![]() ![]() “You say to yourself sometimes, ‘This is such a goddamn hassle is it worth it?’ But yeah, of course it’s worth it. Water under the bridge now, says Canning, adding that no amount of drama justifies stifling the band’s potential, and the brouhaha added to the quality of sound. While not naming names, Drew confirmed shortly after Spirit If…‘s release that noses were consequently put out of joint, and radio silence between some band members existed for a time.įor his part, Brendan Canning released his solo effort, Something For All Of Us, under the “Broken Social Scene Presents” banner the next year, to less fanfare, though one might suspect that Canning’s title was intended as a barely veiled message to his longtime friend and bandmate. Stars like Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis and rocker Tom Cochrane lending a hand alongside BSS alums such as Leslie Feist, Metric’s Emily Haines, and album co-producers Charles Spearin and Ohad Benchetrit-all this for a solo effort-led to scornful media accusations that Drew was taking advantage of the good name and work of his fellow Scenesters for his own personal prestige and gain. Guitarist Andrew Whiteman coyly told the Toronto Sun that the quotation was meant to gain attention.Įvidently, another one among a number of reasons for the backstage tempest was the 2007 Kevin Drew solo project, Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew Spirit If…. During a taping of At The Concert Hall in Toronto (set to air August 3 on Bravo!), Drew was quoted as saying that Forgiveness Rock Record would be the last in the BSS canon, which Canning later denied. You might guess that a little bit of the gap could also be due to some in-house drama that fractured the collective for some time, though such dirty laundry isn’t something the Scenesters readily volunteer themselves: they tend to leave that to the media. Well actually, yeah, we’re getting old, but we’re working.” ![]() “We’re not sitting around and getting old. “Between the solo record that Kevin and I made, the Do Make Say Think records, you got 2006 to 2008 where we all toured extensively, a film project”-Bruce McDonald’s This Movie Is Broken, which was filmed during the garbage strike and premiered at SXSW in Texas-”and then taking a year to make this record, and there you go, you got five years,” says Canning. Why so long between albums? Five years passes quickly when you’re busy, says BSS co-founder and guitarist Brendan Canning. ![]() ![]() Next, they’re due to embark on a world tour and return to Toronto Island Park on June 19.) (As we mentioned in Weekend Planner, the gang was together again, at least in its latest incarnation, over the course of May 9 at Criminal Records, Rotate This!, Soundscapes, and Sonic Boom. While there are a lot of special guests, it’s our understanding that the core six-piece wrote all the songs on the album, ” more cohesive, melody-driven compositions than previous BSS output.” It’s out 5/4 via Arts & Crafts.Illustration by Roxanne Ignatius/Torontoist.Īfter five years of touring, solo work, side projects, frayed nerves, jilted hearts, and bruised egos, the players and personalities of Broken Social Scene, Toronto’s most notorious indie rock collective, have united for the much-anticipated Forgiveness Rock Record, their first since 2005’s self-titled effort. If that weren’t enough, the new album also includes contributions by John McEntire, The Sea and Cake’s Sam Prekop, Tortoise’s Doug McCombs, Pavement’s Spiral Stairs, Sebastian Grainger and Poi Dog Pondering’s Susan Bells. Ohad Benchetrit of Do Make Say Think and Years The new album features guest turns by Broken Social Scene alumni: I can put that regret more easily behind me now as I look forward to a May tour kick-off here in San Francisco at The Fillmore. My one concert regret of 2009 was missing Broken Social Scene at the Wanderlust Festival. ![]()
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