![]() “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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