Broken Social Scene (album)
Third studio album by Broken Social Scene, released 2005.
The working title for the album was Windsurfing Nation.[1] A cartoon of Pangaea was initially chosen as the cover art, but Kevin Drew, the lead singer, created a drawing that replaced it.[1]
Quick Facts
- Artist
- Broken Social Scene
- Released
- October 4, 2005
- Recorded
- 2004–2005
- Genre
- Indie rock
- Length
- 63:08
- Label
- Arts & Crafts
- Producer
- David Newfeld
Facts from the source article.
Making and release
Kaslik stated the novel is "definitely based on a world that I know" but warned against identifying individual people.[2] She said it would be "mistaken and scurrilous" to connect characters to Kevin Drew, Emily Haines, or Amy Millan.[2] The looser songs were praised by some critics and derided by others as self-indulgent and sloppy.[3] As of 2008, US sales exceeded 108,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.[3]
Canadian novelist Ibi Kaslik, a friend of the band, is referenced in the song "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)".[2] Some have proposed that a band in Kaslik's second novel, The Angel Riots, is modeled after Broken Social Scene.[2] Compared to the 2002 release You Forgot It in People, this album generated a more polarized response from critics.[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Broken Social Scene (album)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Perez, "Broken Social Scene's Hard Road To Windsurfing Nation - Music, Celebrity, Artist News", MTV, 2005-07-15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Broken Social Scene (album)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wagner, "Kaslik draws on indie band connection for novel", The Toronto Star, 2008-03-27; Wagner, "Kaslik draws on indie band connection for novel", The Toronto Star, 2008-03-27 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Broken Social Scene (album)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Schoeneman, "All Revved up to Rock", The New York Times, 20 September 2008 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Broken Social Scene (album) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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