![]() We all built our bands off the backs of everybody, and that's kind of done now. KD: On this trip, I've been getting sentimental about the old days, when nobody really had much. It feels like it did when we started the band. One of the great things about all of these people coming on this record is I actually got to see them for a couple a days.Ĭharles Spearin: And they put their heart into it because they realized it's now a rare opportunity for us to get together like this. Still, we don't see everyone like we used to. ![]() Kevin Drew: Decisions were made that derailed us, but it's a testament to our relationships that everyone still likes each other. Do you ever think about decisions you may have made along the way that would've totally derailed things? Now it's 2010 and people are still pretty interested in Broken Social Scene. Pitchfork: I went back and read an interview you did with us in 2003, and even then you were talking about the fleeting nature of success. "I love where you're going with this," Drew said to Spearin at one point, eager to hear what his friend would say next: But, rhapsodizing on the new album, they often seem to share a brain. Drew is the boyish divorcé Spearin is the grown-up husband and father of two. Spearin is the voice of reason, delivering profundity while remaining casual. Broken Social Scene are interested in the biggies that bring us together.ĭuring our chat, Drew is a ham, cracking wise and inventing voices under his cowboy hat. The result is another careening spree filled with anxiety, hope, love. Even though Drew didn't think some high-profile Scenesters like Feist and Metric's Emily Haines and James Shaw would make it onto Forgiveness, all of them and more eventually came through. This strong sense of kismet runs through the BSS operation, with its oft-changing lineup that always seems to come together at the right moments. ![]() They're talking to me about their new album, Forgiveness Rock Record, produced by Tortoise mastermind John McEntire. "Tortoise was the icebreaker." Fast forward more than a decade and the two musical soul mates are sitting in a big, empty room in Austin's Driskill Hotel, a mere wall away from SXSW's numbing hubbub. "Kevin came up to me and said, 'You look like a guy who likes Tortoise,'" Spearin recounts in Pitchfork contributor Stuart Berman's BSS oral history This Book Is Broken. In the late 1990s, Broken Social Scene linchpins Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin met at Toronto's Harris Institute for the Arts. ![]()
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