This is one of my personal favourite songs of all time.Īnthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl. Feist proceeded to cover the song on a B-side collection released shortly after. One of their signature songs, this features Kevin Drew on vocals at his very best. Though a diverse collection of sounds, the record maintains the intimacy and ambience achieved so well by its predecessor. This album is much more of an indie rock record, featuring more prominent vocals and guitar. The band expanded significantly in size and in sound, bringing in members such as Stars’ Amy Milan and Torquil Campbell (Evan Cranley of Stars was already a member), Metric’s Emily Haines, and several others. This is the album that, I believe, deserved a spot on the essentials list. This was Broken Social Scene’s breakout album, and the one many consider to be their best. Purely instrumental (like most of the album). Mumbling vocals by both Kevin Drew and Leslie Feist can be faintly heard. On this track you can hear Kevin Drew’s intimate whisper-like vocals over an ambient instrumental. Besides core members including Drew and Canning, another noteworthy contributor to this record is Leslie Feist. I find it creates a very intimate and nostalgic atmosphere. It is essentially an ambient post-rock album, and this influence persists through much of their later work as well and is even more prevalent in the works of some band members’ other projects. This album, which is almost entirely instrumental, is often overlooked or forgotten since it was released before their breakout, You Forgot It In People. Four full-length albums were released under the “Broken Social Scene” name. The collective was centered in Toronto and was essentially the brainchild of original core members Kevin Drew and Brandon Canning. With a fluid band structure consisting of many contributors drifting between various musical projects, Broken Social Scene escapes definition and “contains” almost 20 members at times. This graphic might help keep things straight. Each of these bands/musical projects creates unique music somewhere in the realm of indie rock, and shares core members with Broken Social Scene as a whole. So in honour of Canada Day (which was actually ten days ago… it took me a while to write this), I decided to give you guys a bit of an intro to Canada’s incredible indie supergroup, or, as they would rather be called, “musical collective.” This post will give an overview to BSS, itself, followed by another post featuring brief introductions to Kevin Drew (solo), Feist (solo), Brendan Canning (solo), KC Accidental, Stars, Metric, Do Make Say Think, and Apostle of Hustle. I couldn’t help but notice that the essentials list was clearly lacking in Broken Social Scene and friends.
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