While by no means an intentional, ploy to confuse devotees the world over,
Broken Social Scenes newest idea to slap
Broken Social Scene Presents across anyone of its who-knows-how-many members solo releases in the future could have the masses doing a quick double take every time the name crops up in front of them. Why, just this week, following an announcement that
Feist and
BSS would be swinging through NYC together for a summer outing at McCarren Park Pool (August 29th), I got quite jazzed up for the show.
Thing is, its not
Broken Social Scene
Its
Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene. He just happens to be playing material he prepped for his upcoming solo album,
Spirit Of... And his solo album just happens to be the first in a
Broken Social Scene Presents series. It also just happens to be coming out on September 18th, courtesy of
Arts & Crafts Records.
A&C also just happen to add
Kevin Drew's
Spirit If... was recorded over the last two years at
Ohad Benchetrits house in between social scene tours and day-to-day life. It was produced by
Ohad Benchetrit, Kevin Drew, and
Charles Spearin.
This is the first in the
Broken Social Scene Presents series.
Brendan Canning and company are currently recording the second in Toronto. It will be released early next year. Drew and Canning, the two co-founders of
Broken Social Scene decided to approach making records as solo projects. In the process the social scene community took part and played key supporting roles, thus giving birth to this series.
Along with the BSS crew, Drew has invited many other guests to perform on
Spirit If...
The record unfolds like an emotional comic book. It's Drew's song-writing and all his favorite topics are addressed: fucking, fighting, fearing and hope.
