Broken Social Scene covers Modest Mouse’s “The World at Large” for The Voice Project – a non-profit organization that supports the women and the peace movement in Uganda.
Kevin Drew and other two founding fathers of BSS – Charles Spearin and Brendan Canning – gather in Spearin’s Toronto home studio to offer their best adaptation of the track from Good News for People Who Love Bad News. “The only thing about it is that I’m no Isaac (Brock),” Drew warns, “and I have no desire to cover the song and make it the same thing.”
And after a few minutes of talking it out and reassembling the instrumental arrangements, the band shows why BSS is one of the best jam bands of our time, producing a modest, remarkable take on a song about drifting, searching, darkness and reassurance.
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I think your summary of the song as ‘drifting, searching, darkness and reassurance’ pretty much sums it up. I love that projects such as this exist, it makes me feel reassured.
I like this lyric from the song: “The moths beat themselves to death against the lights”