Kevin Drew

Biography

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. 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 co-directed 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. 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, Stars' Amy Millan, and novelist Ibi Kaslik, 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×Darlings18 March 2014 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Body Butter2:252Good Sex3:093It's Cool3:514Mexican Aftershow Party3:275You Gotta Feel It4:036First in Line3:037Bullshit Ballad4:128My God4:459You in Your Were4:0010You Got Caught4:0711And That's All I Know5:24, was released on March 18, 2014.
On January 15, 2013, Drew announced in an interview that he had begun working on a new album with The Archies songwriter, Andy Kim. The album, It's Decided, was released in 2015.
Drew's third solo album, Influences×Influences16 July 2021 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 8 tracks1The Slinfold Loop5:022Hopefully Something4:453Dooms Dive5:254Shadow Rescues4:565You and Me and Them5:446Wilner’s Parade4:317Explosive Lip Balm3:528Almost Victory (Keep End Going)8:58, was released on July 16, 2021. He wrote the album while staying in England during 2020, using a music making smartphone app called Endlesss. The album was recorded and mixed on Drew's return to Canada.

Production

Drew and Dave Hamelin coproduced The Tragically Hip's album Man Machine Poem, 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.

Solo

Spirit If... (2007)
Darlings (2014)
Influences (2021) (as K.D.A.P.)
Aging (2023)

Broken Social Scene

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)
Remember the Humans (2026)

KC Accidental

Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub - (1998)
Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills - (2000)

Experimental Parachute Movement

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