Some 10 years after Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning first started laying down ambient instrumentals in a Toronto basement for their debut Broken Social Scene release Feel Good Lost, the band returns with Forgiveness Rock Record. As the title not too-subtly indicates, the new album is about making amends for past mistakes, and songs like “World Sick” (set amid “a minefield of wounded affection”) and the urgent rocker “Forced to Love” carry traces of interpersonal anxieties. But primarily, the mood is one of acceptance and moving on - and, by extension, of coming to terms with the differences between the Broken Social Scenes of 2002 and 2010. “It's the year 2010!” Canning excitedly declares on “Water in Hell,” effectively casting aside all the drama and uncertainty - not just for his own band's sake, but for anyone itching for a second chance or clean slate. What ultimately makes Forgiveness Rock Record a quintessential Broken Social Scene album is not a matter of who produced the record or who plays on what song, but how the emotions and sentiments expressed within resonate through your own lives and loves.

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