Broken Social Scene - Windsurfing Nation: OCTOBER 4th.

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Canadian rock act Broken Social Scene's highly anticipated new album has been christened "Windsurfing Nation" and is scheduled for an Oct. 4 release via Arts & Crafts, Billboard.com has learned. The set is expected to feature such tracks as "Handjobs for the Holidays," "Superconnected," "Shoreline" and "It's All Gonna Break."

The group recently completed a European tour and has a handful of North American shows on tap this summer, including a previously announced July 14 appearance in New York with the reunited Dinosaur Jr.

"Windsurfing Nation" will be the follow-up to 2002's "You Forgot It in People," which has sold 75,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. As previously reported, the group is also slated to participate in a remix album for fellow Canadian outfit Stars' recent Arts & Craft release, "Set Yourself on Fire."

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000964018

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

bump

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

in before 'meh'

― harshaw (jube), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

I really like the title of this album.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

According to every collaborative filtering engine known to teh Internets, from Amazon to Audioscrobbler to Launch to Musicplasma, I am the Biggest BSS Fan EVER.

So I finally listened to You Forgot It In People. And you know what? Meh.

Kinda like what I've heard of Stars though...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

It took me 3 years to appreciate this album. I even sold it back, but ripped a back up copy just in case. And now I'm so into it. Also, I love the live cover of "Lover's Spit" by Feist that was on one of the MP3 blogs recently.

― On an All El Cholo Diet (Ben Boyer), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

If they had less instrumentals on it, it would be one of the best albums of the decade. As it is, You Forgot It In People has to settle for one of the best album sides of the decade.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

El Cholo, this is exactly what I'm afraid of, and I suspect that it will indeed happen to me. Collaborative filtering engines are always right in the end...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 17 June 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

ooo i find them very very very bland. but the title of this is nice.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 18 June 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

Kinda like what I've heard of Stars though...

that's because stars is 100x better than BSS

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 June 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I never did get around to buying the old one but it seems like they were a bit bigger than 75,000 copies.

I do want to hear this one.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 18 June 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

more shit track titles

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

"Shoreline":

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2KHMEGIPLJ7662HDDYVZ3UM85H

I think this is the first single

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

I would like to take this opportunity to re-iterate how much this album title rules.

I hope they think it's as funny as I do.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

The first x copies of this are coming with an extra EP of new material, btw.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

There's a live version of a new BSS song called "New Country" floating around soulseek. Highly, highly, highly recommended.

I can yousendit if somebody is kind enough to tell me how. I'm not sure how to yousendit to a message board.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

go to yousendit.com & enter your own email address as recipient

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

i really hope for broken's sake that "shoreline" is not the single

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

I don't have much love for that song. But I don't really see how it matters what the "single" is, unless they're actually going to push for non-college radio play.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

This is a live version of the song New Country...

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2D9NIP2BSDAZ934S8E1R4CHHQR

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

should they not bother with a video either, sean?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

didn't they just put an album out?

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

oh I totally confused them with someone else. this is great though

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

mark - well of course they can if they want, but unless it's a breakthrough sounding song, I wouldn't bother spending too much money on it!

Waaay too many bands pay for videos that never get used. This is actually ok, as it gives a lot of young filmmakers a chance, but it's certainly money that (in many cases) could have been better spent on gasoline.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

"Shoreline" is pretty good - not great, but good. I hope the live song, "New Country" is on the album - that one is great. I really like that what's her name from Fiest has a strong presence on both tracks taking lead vox on sections along with the main dude. I'd say the album looks promising.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

what's her name from feist is Leslie Feist...

I'm a big fan of shoreline, and some of the other new ones, like Superconnected, and Major Label Debut.. I'm supah excited for this album...

― shudder redduhs (shudder), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Now if only they can do a European tour that actually includes the UK.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

new album update and tracklist

― Quinn (quinn), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

which was originally dubbed "Windsurfing Nation" but will now be a self-titled affai

...

Now why would they go and do a silly thing like that?

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

And what's the big idea, leaving New Country off the record? It better be on the one they're releasing in 2006.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Can anyone YSI the album if it's leaked?

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

"And what's the big idea, leaving New Country off the record? It better be on the one they're releasing in 2006"

no kidding... best song of the new ones, for sure.

I'm pretty sure it hasn't leaked yet. And the "studio" version of Shorline that's out is a cleaned up mp3 of Zed recording.

― Quinn (quinn), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

leaky leaky

here's a song:

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QO8HYX72ATN42NLQAMOXOZ7UW

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Sunday, 21 August 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh my. That's quite a song. As much as I hate easy comparisons, it sounds like Pavement meets MBV.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 21 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Damn, link is already gone...I want to go windsurfing

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 21 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

re-upped:

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0A8IZSIC34KZ23CVRY0KZTYRGY

― Jimmy_tango, Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

merci

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 21 August 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

i hear from hiponion the whole album has leaked
anybody got it?

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

i really dislike the production, eg on shorelines before the horns drop in: what's up with the volume? I hope the leak i have is actually the real human after all :)

― boem, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I love every overproduced minute of this.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

That "Dream of Pavement (A Better Half)" is an homage, right? I cannot remember the last time I had such a positive initial reaction to a song. The placement of the vocals in the mix is completely brilliant.

― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.arts-crafts.ca/bss/index2.html

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

nice little clever rant/poem there. not everyone can be sensible like sleater-kinney, i suppose.

(from Stairway To Heaven)
http://rapidshare.de/files/4219527/newbss.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/4219303/newbss.part2.rar.html

pwd: hobobill

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

This is easily the best record I've heard all year.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

i am loving it.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

YEP, THIS HAS MADE IT WAY INTO MY NUMBER 1 OF THE YEAR.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 26 August 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

but where's it's all gonna break?

― boem, Friday, 26 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

That's the one song that hasn't leaked yet. I'm glad, because now there'll be at least one surprise when the actual album comes out.

I still wish New Country would have been on this, but it probably wouldn't have fit, style-wise. This is one of the densest, most layered records I've ever heard. There's so much going on, even in the quieter songs.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised at the positive reaction here. Maybe it's my expectations, but I just find this to be a sprawling mess with little focus. The second half especially doesn't seem like it's going anywhere and I get the feeling like I'm listening to the same boring song on repeat.

I've only listened to it on headphones (at work), so maybe it sounds great on a pair of good speakers. I want to like this, but after many listens, I'm just not feeling this.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I can understand what you mean...it's certainly not a traditional "song" album. Like Loveless, it's all about the sound, and you either love it or don't.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I second Alex's sprawling mess comments. After hearing their previous album, I had been surpised to learn that they had something like 13 people in the band. On this one, it sounds like most of them are hippies with instruments picked up at random.

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

am i the only one who hates how the climax of shorelines sounds?

― boem, Friday, 26 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only one who thinks anyone who likes this band has falafel in their ears?

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

mmmmm ... falafel

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

am i the only one who hates how the climax of shorelines sounds?

no.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking about making anybody who doesn't love this album my musical bitch!

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm disappointed in this album.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

waitin' for an hour until i can download from alex in montreal. shoreline is really great-- but not so hot for Dreams...yet. it always takes me time :) looking forward to it tho'.

― waitin', Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Spent some time digesting this. I liked it a lot when I first heard it, but on subsequent listens what initially struck me as amusing is starting to sound like filler.

Ever been so stoned that when you hear a song you've never heard before it takes you a while to figure out that it's music? You just hear a bunch of random noises that don't ostensibly connect together, or connect together randomly, so you sit there with a crumpled brow trying to work it out in your poor befuddled head.

The new BSS has a lot of moments like that - sometimes those moments work ("Superconnected") and sometimes they don't ("Windsurfing Nation"). Sometimes the album is like trying to clean the house while you're really stoned. It's fun and it feels good but you don't get a lot done. And yeah, it does often sound like a tribute to Loveless.

BSS are strongest when they provide their patented ecstatic rushes of pop bliss + longing, but when the hooks disappear their ability to make compelling music does, too. Though there are some great songs scattered around here, there's nothing as pop-majestic as Cause=Time, Lover's Spit, or Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl.

I've heard about an EP being packaged with the first run of the CD, and also that there's another album's worth of material BSS have in the can for release as well. Maybe we'll get a full album's worth of good material out of that flood.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Well put.

I must say my initial excitement over this record has not lasted. At first I loved it just for the sheer ambitiousness and (over)production, but when I went back a couple days later to play my favorite song, I couldn't think of one. I am holding out hope for the next record, they better put New Country on that one.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I still think this is superfantastic. I never saw the last record as an album of songs - it wasn't full of hits for me, just an hour of exciting sound, flashes of melody. And the new one is the same, but maybe it's even -more- exciting... I am flabbergasted that they managed to pull it off, an album with similar vivacity but that doesn't feel like a retread. It's a definite contender for album of the year.

The EP, unfortunately, is uh filler (imho). Lots of instrumentals that sound really interesting at first but don't go anywhere - experiments in sound.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

I really really like it, but "It's All Gonna Break" is awfully intense - the first line is "when I was a kid / you fucked me in the ass!". Oh my.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 September 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

i think this just might be my favorite album of the year.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

i agree with those calling it the best album of the year

i cant wait to see them in november.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

WE HATE YOUR HATE!

= I laughed so hard, I still haven't actually LISTENED to the record.
(that and I am busy replaying the new My Morning Jacket)

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

this is a really good album actually. it took a while to grow on me, but i really like it. especially "hotel".

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

This is easily my favorite record of the last weeks (next to the new Motorpsycho record). I really like the density of the sound as a whole.

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

i like the fact it sounds like all the entire boo radleys back catalogue playing at once.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

marcello wrote a great piece on the album, recently.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

always loved the first song on this... the most wordy 'wordless' vocal i've ever heard. it's gibberish vocalizing, but i'm always straining to understand what's being sung

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 08:22 (eight years ago)

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