Broken Social Scene were Indie darlings in the early aughts, known for their ambient instrumentals and song structures that featured an eclectic collection of musicians. What I’ve always appreciated about the group is how freely their members floated in and out of the group. Over the course of their 25-year history as a band, Broken Social Scene has featured over 25 regular contributing members (yes, an average of one per year). You Forgot It In People hosts 14 members alone, ranging from full-time members of the band to members of other Indie powerhouse bands of the era like Metric, Stars, and Feist. The group is also unabashedly Canadian– from what I can tell all of their members claim the “Oh Canada” as their national anthem. It’s fun to imagine this Canadian Indie music mafia running around Toronto with their violins and tambourines and calling the shots in the underground music scene.
You Forgot It In People is a wonderful album, filled with textures and experimentation and musical eclecticism that bring each song to life. It sounds like a band of gypsys listened to a bunch of pop music, picked up electric guitars, and jammed together for a weekend with the tapes running and decided to keep their favorite takes from those sessions. It is organic, it is original, it is distinctly human.
It’s everything you want Indie rock to be.
Standout Songs: “Lovers Spit”, “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year Old Girl”, “KC Accidental”, “Stars and Sons”, “Cause = Time”
