Kevin Drew
Kevin Drew | |
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Kevin Drew at Ottawa Jazz Festival in 2025. | |
| Background information | |
| Born | September 7, 1976 |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Indie rock, baroque pop, alternative |
| Labels | Arts & Crafts |
| Website | kevindrewmusic.com |
Kevin Drew (born September 9, 1976) is a Canadian musician and songwriter who, together with Brendan Canning, founded the expansive Toronto baroque-pop collective Broken Social Scene.[1] He was also part of the lesser-known KC Accidental, which consisted of Drew and Charles Spearin, another current member of Broken Social Scene.
Drew has shared in the direction of Broken Social Scene videos under the name Experimental Parachute Movement. In 2008, he wrote and directed a short film called The Water, inspired by and starring his bandmate and former girlfriend Leslie Feist.[2] In 2009, Drew contributed to the AIDS benefit album, Dark Was the Night, produced by the Red Hot Organization.
Drew grew up in west Toronto and attended the Etobicoke School of the Arts, along with Metric's Emily Haines,[3] Stars' Amy Millan, and novelist Ibi Kaslik,[4] where he, Amy and Emily studied drama. He was married to Jo-ann Goldsmith, a social worker and an occasional trumpet player in BSS.
Drew's second solo album, Darlings, was released on March 18, 2014.[5]
On January 15, 2013, Drew announced in an interview that he had begun working on a new album with The Archies songwriter, Andy Kim.[6] The album, It's Decided, was released in 2015.[7]
Drew's third solo album, Influences, was released on July 16, 2021.[8] He wrote the album while staying in England during 2020, using a music making smartphone app called Endlesss.[9] The album was recorded and mixed on Drew's return to Canada.[10]
Production
[edit | edit source]Drew and Dave Hamelin coproduced The Tragically Hip's album Man Machine Poem,[11] and Gord Downie's subsequent solo album Secret Path.
Drew also produced Downie's final album Introduce Yerself and Reuben and the Dark's third album, un love.
Discography
[edit | edit source]Solo
[edit | edit source]- Spirit If... (2007)
- Darlings (2014)
- Influences (2021) (as K.D.A.P.)
- Aging (2023)
Broken Social Scene
[edit | edit source]- Feel Good Lost (2001)
- You Forgot It in People (2002)
- Bee Hives (2004)
- Broken Social Scene (2005)
- Forgiveness Rock Record (2010)
- Hug of Thunder (2017)
KC Accidental
[edit | edit source]- Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub - (1998)
- Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills - (2000)
Videography
[edit | edit source]Experimental Parachute Movement
[edit | edit source]- Apostle of Hustle
- Cheap Like Sebastian
- Broken Social Scene
- Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
- Almost Crimes (with Chris Mills)
- Cause=Time
- Fire Eye'd Boy
- Constantines
- Our Age 2009
- Stars
- Your Ex-Lover is Dead
- Bitches in Tokyo
- Still Life Still
- Pastel
- The Most Serene Republic
- Content Was Always My Favourite Colour
- The Water (2009) Starring Cillian Murphy, David Fox & Feist
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official Site
- Interview with Kevin Drew on kevchino.com
- Kevin Drew Interview with No Tofu by Kelly O'Rourke Archived June 9, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
- with Kevin Drew at Prefix
- Interview with Kevin Drew on AOL Music Canada Archived July 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Singers from Toronto
- Canadian indie rock musicians
- Arts & Crafts Productions artists
- People from Etobicoke
- Broken Social Scene members
- Canadian record producers
- Canadian male singer-songwriters
- Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year winners
- City Slang artists
- 21st-century Canadian male singers
- Etobicoke School of the Arts alumni
- 21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters
- Blurtonia members
- KC Accidental members
- Canadian Screen Award winning musicians