Those could be your hands clapping in “ Stars and Sons” that could be your duet in “ Almost Crimes”.Īnd even when they weren’t singing with you, they were at least singing for you. For all their grandeur, Broken Social Scene never feels like anything more than a bunch of people playing around together these songs are more inclusive than their indie cred suggests. The core of YFIIP was crafted by a group of ten musicians and their closest friends, including members of Do Make Say Think, Metric, Stars, and Feist. It feels appropriate that I associate this album with friendship more than I do any other. You Forgot It In People will forever sound like 2004 in Baton Rouge, LA, at 3 in the morning. I’ll spare you the details of my life, but only because I imagine it’s a pretty common story for music lovers: I went to college, I found people like me, and we listened to this album. Maybe it’s a romantic sentiment, but music works like some aural madeleine, carrying dense and indulgent sensory memories that go deeper than the textures of the notes and melodies and into some–well, okay, it is a romantic sentiment, but if we’ve all brushed off romance, then we probably already don’t like Broken Social Scene.įor me, there is no record this decade more evocative of time and place - chronological time in my life and geological place in the world - than Broken Social Scene’s beautiful You Forgot It In People. As Justin said in his Decade entry on Sufjan Stevens’ Michigan, some albums feel intrinsically linked to the experience of listening to them.
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