Forgiveness Rock Record

Forgiveness Rock Record is available now and was co-produced by the band and Tortoise's John McEntire at Soma Studios in Chicago, with additional recording at Giant Studio and The Schvitz Studio in Toronto.

With production assistance from John McEntire, the Canadian indie rock kingpins return, tighter and more polished than ever.

There’s a bigness to Broken Social Scene that often works against the band’s attempts at off-the-cuff indie-rock, even as it helps set it apart. The ad hoc Toronto group’s fourth album Forgiveness Rock Record features a smaller core of musicians than usual, and has producer John McEntire enforcing some discipline, but…

Canadian collective’s latest is just too much

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As the founding fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters of the "indie rock collective” phenomenon, Broken Social Scene sure have spread their seeds since their eponymous third album in 2005.

Written by a core of six players and produced by John McEntire instead of longtime producer David Newfeld, Forgiveness Rock Record represents a different Broken Social Scene than the collective that broke out of Toronto in the early 2000s.

Forgiveness, Broken Social Scene doesn’t have many reasons to apologize.

<p>The Toronto collective have produced an album with barely a dud, reckons <strong>Will Dean</strong></p>

Album Reviews: Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record