It’s often helpful to compare similarly styled bands in order for the reader of a review or opinion piece to understand the genre, type, or style of music the writer is talking about. Allow me to describe Owl City’s album Ocean Eyes in three words.
It’s freaking terrible.
Now, I’m going to elaborate on this because my beloved Editor-in-Chief will not allow me to post a 33 word review due to the fact that it lacks objectivity.
This album is twelve tracks of complete garbage. I honestly have heard very few albums that are this terrible start to finish. It’s pandering, redundant, boring, (negative adjective), (negative adjective), (negative adjective). Continue reading
Broken Social Scene are at their very core the soul of independent music. They are a revolving door collection of independent musicians who come together to create some masterfully epic music. There is a certain heart to the band, a life-beating entity within it that is always present to make it alive. It is that life-beating entity that allows for Broken Social Scene to be successful, because it allows them to be diverse while keeping the direction of the band on course. No, this isn’t an ordinary band by an means. This is a progressive, independent, ever-changing ensemble.
