The concept of Broken Social Scene remains fluid, but the music is something that’s always been built to last. Performances now run the risk of a child storming the stage and refusing to leave until her parents acknowledge her. It’s the first time where you can see pictures of the group and realize that they are no longer a collective of young people. “People thought it was not going to work out from an ego perspective,” Drew recently told Pitchfork, “but the reason it has comes down to the relationships.”Īnd another milestone reached by the band: the release of their fifth full-length album and first in seven years, Hug of Thunder. There are 17 members now - not all of them active and touring - and when they are not involved in the BSS process, each has their own distinct musical endeavors that they pursue. But by 1999, BSS was on its way to being a literal project before it coalesced into a figurative concept. Some of them met in school, others on tours. Some of its members have even eclipsed the group’s own popularity (Feist, Metric) while others make up the bones of a very particular moment in the aughts of indie history where sights were set above the Canadian border and projects like Do Say Make Think, Stars and Apostle of Hustle all were treated with a particular reverence.Īs Metric’s Emily Haines told the New York Times in 2006, Broken Social Scene is “somewhere between a tribe and a cult”. “Let’s hear it for friendship,” Broken Social Scene bandleader Kevin Drew requested during a recent performance in Los Angeles, surrounded by a dozen of his buds who have turned a loosely formed artistic collective into an enduring indie rock supergroup.
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