And with follow-up releases like the blissfully chaotic Broken Social Scene (2005), the rapturous Forgiveness Rock Record (2010), and the intricate, insidiously melodic Hug of Thunder (2017), Broken Social Scene have amassed a thrillingly amorphous, unpredictable body of work. Where the band’s 2001 debut album, Feel Good Lost, presented BSS as an anonymous ambient project that reflected its humble, homespun origins, their electrifying live performances from that era rallied an extended family of performers with roots in post-rock (Justin Peroff, Do Make Say Think’s Charles Spearin), Latin jazz (Andrew Whiteman), art-folk (Feist), synth-pop (Amy Millan and Evan Cranley, also of Stars), dance-punk (Metric’s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw), and country rock (Jason Collett).īut by pursuing improvisational freedom over commercial considerations, Broken Social Scene set a new gold standard for indie rock in the 21st century with 2002’s You Forgot It In People, an album that pushed the genre far beyond its noisy ’90s slacker roots toward a more sonically expansive, emotionally expressive vision. Once a two-person basement recording project, Broken Social Scene came to life onstage as a shadowy improvisational entity with a revolving-door roster, each concert a wholly unique experience dependent on the room, the weather, what they ate for dinner that night, and who was dropping in to play. Is it a collective? Certainly, it can seem that way when you see some 15 people crowding the stage, but BSS aren’t so much a united front as a perpetually mutating aggregate of competing creative energies. Is it a cult? Nah-some of them have the beards, but they could never agree on the right robes. Bands tend to have defined memberships and aesthetics and goals Broken Social Scene have never been bothered with such limitations. It’s hard to know what to make of an ongoing experiment like Broken Social Scene. Quite the opposite: Since debuting in 2001, Broken Social Scene have personified the unyielding, incomparable power of IRL human connection. But this social network didn’t require you to stay glued to your smartphone to take part in it. And yes, occasionally, it became a forum for arguments and oversharing. It became a place where they could live out their best lives or fret about the fragile state of the world. Like other such networks you’re familiar with, it quickly expanded to include friends, and friends of friends. 11: Portland, Ore.At the dawn of the 21st-century, just as the internet began infecting every aspect of our daily lives, Toronto musicians Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning began building a social network of their own. 20: Ottawa, Ontario (Capitol Music Theatre) Here are Broken Social Scene’s tour dates: “It’s not going to be as great of a deconstruction process. “We are not going to over-think it too much,” group member Brendan Canning recently told about the work-in-progress.
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The artist can be heard vocalizing on the new Broken Social Scene album track “7/4 (Shoreline),” which was recently made available for free download via Arts & Craft’s Gallery AC download site.Īs previously reported, the band is already working on the follow-up to “Broken Social Scene,” which will be released Oct. 18 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.īSS contributor Leslie Feist will open most shows, performing material from her recent Cherry Tree album “Let It Die” (on which she was billed simply as Feist). 19 in Kingston, Ont., and are on tap through Nov. Although Broken Social Scene was mulling the bare minimum of fall touring in support of its upcoming self-titled Arts & Crafts album, the Canadian collective has opted to hit the road after all.
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