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- Summary: The third full-length solo release for the Broken Social Scene co-founder features contributions from Sam Goldberg and Justin Peroff as well as The Stills' Liam O'Neil.
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- Record Label: Arts & Crafts
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Aug 11, 2016This is feel-good music. On Home Wrecking Years, Canning has developed a sound that is genuine, heartfelt and liberating.
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Aug 11, 2016While it would be interesting to see how some verbal clarity could also evolve Canning’s songwriting, the music alone is enough of a fascinating detour for him as an artist.
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Aug 11, 2016If there’s a fault to be found with the record it may be that the middle of the record falls into a hazy, smoke-filled sameness. That sameness lifts over time, though, especially as one digs in with headphones and lets the record’s deepest mysteries unravel, moment by moment and beat by beat.
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Sep 7, 2016As a whole, Home Wrecking Years is worth a number of complete spins to let it decant and work its magic.
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Aug 11, 2016The beloved trademarks of Broken Social Scene surface throughout in the extended background horn lines that make your heart swell a little, the driving bass that give a bounce to your sway, the cymbals that have just the right amount of clash, and of course, the angelic supporting vocals that enchant a song in the way Leslie Feist, Amy Millan, and Emily Haines used to.
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Aug 24, 2016Home Wrecking Years feels like a guy just filling in the downtime before he gets back to work with his main band.