BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE "You F ...

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 19, 2004 | Copyright information

Released two years ago in the band's native Canada but not available till 2003 south of the border, Broken Social Scene's "You Forgot It in People" became one of last year's most acclaimed indie- rock albums. It's not just the group's reputation that developed gradually -- so did its membership, growing from two to 10. If that expanded lineup suggests Toronto's answer to Belle & Sebastian, so do such elaborately arranged chamber-pop numbers as "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl." Yet the ...

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