Originally slated for release in 2016, the details couldn’t come together in time despite Chicarelli’s insistence on responding musically to the cultural moment. The end result of Drew’s diligence and Canning’s “catalytic” role is titled Hug of Thunder, a new 11-track album produced by Joe Chicarelli (Spoon, The Shins, The Strokes). We wanted to hang out, make meals, and get back to one, as it were, like a very Monday-to-Friday operation.” We turned it into a jam space, Charles manned the board and we rented gear all in this Victorian house built in the 1880s where I’ve lived for 20 years. We started in 2016 under Joe’s idea, who said we should set up in my living room. We all want to get on that clear path and it takes a while to get on that same page. I’m trying to get people to see the clear path. I’m trying to pull the best out of everyone. I’m the de facto A&R guy of the band that no one knows about -even the band members themselves. You’re either suffocated or you have competing ideas or if you don’t talk everything out, then certain things fester.
“After so many years, certain things can deflate you and I didn’t want to have any of those negative thoughts that come with being in a band around us. “I really want to do my job in this band,” says Canning. Thus if the band was ever going to return, it was going to take Canning and Drew in tandem. While other members come and go to various projects that include Feist, Do Make Say Think, Stars, and Metric, Drew and Canning remain the sun in Social Scene’s solar system, even as they stay plenty busy with their own musical projects.
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You never quite know what’s going to happen, but we just did what we know how to do very well, which is to be in a room together, create melodies, not get in each other’s way and have everyone be the best that they are.”Ĭanning is a big part of the internal process, a co-leader, who has been at the core with Drew since the outset. “It was a very natural process in the return. It’s been quite a while, so who is in?’ People slowly said, ‘I’m in,’ then they made time in their busy lives to come out and start playing with us again. “We put out an email saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to make another record. People just slowly started appearing,” says Drew. “We decided to set all of that aside and said, ‘Let’s just get in a room and start playing together.’ Over the course of a year, on and off, we were rehearsing, jamming and recording. Since then the email chains have grown (Canning says it takes thousands of emails to organize everything it takes for a new Broken Social Scene record release), but the mission remains the same. We tried really hard to break through when things were easier logistically and financially and we never quite got there.’”įortunately the voices outside eventually overpowered the internal ones and Drew set out to do what he’s done every few years since he and a few others recorded Feel Good Lost in 2001. You live a humble life and think, ‘Maybe our time came. Charlie and I were on the fence because you don’t know anymore if people care. He was coming to Toronto and meeting with the guys.
If we’re going to do this, we’re going to want new material.’ Joe Chiccarelli was also really pushing for us to make a record with him. “Charles called me the next day and said, ‘I just want to play shows now.’ Within that, Brendan was also really adamant about saying, ‘Let’s record a new record then. “After that horrible night in Paris where you feel not only for all of the families involved, the fans, the venue, and the band, you also feel for this idea that just hit so close to home,” says Drew. It also took a moment of legitimate terror to strike a communal chord. It took those inside and outside of the band to convince Drew to rally the musical troops.
Despite the success of that album, the myriad successful projects associated with the band, the supergroup status attached to the name Broken Social Scene, Drew needed some encouragement to believe the fans who were there in the past would be there again. Seven years have passed since the band’s last album, Forgiveness Rock Record, a near lifetime in the “here today, gone today” modern musical climate. The ringleader, if there must be one, for Broken Social Scene points to the calendar as his primary reason for doubt. Kevin Drew wasn’t sure anyone would care.
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