This week’s “weekly album” is coming two days late due to me getting my hands on the below review. Every now and again, I have a tough time making Pitchfork’s site work… dunno why. Anyway, nothing very new this week, but absolutely one of my favorite albums! I came across this album via the old fashion way, word-of-mouth from a friend. Well, more word-of-his-computer. Kyle was and had been listening to them for a while and one day I walked into his room and finally ask who was making this wonderful noise. With the reply “Broken Social Scene,” I was hooked. Thanks, Kyle!
Rating: 9.2
You Forgot It in People explodes with song after song of endlessly replayable, perfect pop. For proof, pick virtually any track: the sound barrier-bursting anthem “Almost Crimes”, the subdued, gossamer “Looks Just like the Sun”, the Dinosaur Jr.-tinted “Cause = Time”, or the shimmering, Jeff Buckley-esque “Lover’s Spit”. And there’s plenty more where that came from. How about the chugging guitar-pop of “Stars and Sons”, which spins a distant, churning keyboard drone beneath the best moments of Spoon’s Girls Can Tell and punctuates it with a barrage of percussive handclaps. Or “Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl” which showcases Emily Haines’ melting alto caught in a beautiful, cyclical refrain and intensely modified by vocal effects while violins float atop subtle banjo plucking and cascading toms. Or “KC Accidental”, which blasts searing, super-melodic guitar, a drumkit alternately galloping and relentlessly beaten, and an impenetrable wall of accelerating orchestration, before crash-landing into a deliquescent pop lullaby.
Quoted from Pitchfork