![]() Ariel Engle’s wordless cooing counterbalances the mechanic beat, blanketing the track with feminine softness. It cascades into the rolling thunder of “Remember Me Young”, a mostly instrumental throwback that touches upon the tone and power of 2002’s You Forgot It In People with a 2019 sensibility. It’s over in less than a minute, but there’s something incredibly compelling in its forty-eight seconds - an intangible quality that suggests a whole other life on the other side of the fade out. 1 opens with “The Sweet Sea”, a slight instrumental that’s less concerned with making a statement and more about getting your attention. Two EPs of five songs each that build textures, set moods, and immerse listeners in a 360° virtual music reality divorced from the Broken Social Scene dogma that dogged their last record. In particular, two EPs released two months apart, that make a sort-of composite whole: Let’s Try the After Volumes 1 and 2. I don’t want to write about Broken Social Scene the collective band, I just want to write about their music. ![]() But if I did all that, this post would read like every other blog post/review about Broken Social Scene since they rolled out Hug of Thunder in 2017 and we already know how I felt about that album. I could open this post with a waxing recap of Broken Social Scene’s illustrious career and the defining moments of their musical heritage or a roll call of the band’s rotating roster and their various offshoot musical projects. ![]()
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