![]() ![]() “We’ve never really had choruses before, so it was a challenge for us,” he says. With tracks like “Chase Scene” and “Forced to Love” bursting with memorable hooks, “Forgiveness” is the first Broken Social Scene album that Drew says was written for the people at the band’s shows. Under the guidance of new producer John McEntire, who plays in post-rock groups Tortoise and the Sea & Cake, the band worked with nearly 20 guest contributors including Feist, Jason Collett, Sebastian Grainger and Pavement’s Scott Kannberg. “With all the touring and solo material, it also helped to leave people with a thirst for new music.” EMBRACING THE AUDIENCEĭrew, Canning, Goldberg, drummer Justin Peroff, guitarist Charles Spearin, singer/guitarist Andrew Whiteman and new singer Lisa Lobsinger recorded “Forgiveness” during sessions in Chicago and Toronto beginning last May. “The solo record was therapeutic for (Drew), and when it came to the tour, it didn’t make sense to put a whole new band together,” band manager/Arts & Crafts president Jeffrey Remedios says. With the addition of guitarist Sam Goldberg, the band rounded into a core six-piece lineup and regained its composure. Drew decided to bring Broken Social Scene along for a tour in support of his album in 2008. ,” under the “Broken Social Scene Presents” tag line in 2007, and singer/bassist Brendan Canning issued a solo album the following year. ![]() “When you have a big group of people, it’s hard to find a ground to stand on.”ĭrew released an intimate solo debut, “Spirit If. The band remained active after the release, embarking on a lengthy tour and composing the score to 2006 film “Half Nelson.” But Drew says there were some “slightly turbulent times” trying to manage the band’s many members and dozen-plus regular collaborators, who include Leslie Feist and members of Canadian bands Metric, Stars and Do Make Say Think. Broken Social Scene - whose gritty art-rock dazzled the indie scene with 2002 sophomore disc “You Forgot It in People” - hasn’t issued any new material since its self-titled third album in October 2005. ![]() The difference between “Forgiveness” and the other releases is how long it took to come together. “I feel like it’s a great time for the return of a lot of bands.” “Me and (Hold Steady frontman) Craig Finn wanted to start a campaign for kids to skip school on the day our records come out,” Drew says. No one could be happier about the indie stars aligning than Kevin Drew, singer/guitarist of Toronto collective Broken Social Scene, whose fourth album, “Forgiveness Rock Record,” will be released May 4 in the United States. Covering many bases, Broken Social Scene at times reached the heady rush and kinetic exuberance of Montreal’s Arcade Fire and at times seemed like an unlikely cross between Sonic Youth (minus the cold intellectualism) and the Polyphonic Spree (minus the robes and choir).NEW YORK (Billboard) - With new albums by the Hold Steady, the National, LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses scheduled to hit stores within a three-week span, the beginning of May has become blockbuster month for indie rock releases. The tour’s cast of 16 musicians is drawn from several bands, with the principal members of “post-rock” instrumental group Do Make Say Think and eclectic singer-songwriter Leslie Feist among them. In a fertile wave of Canadian acts that are not so much bands as communities, Broken Social Scene on Monday (the first of two nights at the Fonda) showed itself to be perhaps the most communal. But then he’d been sincere throughout the show as he sang of love and passion - not as concepts but as elements essential to the very existence of life - while his compatriots crafted exhilarating sounds that were no less than musical renderings of those states of being. “What will you do if I run off and take a quick smoke?” Broken Social Scene leader Kevin Drew asked the Henry Fonda Music Box Theatre audience before leaving for a pre-encore break on Monday. ![]()
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