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Broken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. Accidental's Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, formerly of By Divine Right, bonded their friendship into a band. They spent the next few years honing an atmospheric rock sound in their native Toronto and the dynamic was great. The band is now an 11-piece collective.
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The cooperative hopes that Broken Social Scene will have a long shelf life, because a slew of videos is being planned. The band recently shot a clip with Micah Meisner (K-OS, Metric) for "7/4 (Shoreline)" that features vocalist Leslie Feist. Additional videos for "Fire-Eyed Boy," "Swimmers," "Hotel" and "Windsurfing Nation" are ... in the works.
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In Canada, Broken Social Scene is somewhat of a phenomenon. Since wooing fans and critics alike with their 2003 Juno Award-winning album You Forgot It in People, the band's peculiar popularity has made ...Read full review
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Two songs on the album stand out above everything else, and both feature two of Broken Social Scene's more well known female vocalists. "Backyards", recorded by the band in 2001 for a friend's art school project, is absolutely beautiful, as singer (and leader of Metric) Emily Haines provides some very beguiling vocals over a lush arrangement that includes banjo, synths, more of those guitar drones, and a bouncing drum beat, before dissolving into a coda of dreamy, distorted waves of sound. It's shocking that a song this great took so long to make it on a CD; some might find it's better than several tracks on You Forgot it in People. The band's great ballad "Lover's Spit" is the only re-worked album track, and instead of the majestic, grandiose treatment the song gets when performed live, this 2003 session for Britain's XFM radio is much more subtle, as it's reduced to a stark piano ballad, with Leslie Feist handling the vocals this time. The result is even more powerful than the original version, Feist's stunning voice adding more emotion than four loud guitars could ever manage.
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As previously reported, the band is already working on the follow-up to "Broken Social Scene," which will be released Oct. 4. "We are not going to over-think it too much," group member Brendan Canning recently told Billboard.com about the work-in-progress. "It's not going to be as great of a deconstruction process. The songs are bit more laid-back."
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[One] film, the Brooklyn-based indie "Half Nelson" (starring Ryan Gosling)... features Social Scene songs, albeit not tailored compositions. The filmmakers asked to use a whopping 16 songs from the first two BSS records, Feel Good Lost and You Forgot It in People. Naturally, the band was a bit dubious at first.
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