12 JAHRE FLEX - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE KEVIN DREW´S SPIRIT
We know what you’re thinking: is this a Kevin Drew album or a Broken Social Scene album? It’s OK if you’re a little confused, seeing as the record features all the usual BSS suspects.
Like Broken Social Scene’s first album, Feel Good Lost, this is music born in the basement – the 13 tracks on Spirit If… were culled from a large catalogue of songs recorded by Ohad Benchetrit at his house over the past two years, during those precious hours when BSS were off the road and Benchetrit’s kid was at daycare. (The end results were produced by Benchetrit, Charles Spearin – both from Do Make Say Think – and Drew.)But the qualities that are so often associated with Broken Social Scene – the instrumental overload, chaotic crescendos and big, brass-section blow-outs – are downplayed in favour of qualities that, up until now were heard mostly on rare b-sides and midnight BSS moments: Drew’s affectingly confessional and conversational songwriting and melancholic melodies, which, with the exception of You Forgot It In People’s “I’m Still Your Fag” and “Lover’s Spit,” have rarely had the opportunity to stand unadorned, on their own terms.
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