You know when you’re discussing this muscle memory and looking back, I think about the album and how you were in your early twenties, but some of the songs were real teenage anthems–obviously “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” but also “Late Nineties Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries”–capture this cusp of adulthood.
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We’re not on TikTok, but we know how to play these tunes.” It’s just us going out and saying, “Hey, thank you so much. So, I feel like we’re on this memory muscle tour. If you’ve got other shit to do, go do it. If you want to come on stage and join us, you can come and honor it. That’s something that I stand by with this band. We’re on this tour but we’re not chasing our career we’re honoring our career. Try to move forward.” But what really dawned on me when we played these Massey Hall shows in Toronto, is trying to figure out how to continue moving forward while also looking back. We were sort of green to a certain extent, and it was initially based on friendships, even though we all came from different musical backgrounds.Įverybody tells those over 40, “Don’t look back. He was just doing a whole different style of production than what we were used to. And when we hooked up with David Newfield, he was in another plane. When we were in the studio, we were so happy to be together just making cool music for our friends. When you started this project, did you have any sense of who Broken Social Scene would become or the sort of legacy that you guys would have across a whole generation of musicians?Īs Charles in our band put it recently, “we were just trying to impress ourselves.” We were trying to make a record that we would love. I think back to when Broken Social Scene first came out, and it was this moment in time of these expansive Canadian super groups, such as the New Pornographers, too. Somehow the title “ You Forgot It In People” seems more relevant now than it did 20 years ago. It’s just honoring music that we’ve made and we’re not thinking about it too much. With the tour, we’re just bringing the songs with us, taking them to the people and it’s been nothing but a love fest so far. We knew when it was coming and before COVID we were making plans. And honestly, we already knew that we were going to honor this album after 20 years. Kevin Drew: Well, we’re all doing our own things. Members come and go–sometimes as few as six or as many as 19 members have appeared together onstage and on albums–and the related side and solo projects include (but are not limited to) Feist, Metric and Stars.ĭistrict Fray spoke with Kevin Drew, guitarist, singer, and founding member of Broken Social Scene, from his hotel room in Omaha, Nebraska.ĭistrict Fray: Happy 20th anniversary on “You Forgot It In People!” Why get the band back together at this time, especially considering the diversity and successes of the different post-Broken Social Scene endeavors and projects? You just have to hear it for yourself.”) Next week is your chance.īroken Social Scene has always been less a band and more of a Canadian rhizomatic organization, a complex interlocking web of musicians and artists whose creations have influenced and inspired the last twenty years of modern rock music. ( The Pitchfork review at the time gave the album a 9.2/10 and declared “I wish I could convey how they’ve made just exactly the kind of pop record that stands the test of time…. at The Lincoln Theatre on October 13 and 9:30 Club (sold out) on October 14 for the 20th anniversary of their second album “You Forgot It In People.” The early aughts classic earned the 2003 Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award and was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year. The band has been known for containing a constantly rotating number of famous members, and many of them were featured on their last LP, including Feist and Metric’s Emily Haines and James Shaw.Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene will spend two nights in D.C. It followed up their 2010 release Forgiveness Rock Record.
Hug of Thunder, BSS’ fifth album, was released last July.
“‘Old Dead Young’ is our fist pump towards the constant struggle of getting it right and we want to spread that to as many people, as far and wide as possible.” “All things come to an end and this tour has been a wonderful experience for all of us, returning to what we know best,” the band said in a statement. They released the explosive track to mark the end of their tour. It was also previously available exclusively on the vinyl version of the album. “Old Dead Young” was written during the sessions for Hug of Thunder and features guest vocals from Feist.
After wrapping their expansive touring in support of Hug of Thunder, Broken Social Scene is back with the new single “Old Dead Young.” Hug of Thunder was the veteran indie rock outfit’s first album in seven years.
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