Some of the group's members include Leslie Feist, Emily Haines and James Shaw from Metric, a couple members of the post-rock band Do Make Say Think, indie pop band Stars and rock group The Weakerthans, among others. Known as a " musical collective", BSS is made up of numerous members who also perform in other groups or have solo careers of their own. The New York Times.Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock group which formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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However, the album divided critics more than its predecessor, 2002's You Forgot It in People.
It was also shortlisted for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize.
Awards and reviews Professional ratings Aggregate scoresĪt the 2006 Juno Awards it won the award for Alternative Album of the Year.
She warns against "scouring the pages for thinly disguised characterizations of Kevin Drew, Emily Haines or Amy Millan". Although Kaslik stated "It's definitely based on a world that I know", she brushed off claims that the connection goes very deep, saying "it would be mistaken and scurrilous to try to identify individual people". Kaslik attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts with members of the band and helped them on their first tour of Canada and the United States. It is also suggested that Broken Social Scene is used as basis for a band that appears in Kaslik's second novel The Angel Riots, about a rising indie rock band from Montreal. The song "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)" refers to Canadian novelist Ibi Kaslik, a friend of the band. Additionally, the original artwork was to be a cartoon rendition of Pangaea, which was later scrapped in favor of the current artwork drawn by lead singer Kevin Drew. The album was originally to be titled Windsurfing Nation.