Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars Bring the Right Kind of Nostalgia to Brooklyn Paramount: Review

Nostalgia is a funny thing. Through a certain lens — one I’ve personally gazed through many times — it can be lazy, reductive, even dangerous. Spend your time longing for a past that you imagine to be your best years, and you hobble yourself from building a meaningful present or, for the luckiest of us, a meaningful future. This isn’t a novel observation, and yet it’s one so many of us have a hard time putting into practice. Don’t believe me? Just scroll through the YouTube comments section of any song over 10 years old. For indie acts who hit their stride in the early to mid 2000s, nostalgia becomes an especially formidable force, looming like a slow-motion tidal wave as they enter middle age. These aren’t just people who experience nostalgia like the rest of us — they’ve created and energized it for the entire world with their art, however willingly or unwillingly. How do you handle that without going backwards? Do you surf the crest of the cascading water or just let it wash over and pummel you? Find 'All the Feelings Tour' Tickets Here Which brings us to Stars, Broken Social Scene, and Metric, legacy indie stalwarts whose bands may not all have formed in Canada, but whose membe...