- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Release Date: May 4, 2010
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 54 Ratings
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Positive: 41 out of 54
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Mixed: 6 out of 54
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Negative: 7 out of 54
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stvmtyMay 30, 2010A good album but it was a little harder to get into. Even when its a poppy album it doesn't sound like BSS at a first listen, it doesn't have that summer-beach sound that the band had the past albums.
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t$M.May 5, 2010The best BSS album since You Forget it in People. You can't expect a better album than that, so it was worth the wait.
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BrendanMay 5, 2010Their most commercial and polished record. Has its moments.
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AdrianKMay 20, 2010Despite of the last track a very good and enjoyable album.
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JoshuaHMay 4, 2010Their best work to date, an album that requires several listens before its layers are fully appreciated.
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MikeWMay 4, 2010
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JeffLMay 4, 2010Its good to have so much new music from BSS. It is less produced, more rockish, and sounds more like a group of folks who just like to play good music together. Its refreshing all the way through.
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TimSMay 5, 2010It's fantastic. Bottom line. It's not nearly as spectacular as "You Forgot It In People," but BSS have overcome a series of middling solo projects to produce another stellar effort.
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AFanMay 5, 2010Classic! Are you kidding me? This is soooo good.
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Dec 4, 2010Album of the year. Hands down. Forgiveness Rock Record is one of those album that you appreciate more and more with repeated listens. So if you haven't listened a thousands times, get on it. It isn't quite YFIIP. But it's close. And that's saying something. YFFIP is maybe the album of the decade. I love this band. I hope we don't have to wait another five years for more music.
Awards & Rankings
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Though clearly as replete with imagination as they are with personnel, Broken Social Scene would benefit from the attentions of a less indulgent producer.
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Their fourth full-length has certain recurring quirks: skittery hi-hats, guitar lines to whistle along to, junk poetry sneered as if into a wind chamber. Blame a new emphasis on songwriting, never their strength, over sound-making.
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It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams.