My heart, I was like, ‘I have no idea where this fuckin’ thing is anymore.’ So I thought that’s the way to go.” “ Charlie Spearin was like, ‘Please keep it car.’ But at the time I knew where my car was - it was downstairs in my garage. The original title, he claims, was “Can’t Find My Car,” referencing the 2000 film Dude, Where’s My Car? “It was ‘Car’ right up until the last minute,” Drew says. 2 is “Can’t Find My Heart,” a surging rock anthem that is classic BSS. The highlight of Let’s Try the After Vol. Even if you’re not in the room, or you didn’t participate on it, you’re part of it.” But that’s the great thing about Social Scene. “There’s a lot of people not there - Amy’s not there, Feist’s not there, Emily’s not there. “I don’t need to make Hug of Thunder again,” Drew says.
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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.įor the EPs, it felt less urgent to get everyone on board. 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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