★★★★★
It was a surprising turn of events for everyone, including Broken Social Scene themselves; after scheduled performers Passion Pit backed out last minute due to illness, the technically defunct rock collective hauled up to WayHome to take their spot. The crowd was jazzed, but few more so than the performers themselves: with over a dozen players, including Stars' Amy Millan and Evan Cranley, the performance was a celebration of life's surprises and curveballs, such as the one that forged the set...
- exclaim.ca
2015-07-27
★★★★★
Sound: Like the tide of bands like the Stars and Metric, Broken Social Scene also uses some electronic sounds/beats, and some very interesting instruments along with the normal guitars, drums, bass instruments. They focus a lot more on sound than lyrics, and they try to find interesting ways to do new things. All of their music is very innovative and powering. It really moves you and takes you to another frame of mind...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify Broken Social Scene have always occupied a rather unique space in the modern indie-rock pantheon. In many ways they seem part of a bygone age, some earlier golden era when the dinosaurs of Pavement, Sonic Youth and Husker Du stalked the Earth, full of bite and irony...
- www.state.ie
2011-02-20
★★★★★
(Illustration by Natascha Malta)Title: Forgiveness Rock Record Artist: Broken Social Scene Label: Arts & Crafts Released: 4 May 2010 In one word: ExpansiveIt's hard not to associate the success of indie rock over the past 10 years with Broken Social Scene. Since the band/music collective's formation in 1999, many members have become indie stars in their own right, leaving a string of solo albums and side projects in their wake...
- www.musicvice.com
2011-01-19
★★★★★
Broken Social Scene's self-titled sophomore effort gets underway in a deceivingly relaxed manner as an acoustic guitar is strummed softly. That lasts all of 15 seconds before the horns and percussion instruments join in and chaos begins to reign. "Broken Social Scene," which follows 2002's excellent "You Forgot It in People," is as joyfully unwieldy and unpredictable as the band itself...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Already garnering more than their fair share of hype and column space, the Broken Social Scene are another in a long line of bands that have been exported from lands far, far, far away (well, Canada to be precise) only to be unleashed upon the Indie brethren amidst a media storm like no other. This strategy usually guarantees a sold out tour, top 20 gracing single, and an album that will feature in many an end of year poll... Surely things shouldn't be this easy...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-23
★★★★★
An at times overly ambitious follow-up to the international breakthrough You Forgot It in People, as evidenced in the opening track our faces split the coast in half - too many parts trying to be crammed into the whole: horn sections (which stand out throughout), muddled/slurred vocals and chorists, passages at odds with each other, and drum and guitar syncopations that repeat themselves over and over the length of the disc...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
I didn't really expect to fall for Broken Social Scene's newest album, Forgiveness Rock Record. I loved their 2002 release You Forgot It in People, still remember the first time I heard it, when I played a burned CD copy given to me by the boy I had a crush on at the time. I thought it was a near-perfect record...
- www.crawdaddy.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Back in the saddle, Toronto indie collective Broken Social Scene crank out their richest and most heavy album to date with fifth LP Forgiveness Rock Record. Chicago's John McEntire is entrusted with production duties, but there's little of the sonic experimentalism of either his well-known Tortoise records or previous BSS releases...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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