Earlier this year, gloom-rock underdogs The Stills broke up. Simple enough story, bands break up all the time. Open and shut case. Or was it? Somewhere in the background, dark forces were lurking. The league of wizards known as Broken Social Scene were watching The Stills’ every move, a feat made easy by the fact that bands were both signed to Arts & Crafts. Even as The Stills breathed their last, Broken Social Scene were hatching shadowy plans. Those plans are just now coming to fruition, in the form of a new band called Eight and a Half, formed by Broken Social Scene’s Justin Peroff and The Stills’ Dave Hamelin and Liam O’Neil.
To complete Broken Social Scene’s evil ceremony, they need only the heart of a centaur princess and to sign the group to Arts & Crafts. Consider the latter completed! Arts & Crafts will be putting out the group’s debut in early 2012. Until then, the group has their debut single, “Scissors,” to offer. That single can be found at the band’s Soundcloud page, as well as their official website. Along with the untouched single, there’s also a more touched remix from LA beat-making fellow TOKiMONSTA, available for download at RCRD LBL and for streaming at the aforementioned Soundcloud page.
Finally, to prove that Broken Social Scene’s shadow fingers touch every corner of the world of music, the single and remix combination are coming out as a 10-inch single through Arts & Crafts by the year’s end, in addition to currently being available in digital forms through the label’s digital store and iTunes. Now, I can finally feel the Broken Social Scene hex lifting from my soul.
• Eight and a Half: http://www.eight-and-a-half.com
• Arts & Crafts: http://www.arts-crafts.ca
