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About BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
Amazon.com Bands that draw musicians from other well-known acts are called "supergroups." Broken Social Scene is a supercollective. Ranging from five to 17 members, the Toronto-based outfit includes musicians from Stars, Metric, and many other bands, as well as the up-and-coming Leslie Feist. Frontmen Kevin Drew (formerly of Do Make Say Think) and Brendan Canning (By Divine Right, Len) founded BSS in 1999 and their mission has stayed constant: take a deep love of indie rock and expand on that by making experimental mini-symphonies. Their latest work is not so much a series of songs as it is a musical mood. The infectious cacophony comes through immediately, opening with a rapidly-expanding collection of xylophones and trombones that create Burt Bacharach-style instrumental jaunts, while Kevin Drew's vocals whisper through the melodic mayhem. Notable tracks--from the rhythmic "Fire Eye'd Boy," to the gorgeously floaty "Major Label Debut," to "Ibi Dreams of Pavement" (featuring rapper K-Os)--have two elements in common: all feature expansive melodies and all have vocals consciously (sometimes annoyingly) buried quite low in the mix. However, the CD's highlight (and disc-closer), "It's All Gonna Break," holds the key to BSS's beauty; it's simultaneously far-reaching and uplifting, a near-perfect 10 minutes of music. This limited edition version of the release also contains a seven-song EP filled with some dropped tracks and an alternative version of "Major Label Debut". --Denise Sheppard Product Description Recorded over the last two years with YFIIP producer Dave Newfeld, Windsurfing Nation encompasses everything you've hoped for, the Broken Social Scene you love but with a maturity and brilliance that showcases their growth from the innocence heard on YFIIP. It's all there... The anthemic pop-rock ensembles, layers of shimmering sound and texture, arm-raising horn sections, and even beloved quiet moments to catch your breath. Arts & Crafts. 2005. About the Artist Broken Social Scene began in 1999, born of a theme that has become the stalwart of the band's existence - friendship in tough times. Kevin Drew was a talented, but essentially unknown musician who specialized in lovely bedroom instrumentals. Brendan Canning was a vet of several Toronto almost-made-its, including hHead, Len, Spookey Ruben and By Divine Right. Cocooned in a Toronto basement in the winter of 1999-2000, Drew and Canning worked on their elegant debut, Feel Good Lost. Though mostly instrumental and somnambulant, this recording was the template for the band's growth - Drew's restless creativity was tempered and focused by Canning's gracious experience. Around this yin-yang orbited numerous talents such as Leslie Feist, drummer Justin Peroff, Stars' Evan Cranley, and Do Make Say Think members Charles Spearin and Justin Small. A live band began to grow and Drew and Canning's partnership expanded to a group of cagey vets (Andrew Whiteman, Bill Priddle) and wide-eyed "kids" (Peroff, John Crossingham, Metric's James Shaw and Emily Haines). For a year, Broken Social Scene was comprised of whoever showed up, playing whatever was written the day before. In 2002, after months of recording, re-recording and countless mixes, Broken Social Scene released You Forgot It In People to great critical acclaim. The album went on to sell over 250,000 copies worldwide and win a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year. The band spent the next two and a half years on the road, touring the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. In 2004, Broken Social Scene released Bee Hives, a collection of outtakes from the fruitful You Forgot It In People sessions, which included the haunting version of "Lover's Spit" sung by Feist. 2005's Broken Social Scene was a fitting title for the band's third record - an apt aural representation of the band's friendship. The album is messy, overrun, irregular but spirited, passionate, honest and hopeful. It landed this indie band from Toronto on TV scre
