![]() ![]() ĭrew and Canning's material at the time was almost entirely instrumental, so they brought together musicians from the Toronto indie scene, the album contributors as well as Andrew Whiteman, Jason Collett, and Metric's Emily Haines, to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. This duo recorded and released the band's ambient debut album, Feel Good Lost, on Noise Factory Records in 2001, with contributions by Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Bill Priddle, Leslie Feist, Jessica Moss and Stars' Evan Cranley. The band was formed in 1999 by core members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. The collective and their respective projects have had a broad influence on alternative music and indie rock during the early 21st century, in 2021 Pitchfork listed the band among the "most important artists" of the last 25 years. In 2010, Bruce McDonald made This Movie Is Broken, a movie about the band's Harbourfront show during the 2009 Toronto strike. Stuart Berman's This Book Is Broken (2009) covers the band from its inception to its critical acclaim. It includes grand orchestrations featuring guitars, horns, woodwinds, and violins, unusual song structures, and an experimental, and sometimes chaotic production style from David Newfeld, who produced the second and third albums. The group's sound combines elements of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally considered baroque pop. These associated acts include Metric, Feist, Stars, Apostle of Hustle, Do Make Say Think, KC Accidental, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Amy Millan, and Jason Collett. Most of its members play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly in the city of Toronto. Alongside Drew and Canning, the other core members of the band are Justin Peroff (drums), Andrew Whiteman (guitar) and Charles Spearin (guitar). Indie rock, experimental pop, noise pop, post-rock, baroque pop īroken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999. Left to right: Brendan Canning, Ohad Benchetrit, Torquil Campbell, Kevin Drew, Andrew Whiteman, Julie Penner, Lisa Lobsinger Cult MTL, September 23, 2021.Broken Social Scene performing in England in 2006. ^ Erik Leijon, "Two stars of the Montreal music scene unite for All Hands Make Light".^ "Find out who made the 2019 Polaris Music Prize long list".^ "Safia Nolin talks breakups, style police and fear of the CAQ victory".^ "Ariel Engle is La Force to be reckoned with".^ "Ariel Engle steps out solo as La Force".^ "Broken Social Scene's latest offers up one rousing song after another".^ "Polaris Music Prize announces 2014 long list" Archived 3 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine.^ "Poet gave AroarA a haunting vision Montreal duo sets Alice Notley's words to dreamy music".^ "Montag: A Laptop Faithful No More".^ a b Ben Rayner, "Broken Social Scene put it back together for Hug of Thunder".She subsequently joined Efrim Menuck in the noise-pop project All Hands Make Light. La Force was a longlisted nominee for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize. In the same year, she appeared on Safia Nolin's album Dans le noir as a duet vocalist on the track "Lesbian Break-Up Song". Her self-titled debut album as La Force was released in September 2018 on Arts & Crafts Productions. In 2018, Engle launched the solo project La Force. The 2017 album Hug of Thunder marked her first recorded appearance on a Broken Social Scene album. įollowing In the Pines, Engle became a member of Broken Social Scene, often serving as a live fill-in vocalist on songs that had been sung on record by Feist, Amy Millan or Emily Haines. The band's 2013 EP In the Pines, based on the poetry of Alice Notley, was a longlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize. ![]() She subsequently appeared as a guest or backing vocalist on recordings by Melissa Auf der Maur, Snowblink, Land of Kush, Plants and Animals, Stars and Martha Wainwright before collaborating with her husband, Broken Social Scene's Andrew Whiteman, on the band project AroarA. Įngle first became noted as a guest vocalist on Montag's 2005 album Alone, Not Alone, performing vocals on the track "Grand Luxe". ![]() Ariel Engle is a Canadian indie pop singer and songwriter who records and performs as a solo artist and with Broken Social Scene. ![]()
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