If you missed it, amorphous Canadian collective Broken Social Scene recently premiered a video for the song “Sweetest Kill” from last year’s Forgiveness Rock Record. Hardly living up to the “forgiveness” part of the album’s title, the clip stars a sultry Bijou Phillips mouthing the lyrics, wooing and murdering some…

A utopian collection of Canadian friends and associates, whose side projects also draw attention, Toronto’s Broken Social Scene came into fruition under the tutelage of de facto leaders Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Both singer/songwriters also scored big time indie rock points with their solo debuts while related projects by…

There’s a lot of melodic potential, it turns out, in the human voice, as much as in, say, a piano. Or a sax. Or a harp. Charles Spearin, of Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene, began experimenting with people’s voices as instruments about a year ago.…

Last year, Charles Spearin of Broken Social Scene casually interviewed his neighbors in downtown Toronto about happiness. Spearin, a practicing Buddhist, was not only interested in what his neighbors had to say, but also how they said it—the melodies, the rhythms, and the sing-song quality of their voices. Listening to…