Broken Social Scene is a Canadian musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. All of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto. The band refuses the label "supergroup", claiming that in the indie scene everyone is involved in more than one project.
The band's core members are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. This duo recorded and released the band's ambient debut album, Feel Good Lost in 2001. However, when they played shows to support the album, Drew and Canning found it difficult to put together an entertaining show based on their material thus far, which was almost entirely instrumental. As a result, they brought in a number of friends from the Toronto indie scene to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. A new musical collective was born.
The group's sound could be considered a combination of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally considered baroque pop. It is characterized by a very large number of sounds and grand orchestrations featuring guitars.
Broken Social Scene released their fourth full-length album, Forgiveness Rock Record, on May 4, 2010.
The video for All to All - showing people in a chain slapping each other in slow motion, setting off the next slap in the chain - was created by Strike Anywhere Films, and as rumor goes, Broken Social Scene liked it so much, they've decided to make it the official video.
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