But they also bring their distinct personalities to bear in the group: Drew the mercurial, heart-on-sleeve frontman who rallies the troops Canning the sardonic veteran who keeps his cool and steers the ship Spearin the calm, positive spirit whose studio serves as an incubator for BSS’ musical ideas.Įven a simple question about what ultimately brought the band back together results in a comedy of errors. The three, who’ve known and played music with each other for the past two decades, are like brothers, exchanging playful jabs and finishing each others’ sentences. And the mission wasn’t finished.”Ĭanning’s sitting with Drew and fellow early member Charles Spearin at the Rivoli, a mainstay Toronto bar, to discuss the new record. “With Broken Social Scene, you’re on a mission. “I don’t think anyone in the group believed we finished what we started out to do,” explains bassist Brendan Canning, who founded the band back in 1999 with singer-guitarist Kevin Drew. Many fans figured the band’s hiatus, announced in 2011, would be permanent.īut in recent years, the group-which can include up to 20 members onstage-began to reunite for the occasional live show, and are back with the just-released Hug of Thunder, a characteristically epic new album that pairs the band’s fist-pumping, all-hands-in-the-air energy with pointed but hopeful lyrics befitting our current times. In the seven years since their last record, lots has happened for the band that helped usher in a wave of smart but accessible indie rock in the early aughts: kids were born, parents passed away, members’ bands and solo projects-including Feist, Metric, and Stars-enjoyed their own successes. What do you do when the world’s crumbling all around you? If you’re Toronto indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene, you call your friends and do what you do best: make some joyful noise together.
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