Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

I don’t know how to describe this album. The first song that ‘hit’ me was “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl.” I can’t even explain why. It’s hypnotic, and longing, and perhaps reminds me of that age myself. Who can argue with lines like “park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me”? On the whole this album has some stellar mellow moments, specifically in “Looks Just Like the Sun,” “I’m Still Your Fag” and “Pitter Patter Goes My Heart, a soft, string-soaked reprise of Anthems. There are some discordant distortion-based beauties here as well. Then there’s Lover’s Spit. “all these people drinking lover’s spit, they sit around and clean their face with it”… I’ll leave it to your interpretation.

Author: listener | Category: Music Reviews | July 2007