Broken Social Scene

10/21/2005 9:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Rob O'Connor

Their members perform in a variety of acts from Feist to Metric to Stars to Jason Collett (which, oddly, features a guy named Jason Collett!), so it gets a little confusing sometimes as to whether the chicken comes before the egg and if you put the cart before the horse if any of the apples are actually for sale. But that’s life when you’re Canadian. You can do what you want to. And for their third album Broken Social Scene have decided to clean house and issue a thick, impenetrable mass of sonic free-for-all where you imagine the ambitions of the Cure, the Pink Floyd, the Dinosaur Jr, the Spoon and whatever the kids today are listening to all grinded up into staccato moments of melody, poetry, memory and rhythm. You have to wonder how anyone controls this group. With more members than a summer camp squad (15 and counting), surely someone’s likely to get crushed during the obligatory game of pile-on.