The duo initially invited their friends and other artists to join the band in order to flesh out their live performances. Their debut album, вЂњFeel Good LostвЂќ (2001), was a subdued, mostly instrumental project, filled with the reverb-drenched guitars that would come to characterize the bandвЂ™s later works. вЂњWe just decided to hang a banner up and put a name on it.вЂќД¬anning co-founded Broken Scene Social with Drew in 1999. вЂњI mean, every city has a scene,вЂќ he added. вЂњWeвЂ™re kind of like a Wu-Tang Clan or something,вЂќ Canning - a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and one of the bandвЂ™s core members - dryly remarked during a video call with the Star this month. Today, one could easily spend a couple of hours on Wikipedia trying to trace the tangled web of Canadian artists and acts associated with the band, whose ever-changing lineup has ranged between six and 19 members - including heavy hitters like Leslie Feist, Emily Haines ( Metric), Amy Millan ( Stars), Jason Collett, Ohad Benchetrit ( Do Make Say Think) and Lisa Lobsinger ( Reverie Sound Revue), to name a few.

Written by Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew but featuring contributions from dozens of local musicians, the album managed to harness the freewheeling energy of TorontoвЂ™s burgeoning indie scene - a winning formula that makes Broken Social Scene one of the most influential alternative groups of the 21st century. ItвЂ™s been nearly two decades since the release of вЂњYou Forgot It in People,вЂќ a bona fide indie rock classic that transformed Broken Social Scene from a two-man basement project into a sprawling and amorphous music collective.

Almost crimes broken social scene