The song was also included on the soundtrack to Edgar Wright’s awesome film Scott Pilgrim vs. It’s a hodge-podge setup, but it works for them – and without Broken Social Scene, bands like Arcade Fire and The Polyphonic Spree, with their sprawling line-ups and weird, experimental sounds, wouldn’t have had a precedent set for them to achieve mainstream success.Īnd then there’s the music itself – grand in its scope, textured and intricate but accessible, with lyrics that are at times abstract, and at other times cuttingly relatable.Īnyone with even a passing interest in indie rock in the mid-2000s will remember the iconic refrain from “Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl”: Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me. “But you can’t break something that’s already broken… The only way you could destroy it would be to actually fix it.” In the band’s bio, This Book is Broken, Emily describes them as “permanently broken” – in a good way. “Every interview I’ve ever fucking done has asked, ‘Is Broken Social Scene breaking up?’” she says. They dispel traditional notions of what a band should be, living up to their name. With members coming and going over the years, and their own side projects on the go at all times, Broken Social Scene is like a summer camp for cool indie rockers to get together, make some sweet tunes, and feed off each other’s energy. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Broken Social Scene were a crucial part of making the Canadian music scene – especially in Toronto – what it is now.īroken Social Scene is a community – with a whopping 15 members today, and up to 18 in the past, there’s no other word to describe it. The collective has been a revolving door of top-notch musos since it started, and over the last two decades has counted the likes of Feist, Stars’ Amy Millan and Metric’s Emily Haines among its members. Pretty good bit of trivia, right? But also, considering the nature of Broken Social Scene’s members, maybe it’s not surprising. We were pretty darn chuffed to have a deep and meaningful chinwag with Broken Social Scene’s sort-of frontman, Kevin Drew, for issue 79 of frankie – so chuffed that we decided to take a proper wander down musical memory lane, and remember how the Canadian collective came to be (and remained) so frigging awesome.ĭid you know that one of the founding members of Broken Social Scene was also in Len, the band behind the ’90s one-hit wonder “Steal My Sunshine”? It’s true – Brendan Canning played alongside Marc and Sharon Constanzo before he teamed up with Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin, who’d been playing together as KC Accidental, to form one of Canada’s most prolific indie rock bands in 1999.
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