![]() ![]() Perhaps unintentionally, Broken Social Scene’s new compilation Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities strikes as more than just a random assembly of curiosities. A Broken Social Scene record is always a curious paradox: a tour de force of sprawling, ambitious art-rock that somehow feels conceived by winging the fuck out of it. Even if you’re riding pine one night, you could score 40 the next. But today, a band operating as a proxy-family feels more fashionable than ever with outfits such as Crack Cloud or Black Country, New Road prowling the stages. This communal-driven hierarchy felt a bit like a novelty back in the 00s when the garage rock revival recalled more traditional notions of ‘the rock lifestyle’, for lack of a better word. Two decades after the stratospheric You Forgot It In People, it’s as if founders Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning can’t help but create towering indie rock anthems rife with graceful left turns and zealous, sound barrier-shattering takeoffs.Ī typical Broken Social Scene track progresses much like their tried-and-true creative dynamic: a vast range of aural eurekas democratically coalescing, shapeshifting, and exploding/imploding. Maybe it’s more the inverse of that: a bunch of gifted goofballs making inventiveness seem almost complacent. Okay, maybe not ageless like a band strung on unsentimentally reinventing themselves with each record. ![]() And so I think about it: Broken Social Scene are kind of an ageless band. ![]()
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