#BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE TWITTER PLUS#

It’s hard to think of a record that meant more to me as a young adult than this one did. That said: Writing a 20-year anniversary essay around this particular album is a gut punch. The passage of time is inevitable, and it’s always been a pet peeve of mine when people boo-hoo about how their best years are behind them, it’s been X amount of years since college ended, no good music exists anymore, blah blah - you get it. Usually when landmark records turn A Certain Age, I try not to take it personally or begin digging my own grave. So many Canadian indie-rock figures were born out of the greater Broken Social Scene hive mind that the whole enterprise should be studied - or at least theme an episode of the podcast Sounds Like A Cult. Nowhere is this carousel of talent better exemplified than on the band’s astounding sophomore album, You Forgot It In People, which turns 20 this Saturday. (Fun fact: Canning was once a member of Len, of “ Steal My Sunshine” fame.)

Some of those early names included the Leslie Feist, Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell of Stars, Emily Haines and James Shaw from Metric, the trio of Charles Spearin, Julie Penner, and Ohad Benchetrit from Do Make Say Think, plus Apostle Of Hustle, KC Accidental, Jason Collett, and others that I’m no doubt leaving out. (No offense to the ska community.)īeginning in 1999 as a musical partnership between Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, Broken Social Scene would eventually see close to 30 members cycle through their ranks, with players rotating in and out depending on availability.

More than two decades after forming, Broken Social Scene have come to symbolize a maximalist musical time where indie-ensemble bands ruled - the more instruments, the better! Almost like a ’90s ska band, except no one was getting paid just to skank onstage. How do we do it within the isolation of self prescribe empty popularity? How does the ego revolt? How does the heart win? Can it? Maybe after we will find out.”Įarlier this year, Broken Social Scene released a Valentine’s Day single called “Boyfriends.” The band will tour North America this spring, with dates in Toronto, New York, Montreal, Los Angeles and Seattle, before heading to Europe for a summer run.Broken Social Scene have always been less a band than a collective - a onetime incubator of Canadian indie mega-stars that put Toronto on the map around the same time fellow supergroup the New Pornographers were doing the same thing for Vancouver, and Arcade Fire (*cringe emoji*) for Montreal.

Let’s just get to their after and start building again. Sickness, suicide, uprise, love, death, betrayal, hurt, joy, sex, communication, battles and divisions. Listen to our new tune 'Big Couches' now on Singles Club before it lands on 'Let's Try The After – Vol 2' on April 12th! /WNtFqdwmoYīroken Social Scene co-founded Kevin Drew said of the new music, “The theme is to continue. Both editions of Let’s Try The After will be packaged together as a combined release in honor of Record Store Day, which takes place April 13.

2, the second part of a pair, will be released April 12 via Arts & Crafts Records. “Big Couches” distorts the band’s signature indie sound with Auto-Tuned vocal effects, but stays in line with their usual propulsive beats, shimmering guitar riffs and surging choruses, all of which are presented in an experimental package. The new song was released as the 33rd installment of the Adult Swim Singles program ahead of the EP. The musicians previously released single “Can’t Find My Heart,” a swirling indie rock number, which will also appear on the upcoming EP. Broken Social Scene has released “Big Couches,” the second track off the band’s upcoming EP Let’s Try the After – Vol.

#BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE TWITTER PLUS#

Broken social scene twitter