(FRR) on the same day as The New Pornographers put out Toghether (perhaps a bizzaro-Canadian version of the 50 Cent vs. Kanye battle?). I'm not sure about the sales figures of the respective albums (my money would be on TNP), but as far as brilliance, the nod goes -- rather easily -- to Broken Social Scene (BSS).I'd never been much of a BSS fan. My brother-in-law introduced me to the band back in '05, so I picked up their self-titled double-disc album
, but I could only get into about half the tracks (skipping the other half; the same holds true for You Forgot It In People
). FRR, however, doesn't have a throwaway track; pretty much every other song is a favorite and there is no skipping involved (and that's without much involvement from Leslie Feist). Of the album's thirteen tracks, I rated seven of them as four- or five-star tracks.
