Once a two-person basement recording project, Broken Social Scene came to life onstage as a shadowy improvisational entity with a revolving-door roster, each concert a wholly unique experience dependent on the room, the weather, what they ate for dinner that night, and who was dropping in to play. Despite being a compilation, it has the same cohesion of a meticulously considered full length album with all the familiar euphoric highs and meditative lows. T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Toronto indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene’s Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities is a career-spanning collection of B-sides, rarities, and outtakes pulled from 20 years of 7″ singles, compilations, soundtracks, and hard-to-find releases. Come back on Saturday to watch my interview with co-founder Brendan Canning, who breaks down these songs, explains what separates an A-side from an leftover, dishes on a terrible movie he scored and reveals which bandmember drives him crazy by continually putting the goddamn cheese platter in the fridge. All told, considering that these cuts span 15 years, multiple producers, studios and lineups, the whole thing holds almost together well enough to qualify as a new BSS studio album. And a couple of others are downright historic essentials. In fact, a few tracks might even knock some of those familiar numbers off your personal BSS playlist. Truth is, most of the rarities and outtakes Old Dead Young are every bit as good as anything that made the cut on their five official albums (six if you count their two Let’s Try The After EPs as one release). But this is no tossed-off, cobbled-together pile of duds and half-baked junk. Don’t let that subtitle deter you - yes, this is a compilation of musical orphans from beloved Toronto indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene.
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