![]() It was a “Five Star” album in the sense that all of the songs were good and listenable, but I did not find it moving in any way, with nothing classic or transcendant. I sort of saw the album as a culmination of many styles, each song being lesser representations of those styles, as if many of the genres in my music collection had been compacted into one album and turned into something simpler and less moving. It was all very good (though some of the songs, like “Cause=Time,” sometimes had a tendency to annoy me), but nothing really mind-blowing. Sure, there was the great rocking near-instrumental “KC Accidental,” with its high-speed drumming and blasts of guitar, and there was “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year Old Girl,” the absolutely charming and pretty highlight of the album, with Emily Haines singing in ultra-filtered vocals alongside banjos and strings. Not only that, but it didn’t really seem all that special to me. So you would imagine I was kind of disappointed when it didn’t. Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band, I was expecting something that would change my life. Critics from all over were giving it their highest ratings, perfect scores for an apparently “perfect album.” Along with this, and the band sharing members with rock instrumental masters Do Make Say Think and the apocalyptic chamber music band The Silver Mt. ![]() ![]() But when it did get recognition, man did it get it. Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot It in People was an album that came out last year but did not gain much recognition, due to distribution problems and an apparent lack of publicity. ![]()
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