5/17/2023 0 Comments Music broken social sceneAnd then when everybody got back together, we wanted to be together again. Everybody needed to go their own direction, make a decision, and have their own time. JOHN NORRIS: So, in say, 2006, it was it anybody’s guess whether there would be another Broken Social Scene album?ĬHARLES SPEARIN: Yeah, I think we were fed up with the process at that time. As for those other gals–Emily Haines, Amy Millan, and Leslie Feist–they turn in guest spots too, aptly enough on “Sentimental X’s.” When the band came through New York last week, I sat down with two of the men who have helped steady the good ship BSS for a decade (even when she was taking on water!), Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin of Broken Social Scene. In “Forced To Love” and “Art House Director,” there’s some of the hookiest pop radio-friendly fare BSS have ever mustered, there’s a driving, immediate instrumental, “Meet Me in the Basement,” and the delicate, danceable “All In All,” which gives Lisa Lobsinger at last a song to call her own. Recorded in Chicago and Toronto throughout much of 2009, Forgiveness Rock Record is absolutely epic, a 14-track odyssey that careens from fuzzy and frantic (“Chase Scene”), to bouncy and politically pointed (“Texico Bitches”) to swelling and dramatic (opener “World Sick”). After aligning with a fresh set of ears, producer John McEntire (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake), a new full-length was finally in sight. That is, until 2008, a year in which new members signed on, and a rejuvenated BSS developed and spent months on the road. By mid-decade another Broken Social Scene album seemed an uncertain prospect. Different members played and sang on different tracks, and the live lineup changed from one show to the next, depending on members’ availability.īSS had become a victim of its own success, as what were once side projects–Metric, Stars, Apostle of Hustle, Jason Collett, Do Make Say Think and 2007 It Girl Feist–took off on their own, in some cases supplanting the mother ship in terms of pop attention. That self-titled release received no shortage of critical love and even commercial traction, but it revealed an increasingly scattered Scene. It was also the last time we had an album from the sprawling Toronto collective Broken Social Scene. Consider 2005, a simpler time: Barack Obama was a freshman US senator, twitter was a sound a bird made, and the names “Lady Gaga” and “Vampire Weekend” were privy only to a select few. Five years may not mean much to glaciers and sequoias, but in music, pop culture and politics, it’s huge.
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