#BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE NEW ALBUM FULL#

Though nothing ever reached the point of full collapse, the threat hovered at one point there was an inexplicable loud BANG! from offstage and once it was clear nobody was injured, the show moved on.īroken Social Scene | photo by John Vettese for WXPNīut the moments that were great, were so great. An eight-member edition of their coterie faced mildly chaotic setbacks throughout their Union Transfer set, from Drew switching up songs on the fly as his voice grew more and more raw over two-plus hours, to a sound tech who kept rushing onstage to fidget with drum mics and synth inputs up to the last song of the main set. The aughts were a strange time in music, an era of excess where bands took an auxiliary floor tom player on the road just because, and though Broken Social Scene never hit the point of bombast without purpose - truly the sound they create with all the multi-instrumental players and rotating vocalists is profoundly impactful - it is nevertheless bombast, and not always easy to cleanly execute. It also was the record that saw the explosion of Broken Social Scene from a two-person project to a sprawling multi-member “collective,” something that can be a blessing and a curse. It was an album that kickstarted a progression from ambient experimentalists to pop tunesmiths, and even though they never lost that experimental edge, the pop gets more and more refined with each passing project. It’s been 20 years since the band released their acclaimed sophomore LP You Forgot It In People, an album that - as de facto band leader Kevin Drew told a sold out Philly crowd - changed all their lives, and gave them the ability to take their music on the road and see the world beyond their Toronto art scene home base. “Until It’s Dead” (2006, from Lake Ontario Waterkeeper compilation At The Barricades: Vol.A Broken Social Scene concert is always cause for excitement, whether the reason be new music (like five years back when they brought their most recent album Hug of Thunder to town), or the celebration of a momentous milestone, like we got this Wednesday at Union Transfer. “Day Of The Kid” (2005, released on Arts & Crafts’ 10th-anniversary compilation) “Canada vs America” (2004, from the Self-Titled bonus CD, EP To Be You And Me) “This House Is On Fire” (2009, Forgiveness Rock Record outtake) “Golden Facelift” (2009, Forgiveness Rock Record outtake, released on Globe & Mail’s Broadsheet Music project) “National Anthem Of Nowhere” (2004, early Broken Social Scene version of an Apostle Of Hustle song) “Not At My Best” (2010, from the end credits for the film It’s Kind Of A Funny Story) “Curse Your Fail” (2009, from tour 7” split with The Sea And Cake) “Far Out” (2009, from the Forgiveness Rock Record pre-order EP Lo-Fi For The Dividing Nights) Old Dead Young: B-Sides And Rarities includes the following tracks: Since then, with follow-up releases like the blissfully chaotic Broken Social Scene (2005), the rapturous Forgiveness Rock Record (2010), and the intricate, melodic Hug of Thunder(2017), Broken Social Scene has amassed a thrillingly amorphous, unpredictable body of work.īuy or stream Old Dead Young: B-Sides And Rarities. Later, it set a new gold standard for indie rock in the 21st century with 2002’s You Forgot It In People, an album that pushed the genre far beyond its noisy ’90s slacker roots toward a more sonically expansive, emotionally expressive vision. The band released its debut album Feel Good Lost in 2001, presenting the project as an anonymous ambient project that reflected its humble, homespun origins.

Early iterations of the touring line-up included the likes of Metric’s Emily Haines, solo star Feist, Stars’ Evan Cranley, and more. “I’m just happy to clear out the closet, as it were.”Ĭanning formed Broken Social Scene alongside Kevin Drew in 1999, welcoming a revolving cast of musicians into the project over the intervening years. “I’m happy we’re able to put out some of these tunes, where you listen back and say ‘You know what, this easily could have been an A-side,’” the band’s co-founder Brendan Canning recently told the Calgary Herald.

#BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE NEW ALBUM FULL#

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