Canadian super-group Broken Social Scene has been touring and working on solo projects for leads Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew for the five years since their previous release You Forgot It In People, but they’ve just released some details on their not-yet-titled upcoming album, releasing May 4, 2010. Given the ever-changing size and line-up of Broken Social Scene, as members come and go and work with other bands, it’s always a question who exactly will be featured on an album – this time they’ve managed to supplement their core six-person group (Canning, Drew, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, and Sam Goldberg) with guest appearances from friends and often collaborators Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw (of Metric), Amy Millan and Evan Cranley (of Stars), and Leslie Fiest (of…Feist), among many others.
In an interview with Pitchfork, Kevin Drew cautions that most of these performers are less involved that in previous records, mostly coming in to lay vocals over already-written songs rather than collaborating from the beginning. That likely also means none of them will be involved in Broken Social Scene’s upcoming US tour. I would’ve loved to have the chance to see them all together, but Broken Social Scene is awesome enough on their own to be worthy of attention, celebrity guest performers or not.
Here’s a couple of older songs:
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February 4, 2010
Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl has been popping up on best of the decade lists, btw (and for good reason).
February 4, 2010
You mean because it’s TOTALLY AWESOME? I’m listening to a BSS playlist right now, and I almost had to stop and put Anthems on repeat for a while. But I was strong and didn’t. Yet.
February 5, 2010
Totally. I HATE repetitive songs, but its ironic that it’s almost as repetitive as it gets and I can actually put the song on repeat and still completely dig it. Love the way it slowly builds and the catchy vibe.
Look forward to a new BSS album with anticipation – they were awesome at Lolla a couple years back. Maybe I’ll watch Half-Nelson late tonight in a drunken and drug-induced stupor.
February 6, 2010
I second that BSS were awesome at Lolla a couple years back. I went from the relaxing sounds of BSS over to Rage and it was one of the best concert experiences ever. Such a strange dichotomy.
February 22, 2010
[...] within the same week, I consider that a good day. We’ve share details on both these albums in these pages, and it looks like both are due to come out the same day – May 4th, 2010 [...]