Its a bit of a spectacle with this whole ‘Broken Social Scene presenting’ platform.  How am I supposed to objectively listen to an album when it says right in the title that it is backed by one of the most acclaimed of super groups and collectives of the present.  Its like a proclamation to all would-be listeners: “this is going to be good, trust us.”  And after giving Brendan Canning’s Something For All Of Us… a few listens through, it really is good.  Trust us.

Its hard to know who is put on display though.  Its partly obvious that Brendan Canning is under the spotlight, but on a stage and theater run by Broken Social Scene, in a city populated with BSS soldiers and civilians, and with a backing band made up of a lot of your friends from BSS.  Its like BSS has gone corporate and has created this reciprocal solution of success for the members of the band collectively as well as individually.  I don’t have a problem with this semi-sponsorship/name dropping approach to getting new music out to the right customer.  I guess its just nice to find new music from people you can trust.

[mp3] Brendan Canning - Hit The Wall