Broken Social Scene (album)

The album was originally to be titled Windsurfing Nation.^[2] Additionally, the original artwork was to be a cartoon rendition of Pangaea, which was later scrapped in favor of the current artwork drawn by lead singer Kevin Drew.

The song "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)" refers to Canadian novelist Ibi Kaslik, a friend of the band. It is also suggested that Broken Social Scene is used as basis for a band that appears in Kaslik's second novel The Angel Riots, about a rising indie rock band from Montreal. Kaslik attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts with members of the band and helped them on their first tour of Canada and the United States. Although Kaslik stated "It's definitely based on a world that I know", she brushed off claims that the connection goes very deep, saying "it would be mistaken and scurrilous to try to identify individual people".^[3] She warns against "scouring the pages for thinly disguised characterizations of [...] Kevin Drew, [...] Emily Haines or [...] Amy Millan".^[3]

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Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	82/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Blender	[6]
The Guardian	[7]
Mojo	[8]
NME	8/10[9]
Pitchfork	8.4/10[10]
Q	[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]
Spin	B+[13]
Uncut	[14]

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At the 2006 Juno Awards, it won the award for Alternative Album of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize.

However, the album divided critics more than its predecessor, 2002's You Forgot It in People. Whereas the earlier album had received almost universal critical praise, Broken Social Scene's looser, less structured songs were praised by some critics, but derided by others as self-indulgent and sloppy. Nevertheless, the album reached the number-one position on American college charts and received widespread critical acclaim in the UK.^{[citation needed]} As of 2008, sales in the United States have exceeded 108,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[15]

1. "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)" b/w "All the Gods" (2005, 7")
2. "7/4 (Shoreline)" b/w "Stars and Spit" (2006, 7")
3. "7/4 (Shoreline)" b/w "Stars and Spit" & "Death Cock" (2006, CDS)
4. "Fire Eye'd Boy" b/w "Canada vs. America (Exhaust Pipe Remix)" (2006, 7")

• Kevin Drew
• Brendan Canning
• Andrew Whiteman
• Charles Spearin
• John Crossingham
• Evan Cranley
• Justin Peroff
• James Shaw
• Feist
• Emily Haines
• Jessica Moss
• Ohad Benchetrit
• Martin Davis Kinack
• Torquil Campbell
• Jo-ann Goldsmith
• David Newfeld
• Julie Penner
• Jason Tait
• K-os
• Murray Lightburn
• Noah Mintz
• Louise Upperton

The instrumental introduction to "7/4 (Shoreline)" is used as the theme music for CBC Radio One's Mainstreet programme broadcast on CBHA in Halifax, Nova Scotia.