Saw this reviewed on Pitchfork, I always liked the early Broken Social Scene stuff, and this is kind of its prequel, featuring many of the same members. This was recently released with #234 as a single disc, but I have different feelings about the two, and they were originally separate, so:
This is the good one of the two. Its all propulsive beats, repetitive guitar lines, hints of experimentation and tons of fuzz, like The Microphones go Krautrock. It left me grinning, tapping my foot, with an eye through time. It has that BSS ability to evoke something bigger and mysterious and half-remembered, which makes the songs seem to stretch beyond themselves. Its not an everytime kind of album, dark and paced with priorities all its own, and it loses some momentum on the second half, but I will certainly revisit it. If nothing else, BSS diggers should hit this up just as an interesting big of lineage 4/5
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