When Feist joined the band for the highlight of the night, the brilliantly sugar-coated “Almost Crimes,” Detroit and Canada couldn’t have been better friends. Fan favorites such as “Cause=Time” and “Stars and Sons” were strung together with new material such as “Superconnected” and “7/4 (Shoreline)” off the newest self-titled LP. For when the band made a final attempt at pushing through their set, the result was a successful hour and a half of solid rock and roll. Perhaps the mildly disturbing occurrence was unsettling enough to scare Houdini’s ghost out of the theatre. This discussion, however, quickly turned into a bizarre striptease act in which Kevin stood before the sold-out crowd in nothing but a pair of boxers. Lead singer, Kevin Drew, did his best to improvise a question and answer time between the audience and himself. After a twenty-minute hiatus, one couldn’t help but sense that Houdini had his hand in the matter. Arcade Fire opened the floodgates to Canadian music in the middle years of the past decade and helped shine the spotlight on the likes of Stars, Metric and Feist. When BSS (with their ridiculous amount of stage-gear) has a tech problem, finding the cause is like finding the needle in a Marshall hay-stack. Although the elements of feedback and clamor have been no strangers to the band’s trademark sound, this was a pain-inducing, shrill noise. The band (as well as their sound-tech) was completely bewildered as to what was causing this holy mess. However, during the next two songs, a horrendous clamor of feedback and static brought the show to a screeching halt. At this point, all seemed well as the band of thirteen Canadians promised nothing other than their unique brand of guitar-heavy pop and organized chaos. After Feist made a failed attempt at seance, her appetizing performance was brought to conclusion.Īfter a fitting saxophone and trumpet intro, BSS stepped out onto the stage and quickly dove into a fiery-rendition of “KC Accidental” from their previous masterpiece, You Forgot In People. Apparently, the world-famous magician, Harry Houdini met his end in the theatre. Near the end of her set, she reminded the audience that this gorgeous venue also happened to have a dark history. On “Gatekeeper,” her backing band (which consisted entirely of Broken Social Scene members) proved to be in top-notch shape as they supporting the act. In true Jeff Buckley-esque fashion, her set was highlighted by an exceptional use of space and silence that aided the nuances of her subtle style. Broken Social Scene 'Broken Social Scene s/t > YFIIP'-jotw: 23: Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters 'potentially her best'-jotw: 24: Amon Tobin ISAM 'top 3 Amon Tobin album'-jotw: 25: Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank 'We Were Dead is a top 3 MM album on a good day and vastly more entertaining than TM&A (and obviously Good News lmfao. Her performance of solo material left many speechless. The angelic female singer-songwriter Feist, an occasional contributer to Broken Social Scene, opened the show. While border-crossers and college students eagerly awaited this sold out performance, it was clear that the buzz of Broken Social Scene had, if for only one night, brought music fans from two countries together. In between their second and third albums, the band cranked out a less inspired sounding compilation of B-sides entitled Bee Hives before releasing their self-titled and heavily orchestrated 2005 album with contributions from members of the Dears and Raising the Fawn.It quickly became apparent by the increasing murmur of “eh’s” that Broken Social Scene was not without the support of their fellow Canadians. That's right, Broken Social Scene was an 11-person ensemble before they recorded and unveiled You Forgot It In People, which worked because of the singular-yet-eccentric vision of all the people involved, creating a work of sheer beauty with their tight pop structures and lush sonic textures. It's particularly impressive for an album to score above a 4.00. The grading of the albums is on a 1-5 scale, rounded to the nearest hundredth.
Leslie Feist (who now makes beautiful music under the Feist moniker) also joined, along with Toronto local luminaries Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff and Jason Collett. For the people who don't know what RYM is (and I imagine there probably isn't too many), RateYourMusic is a site dedicated to cataloging and rating every piece of music in existence.
They added Charles Spearing from Do Make Say Think, Evan Cranley from Stars and Emily Haines and James Shaw from Metric to round out the sound. Accidental and By Divine Right's Brendan Canning. Canada's Broken Social Scene is an amalgam of Toronto indie musicians initially comprised of Kevin Drew of K.C. If you think California indie rock bands are overflowing and incestuous in their lineups, take a trip up to the Great White North. AOR, Yacht Rock Parts are sold daily call for availability Breaking out onto the scene in 2014 with his debut mixtape Thirst 48 as well as.