Album Review: Something For All Of Us... by Brendan Canning

Brendan Canning, known most for his work with the band he co-founded, Broken Social Scene, demonstrates his solo musical know-how with the latest in the Broken Social Scene Presents series – the same series that launched band-mate and fellow co-founder Kevin Drew's Spirit If....Canning, with Something For All Of Us... (they sure do love those ellipses!) shows off a piece of the musical talent that has made the Canadian indie rock outfit a powerhouse in the genre. Canning's compositions range from powerful and soaring to quiet and relaxed, and, not unlike the full outfit, he proves capable of making music that's powerfully evocative.

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Brendan Canning, the bearded and bespectacled bassist (hooray for alliteration!) and co-founder of Canadian indie rock superheroes Broken Social Scene tossed his hat into the BSS side project machine with the aptly-titled Something for All of Us. . .

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This is the second in the Broken Social Scene Presents series, but unlike vaguely BSS-related projects like Metric or Feist, this one features so many band members and shares so much musically that it easily serves as a substantial snack to hold over hardcore fans of the band until they come out with a proper album. Canning seems most enamoured of an intimate fuzzed-out guitar pop sound here, although he also slips into some sleepy, atmospheric acoustic material and still seems to enjoy embellishing indie rock with horns and orchestration. A few lazy funk-rock moments work surprisingly well, but even those suffer from his tendency to bury great vocal hooks way down in the mix, as if this were an album of shoegazer drone rock.

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