The lyrical impetus of the album peaks with the moving six-minute dirge Lover's Spit, sung in a tone that borrows from both Lou Reed and Bob Dylan at a funereal tempo against the backdrop of a horn fanfare. The exotic twang-driven muzak of the instrumental Pacific Theme. Shampoo Suicide (from Latin-funky shuffles a` la Santana to eerie bacchanals), Stars and Sons (from mellow soul-pop to surreal dissonant freak-out), Solos, but the ones in which the music gently morphs into its own negation: The most memorable moments are not the melodies or the guitar riffs or the To poppy Dinosaur Jr-esque work-outs ( Cause = Time, with one of To Latin-tinged folk-rock ( Looks Just Like the Sun),įrom childish folk lullaby ( Anthems for a Seventeen Year-old Girl, penned by vocalist Emily Haines) You Forgot It in People (Arts & Crafts, 2002), that employed 15 players.īookended by two brief instrumentals, the first one anĪmbient watercolor ( Capture the Flag) and the last oneĪ neoclassical interlude ( Pitter Patter Goes My Heart), The Stomach Song does the same thing to folk music, except that it addsīlossomed with the more robust and varied The seven-minute Blues for Uncle Gibb is indeed an old-fashioned blues, although recorded as if we were listening to it from a keyhole. The closer, Cranley's Gonna Make It, is an upbeat country-rock shuffle. The electro-orchestral lull of Passport Radio dilates and distorts a soul ballad. The drums trigger the metamorphoses of Love and Mathematics, from jazzy interlude to minimalist iteration to emphatic crescendo. I Slept With Bonhomme at the CBC harkens back to the minimalist nostalgic chamber music a` la Penguin Cafè Orchestra. To the gently droning and looping eight-minute Last Place, the most
To the dissonant violin lullaby Mossbraker Impressionist watercolor Guilty Cubicles to the Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, debuted withįeel Good Lost (Arts & Crafts, 2001), a low-key (mostly instrumental)Ītmospheric fresco made of many interlocking parts, from the Jason Collett: Song and Dance Man (2016), 5/10īroken Social Scene, hailing from Toronto (Canada) and led by Jason Collett: Here's to Being Here (2008), 5/10 Jason Collett: Idols Of Exile (2006), 6.5/10 Jason Collett: Motor Motel Love Songs (2003), 5/10 Jason Collett: Bitter Beauty (2002), 6/10 ( Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use) Broken Social Scene: biography, discography, reviews, best albums, ratings
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