“We were all still intertwined in everyday life,” Drew says. Most of the band’s core members had remained close throughout the hiatus years, hanging out and even gathering for occasional hometown shows.
We were unsure if we really needed to come back.” It fell to bassist Brendan Canning, who had founded the band with him back in 1999, to make the case for a reunion: “Brendan didn’t feel the story was over.” “It wasn’t something that I particularly wanted,” Drew says. He admits that he had to be talked into making Hug of Thunder, which ended a seven-year dry spell between Broken Social Scene albums. Then you ask, ‘Hey, do you mind if we stay over a little longer? We’ll contribute to the fridge and do the dishes, but we wanna be here.'” “When you come back, it’s great, they welcome you. “We are a middle-aged indie-rock band who have decided to come back,” says Drew, 42.
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The product of a burst of creativity that followed 2017’s excellent Hug of Thunder, both EPs are full of emotional crescendos and soothing washes of melody that remind you to be grateful that Broken Social Scene are once again a going concern. 2, the pair of EPs that Broken Social Scene released this year. (“Nothing says ‘What the hell happened to me?’ than a Chardonnay at lunch,” he jokes in a text before we meet.) He’s excited to talk about Let’s Try the After Vol. A stubborn sense of optimism has carried them through two decades of band drama, and it also helps explain why they were at South By Southwest, a music festival better known for introducing young hopefuls than welcoming graying veterans of the road.Ī few days after SXSW, Drew is at a bistro in Manhattan, enjoying a small glass of Chardonnay and an avocado toast. Their best songs feel like they’re about to whirl out of control before they resolve into unforgettable anthems the musicians themselves have fallen apart and come back together too many times to count. It’s an apt phrase for Broken Social Scene, whose greatest gift is finding meaning in the midst of chaos. “It was a clusterfuck, and it was an absolute joy.” “We didn’t have our gear for the first few shows,” says Kevin Drew, the 17-member band’s de facto frontman. Earlier this spring, the ragtag group of Canadian indie-rock lifers and unapologetic idealists known as Broken Social Scene made their way from Toronto to Austin, Texas, to perform eight shows in less than one week.
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