Some have called it a comeback, but others just view it as another stellar set of songs in a discography that has already produced more than one landmark indie rock LP. Like most of Drew’s production work, guitars and pianos are laced with echo and reverb, giving an emotional setting for a song to build off of, and it’s this aesthetic that fans have come to know from all of Drew’s musical endeavors, which is why these crucial collaborations would eventually set Drew on the path back to getting the band back together for at least one more show, this time in the form of new album While he had produced other artists before (see the gone-but-not-forgotten Still Life Still), 2015 saw him stepping up his collaborations, working on an acclaimed solo set for “Sugar Sugar”/ “Rock Me Gently” songwriter Andy Kim in 2015. Libido-driven solo album in 2014, but most crucially finding his home producing other artists. While Arts & Crafts-associated artists continued winning Juno Awards and getting nominated for Polaris Music Prizes since that 2011 break, Drew kept himself busy, dropping a more Of course, for a band whose membership ranks can swell to nearly 15 at any given time, and with each of those members engaged in solo projects of their own (and nearly all of them associated with founder Kevin Drew’s record label Arts & Crafts in some capacity or another), the group never truly felt gone. Shortly after the Canadian collective released their 2010 alternative-pop stunnerįorgiveness Rock Record, the band went on the dreaded “ indefinite hiatus“, a phrase often associated with a group calling it quits. For a time there, Kevin Drew wanted to get away from himself.
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