I remember when U2's single came out, I thought, 'All right, what's it gonna be? What's the man gonna sing about?' And Bono's opening line was like, 'I don't wanna talk about politics, I just wanna rock!' And I thought, "Uh oh - we're in trouble".īroken Social Scene's fourth album is due 4 May. But on May 4, they'll finally release the follow-up to. "We had lots of conversations about how we could sing about our views and opinions without trying to make a poor man's REM song. That's a long time, and that's how long we've been waiting for a new Broken Social Scene album. "This is a crazy state of limbo right now and we tried to embrace it and bring those subjects up here and there," Drew said. But in the Obama age, the "state of the planet" became a harder thing to "personalise". Though the band doesnt have any new material to play, they do have the recently released collection of odds and sods entitled Old Dead Young, which brings. "We've always been a band that sings about exactly what's inside of us and exactly what's happening outside as well," Drew said. Working in Toronto and Chicago, the group pared 42 songs into the one album. So we were quite scared to take a lot of it on ourselves." Whereas Newfeld digs into songs hungrily, with both hands, "Johnny is very, very different," Drew said. "He was very involved – I mean, he used to come on the talkback and suggest lyric changes. " didn't know how we were going to do this record without Newfeld because he played such a massive, massive role in all our success," Kevin Drew told Pitchfork this week. Both their 2002 breakout, You Forgot It in People, and 2006's self-titled album were produced by Dave Newfeld – credited as a major architect of the albums' sound. This article originally appeared in the July 22 issue of Billboard.McEntire's role marks a major change for the band. “It still sounds like Broken Social Scene,” he says, “but a new version - nothing but fresh potential.” “There was an endless dialogue about the arrangement,” says the 47-year-old, “but once our producer, Joe Chiccarelli, encouraged me to try a reggae feel on the bass, the song turned around.” The result: a pileup of guitars, horns, piano, beats, a flute line and pop vocals that coalesces beautifully. “The drama remains contained in the songs.”īand co-founder Canning, who scored Paul Schrader’s 2013 erotic thriller The Canyons during the hiatus, points to the creation of the sprawling track “Stay Happy” as emblematic of the new album’s adventurousness. “Friction has been ironed out with time and age,” she says. I’m sure I didn’t go up uninvited, but it’s fairly informal.” For Hug of Thunder, Engle was asked to participate in the writing process, and has grown to understand the connections - and minor tensions - within the group. She joined Broken Social Scene’s 2010 tour to spend time with Whiteman, and says, “I’d hop for a song or two. The group’s newest addition is vocalist Engle, who also performs with her husband, BSS guitarist Andrew Whiteman, as the rock duo AroarA. “Some magical complementary tones emerge when we unify. “I love singing with other women,” she says, nodding to mainstays like Feist and Millan. As the singer of a quartet with three male members, Haines also appreciates the sisterhood within BSS. “It feels like we’ve come back to You Forgot It in People,” she asserts. The 43-year-old singer, who has released six studio albums as the leader of synth-rock group Metric, says that the mood within the current iteration of Broken Social Scene reminds her of the troupe’s early days. “I knew this was something that was going to get me to a better place, because I was going to be around people I love, doing something I love and, eventually, in front of people that I love - the audience.” “It wasn’t the greatest time when this thing needed to re-form, but it needed to re-form,” says Drew, who has released two solo LPs and co-produced The Tragically Hip’s 2016 album, Man Machine Poem. The de facto leader of Broken Social Scene, Drew says he was cautious about getting back in the studio with the collective while coping with anxiety issues. Broken Social Scene photographed June 24 at Arroyo Seco in Pasadena.
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