![]() This duo recorded and released the band’s ambient debut album Feel Good Lost, in 2001, with contributions from Ohad Benchetrit (also known as Years), Evan Cranley, Leslie Feist, Justin Peroff, Bill Priddle, and Charles Spearin. The band’s core members were Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. "We just entered someone's magical little kingdom for a spell," Canning says.Broken Social Scene is an indie rock group formed in 1999 in Toronto, Canada. ![]() He was very subtle in how he worked, but he put in a lot of time and a lot of passion into it. But he puts a lot of attention into detail, and he left a lot of the vibe up to the band. We called his studio 'Buttons and Buttons and Buttons and Knobs' there was just so much gear and craziness going on in there. He just takes his time, and he has unbelievable gear in his studio. "He very much studied everybody for the first little while that we were down there to see who was bringing what to the table. " did bring a fresh sound to us, because he's very meticulous in how he records," Drew says. More importantly, because the band recorded a majority of the album at McEntire's Soma studios in Chicago, Drew and Canning both say McEntire's influence and recording approach can be heard all over Forgiveness Rock Record. That said, they still ended up having about 31 musicians involved, including appearances from Leslie Feist, Emily Haines, Amy Millan, The Sea and Cake's Sam Prekop and more. So it just really made us put a concentrated effort into relying on the six of us." "We just knew we had to continue on without relying on a lot of those people anymore. "It just became apparent that Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff, Sam Goldberg, Brendan and myself were becoming this tight-knit band, and we toured all over the world in 2008, and it just came together," Drew adds. This was really the six-piece that wrote the map that would become this album." "With the other records, you had different lineups writing different songs. "In the past, we've had sort of a fluctuating lineup," Canning says. ![]() So it just seemed like the right notion to go with."Ĭanning and Drew say when they approached writing the songs for Forgiveness Rock Record, they were interested in focusing on a smaller, more stable unit, one they'd been touring with since 2008. All those things over the last 10 years have happened to us. "It just seemed like the reason we were all back together was because we're all a family," Drew says, "and in families you've got to forgive and forget, and you have highs and lows. Drew says the name grew to encompass the general feeling the band was experiencing after reuniting. And when vocals belt out the chorus, you get the big collective sound of Broken Social Scene.Ĭanning and Drew recently spoke with Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about their leaner lineup, McEntire's impact on the album and how they came up with its title. It's an exuberant collection of songs with electronic ambiance, powerful drum beats, punked-out fuzz bass, soaring lead guitars, raucous horn sections and even a little flute. The album features a tighter-knit core of musicians focused around its co-founders, Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, and it was recorded in Chicago with producer and multi-instrumentalist John McEntire, best known for his work with Tortoise and The Sea and Cake. ![]() And, while it's since scaled down, you wouldn't notice it given the energy level of Broken Social Scene's new album, Forgiveness Rock Record. A few years back, it wasn't unusual to see as many as 15 players on stage at one of their concerts, and the group's constantly fluctuating lineup has featured the likes of Feist and members of both Metric and Stars. In that time, its members have gone from ambitious upstarts to influential veterans of the Toronto music scene. The Canadian rock collective Broken Social Scene has been around for a decade now. Broken Social Scene has released its first album since 2005, Forgiveness Rock Record. ![]()
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