ave
Monday October 31, 2005		Lawrence, KS		Granada
Tuesday November 1, 2005		Boulder, CO		Boulder Theatre
Thursday November 3, 2005		Austin, TX		Stubbs
Friday November 4, 2005		Dallas, TX		Gypsy Tea Room
Tuesday November 8, 2005		Los Angeles, CA		Fonda Theatre
Wednesday November 9, 2005		San Francisco, CA		The Grand
Friday November 11, 2005		Portland, OR		Roseland
Saturday November 12, 2005		Seattle, WA		Showbox Theatre
Sunday November 13, 2005		Vancouver, BC		Commodore Ballroom
Tuesday November 15, 2005		Calgary, AB		MacEwan Hall
Thursday November 17, 2005		Edmonton, AB		Reds
Friday November 18, 2005		Saskatoon, SK		Amigos
Saturday November 19, 2005		Winnipeg, MB		Rendezvous
Tuesday November 29, 2005		London, UK		Barfly
Thursday December 1, 2005		Vienna, Austria		Szene Wien
Friday December 2, 2005		Fribourg, Switzerland		Fri-Son
Saturday December 3, 2005		Munich , Germany		Feierwerk
Monday December 5, 2005		Berlin, Germany		Postbahnhof
Tuesday December 6, 2005		Copenhagen, Denmark		Loppen
Wednesay December 7, 2005		Stockholm, Sweden		Kagelbanan
Thursday December 8, 2005		Oslo, Norway		John Dee
Saturday December 10, 2005		Hamburg, Germany		Knust
Sunday December 11, 2005		Frankfurt, Germany		Mousonturm
Tuesday December 13, 2005		Cologne, Germany		Prime Club
Wednesday December 14, 2005		Amsterdam, Netherlands		Melkweg
Thursday December 15, 2005		Brussels, Belgium		Ab Box
Friday December 16, 2005		Paris, France		La Maroquinerie
Saturday December 17, 2005		Den Haag, Netherlands		State X New Forms Festival
Monday December 19, 2005		London, UK		Cargo

Check them out on Arts & Crafts productions where you can buy this and other releases.

mp3: 7/4(Shoreline) one of my favorite tracks off this s/t

enjoi