![]() Narcissism has lost its responsibility, and as soon as popularity became an art form, music lost most of its value. We live in a very addictive society right now. He’s always telling me that the world’s a better place than it’s ever been, and I’m always looking at him and saying, “Could you please explain that?” ![]() That’s what Charlie Spearin and I battle with. Like on the new song “Mouth Guards of the Apocalypse,” you sing: “Words of hope are a joke for the numb.” What’s interesting about the band is that you offer people this communal, visceral hope, but there’s also a darker side. Looking at the general state of the world right now, we knew that putting our unified friendship out there was a great protest that we could do. We wanted this to be a record that we wrote from the ground up together, because that’s our message: We’re all still here and we’re all still friends. Understanding someone artistically is one of the most powerful things that you can be involved in. It comes with the melodies-you get into a room together and you immediately know what the other person’s going to play. How does that longtime connection play out in the music at this point? Social media bamboozles us into thinking we are connected, that we’re on a platform of attention and feeling love, but you need that crew to get to the essence of what connection truly is. It doesn’t come from the 750 strangers that you follow and look at online, or the people that you casually see. But the core of who you are comes from the people you spend your time with. “Wait, you got invited? How come I’m not invited?” You’ve got to take breaks from each other too, especially since this life is just so emotionally intense. There were a few weddings where it got a little tense. If someone in the band gets married, does everyone need to be invited? That’s a lot of people. People thought it was not going to work out from an ego perspective, but the reason it has comes down to the relationships: The dinners and birthdays and baby showers and weddings have kept coming. Pitchfork: Around the time Broken Social Scene started out in the early 2000s, would you ever have guessed the band would still be going 15 years later? This is why it’s wonderful to have a crew.” It is a toxic way of living but it’s also a very natural feeling. Because when you get older, even if you have the greatest of lives, you can’t help but shadow yourself with what hasn’t happened. Now more than ever, he feels lucky to be in a band full of such back rubbers, some of whom he’s known since high school. ![]() “You’ve got to have someone that’s able to rub your back and not just write you a little thumbs up,” he tells me after trying and failing to plug our call into his car stereo, because his phone doesn’t have a headphone jack. The 40-year-old is a true believer in people and blood and spit, and that’s why the supposedly more automatic elements of the modern world are such an affront to him. barstool philosopher, a crotchety luddite, a starry-eyed hippie, and a paranoid pessimist, sometimes all within a few sentences. Talking on the phone from his home in Toronto, Drew can sound like a 3 a.m. It’s been seven years since their last record, but here they are again-all of them-for their latest exercise in solidarity, Hug of Thunder. Given the enormity of the endeavor-and that members are often busy with other projects including Feist, Metric, and Do Make Say Think -Broken Social Scene’s very existence always seems to be teetering on the void. This is a band that has always thrived on a charming type of interconnected excess-more fanfares, more backwashed ballads, more ambient interludes, more anthems. As the self-described “semi-leader” of Broken Social Scene, he’s helped corral the collective’s bulging ranks-there are currently 17 official members-through five albums and countless tours since 2001. But pretty much everything he does is too much. He pauses, perhaps thinking about how such a diatribe will look in print. There’s only so much space, and you’re supposed to protect that space in order to keep moving forward-that’s what gives you a sense of hope.” ![]() “Brains are getting so much information that they never feel safe within the moment we have. “It’s neurological,” he revs up, hypothesizing on the mental damage that comes with constant screen time. ![]()
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