“Ariel’s sense of melody was equalled by her eclectic taste in musical elements, which made the whole process kind of exciting,” he says. And then eventually was like, ‘You know, maybe you just need to do this alone.’ And I think what he was saying was something I knew to be true, but I hadn’t admitted it to myself.”Įngle turned to Plants and Animals’ Warren Spicer to help produce what became her self-titled debut as La Force (out now on Arts & Crafts), reworking about half the tracks from the AroarA session and bringing her own new songs into the mix.īSS bandmate Charles Spearin also produced some early sessions at Stars’ rehearsal space in Montreal and his Toronto garage and recalls trying to capture the many “really, really good ideas” as they took shape. “It wasn’t a good dynamic – and we get along, so it was a bit odd for us. “At some point, I think it was a combination of doing Broken together, and then being parents, it became evident that something had to give and we couldn’t do absolutely everything together,” Engle says while vintage-shopping in Montreal with Stars’ Amy Millan, waving to Dears’ frontman Murray A. In working on the follow-up to AroarA’s well-received debut, Engle says she and Whiteman often found themselves at odds during the recording process. While she’s been a mainstay on the Montreal scene for the past 15 years, Engle’s more recent projects have finally pulled her into the spotlight – but going solo wasn’t necessarily the inevitable next step. To see Montreal singer Ariel Engle in any of her many musical guises – as the current main female vocalist with indie heroes Broken Social Scene, previously in dramatic duo AroarA with her husband (and BSS bandmate) Andrew Whiteman, and now stepping out solo as La Force – is to be struck by the compelling power of her otherworldly voice. LIGHTBURN at Adelaide Hall (250 Adelaide), Thursday (September 20), 8 pm.
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