![]() “We’re a hope-anthem band!” Drew declared as they plucked favorites from other parts of their repertoire, “7/4 (Shoreline)” requiring a wide lens to take in all the musicians onstage weaving together in 7/4 time. In the wave/particle duality of rock bands, BSS were always more wave, rippling positive energy through a crowd that diffracted, refracted and reflected it back again. “Stars and Sons,”featuring four guitars behind a wavy bass riff, Amy Millan (of Stars) taking lead vocal duties on “Almost Crimes,” which literally had the club moving beneath my feet, and then Whiteman taking down things with “Looks Just Like the Sun,” Broken Social Scene reminding us that they can do small and pretty just as easily as they can do big and bigger. The first 40 minutes of the set was exclusively from YFIiP, the musicians rotating through instruments (like Spearin from trumpet to bass to guitar and back again) in some complicated choreography. Drew announced, “Let’s let it all go tonight” and they launched into “KC Accidental,”a surge of indie-rock electricity jolting the room, the unique BSS energy building, Drew crooning to the crowd, Whiteman offering his first guitar solo of the night, everything building to a powerful horns-heavy coda. ![]() Broken Social Scene have always been a strength-in-numbers affair, more collective than band, no set lineup or classic formulation, but when they finally did take the stage, doing their psych-up huddle, the crowd got raucous at the sight of the familiar faces of Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin and more. ![]() If you had wandered off the street never having heard of BSS before, you might be wondering just what you’d gotten yourself into before the first note had been played, but the sold-out Webster audience giddily awaiting the final show of the band’s tour celebrating 20 years since the release of their seminal You Forgot It in Peoplealbum, knew exactly what they had in store and could not wait. I counted 10 guitars and basses and at least seven microphones on Sunday night at Webster Hall. To gaze upon the still-empty stage before a Broken Social Scene show has begun is to view an invitation to chaos. Broken Social Scene Close Out Anniversary Tour in Style at Webster Hallīroken Social Scene – Webster Hall – October 16, 2022
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