![]() There's endless jamming and background noise, nonstop guitar noodling, and only the occasional hook. There's no discernible lead singer, as various members take turns on the mic, making it hard to for listeners to form a connection with anyone. It's all over the map stylistically, jumping between ambient drone ("Capture the Flag"), jam rock ("KC Accidental"), light bossa nova ("Looks Just Like The Sun"), piano crooning ("Lover's Spit"), and straight up pop ("Almost Crimes"). ![]() This is what happens with BSS: it's hard to explain why they stand out, but they just do.īy most standards, You Forgot It In People shouldn't work. This one stood out, and earned a 9.2/10, though the reviewer couldn't quite explain why. The album got reviewed on Pitchfork when one of their writers made a new year's resolution to listen back over every CD sent to the office in 2002. While BSS drew members from some of Toronto's best indie bands, like By Divine Right, Stars, and Do Make Say Think, it took a while for You Forgot It In People to break beyond their home city. ![]() There was something fresh about the whole thing, like you were experiencing songs right as they were written, with no filter between you and the band's wild ideas. Songs like "Almost Crimes" and "Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl" got into your head, despite all their bizarre noises and weird turns. They had layer upon layer of guitars, synths, horns, and vocals, and avoided traditional song structures, but somehow it was all undeniably catchy. They were sort of post rock, sort of jazz, sort of pop, but really not any of those things at all. ![]() But one listen to their breakthrough album, You Forgot It In People, made it clear that BSS were unlike anything else out there. ![]()
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