Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Record | CD review

(City Slang)The famously inclusive Canadian collective have often seemed like one big extended family, a wholly unbroken social scene of collaborative indie harmony. But, for their fourth studio album, they've pared their line-up to a modest seven. Not that this tightening of personnel is detectable in their biggest – and at times, baggiest – record yet. Its sprawling rovings reward serious time spent listening but there are plenty of immediate pleasures along the way, bookended by the anthe...

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