From the band name on down, Broken Social Scene were destined to lead a fractured, messy existence.įirst off, it’s impossible to write an article about this band without paying tribute to This Book Is Broken, an essential document if you want to know about the band’s formation, trajectory, and initial impact. Broken Social Scene were a collective in the best sense of the word, and the ever-expanding and -contracting nature of the group was built into its foundation. And though Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning would become the axis around which the group eventually spun, there are countless others that contributed to the revered status that the band has today. These bands grew out of - or, really, created - the hotbed that was the late-’90s/early-’00s Toronto music scene, and all of them owe their enduring popularity, at least in part, to the massive force that was Broken Social Scene. Feist, Metric, and Stars are the obvious touchstones - and they all deserve articles like this of their own one day - but even the smaller groups and progenitors of BSS are beyond compare: hHead, Do Make Say Think, Apostle Of Hustle, Cookie Duster, and, of course, KC Accidental. The amount of talent inside and on the periphery of this band is monumental. Has there been a better collective in the past two decades than Broken Social Scene? I really doubt it.
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