Broken Social Scene Reveal Album Details; Announce Tour
By Mikela Floyd on February 1, 2010
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Canadian indie collective Broken Social Scene will be releasing their new, as-yet-untitled album May 4, via Arts & Crafts. Co-produced by the band and Tortoise’s John McEntire at Soma Studios in Chicago, with additional recording at Giant Studio and The Schvitz Studio in Toronto, the new album is the follow up to their acclaimed self-titled record, released in 2005.
The new record was written and arranged by the band's current line-up (Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Sam Goldberg, and Lisa Lobsinger).It also features guest turns by several Broken Social Scene alumni, including Leslie Feist; Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars; Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric; Jason Collett; Ohad Benchetrit of Do Make Say Think and Years; John Crossingham; Marty Kinack; Leon Kingstone; and Julie Penner.
The record also includes contributions by John McEntire, The Sea and Cake’s Sam Prekop, Tortoise’s Doug McCombs, Pavement’s Spiral Stairs, Sebastian Grainger, Poi Dog Pondering’s Susan Bells, Helen Money’s Alison Chesley and The Weakerthans’ Jason Tait.
With their new album, the first Broken Social Scene record following the acclaimed Broken Social Scene Presents… series, the band decided it was time to try something new. As a core six-piece who had spent most of 2007 and 2008 on the road, Drew, Canning, Spearin, Whiteman, Goldberg and Peroff spent early 2009 working on new material in Toronto. The pairing down of the band’s massive personnel list for the first time proved extremely fruitful; they created spacious songs written as a band by a band, resulting in more cohesive, melody-driven compositions than previous BSS output. They then decamped to Chicago, recording outside of Toronto for the first time, which allowed them to fully immerse themselves in the recording process. In producer John McEntire – a musical hero for many of the band’s members – they found a fresh perspective on their own sound; this continued to fuel the creative process, resulting in nearly 40 songs written in and out of the studio, a number of which were put together as the first new Broken Social Scene record in five years.
The band will perform a brief series of dates in support of their new release. A pre-sale for tickets to shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York starts today via GalleryAC.com. The dates:
Broken Social Scene Tour Dates
May
1- San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
3- Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
7- New York, NY @ Webster Hall
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