Broken Social Scene’s co-founder and vocalist Kevin Drew announces new solo album

Compared to his solo debut Spirit If (2007), with its 23-piece band and romantic musings, to the synth-pop-tinged Darlings (2014) and its carnal obsessions, the forthcoming album, Aging’s collection of minimalist piano ballads is more contemplative than anything Drew has released before.

In 2021, Drew found himself at The Tragically Hip’s Bathouse studio near Kingston, Ont. where he had been making records for the last decade. The initial goal was to make a children’s album, but as Drew and longtime collaborator Nyles Spencer started recording, they found themselves working towards an album about getting older, pulling from a collection of songs that fit together sonically and thematically.

“Pain is a hard thing to let go until you’re ready,” Drew explains. “And that’s kind of where I was at with this record. Music, for me, is a release – it’s a place where I can go and express what it is that I want to say.”

In addition to the release of Aging, Drew has compiled a collection of self-portraits and free verse “puke poems” into a 75-page book titled Towards Everything. The book will be available to purchase with pre-orders of the new record. Kevin Drew will be playing parts of Aging throughout this fall’s forthcoming Broken Social Scene tour.

Tracklist:

1. Elevator
2. Out In The Fields
3. Party Oven
4. All Your Fails
5. Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark
6. Awful Lightning
7. Fixing The Again
8. You’re Gonna Get Better