While the new record was the focus, with six songs including six songs including “Halfway Home,” “Protest Song,” and “Stay Happy” featuring throughout the night’s setlist, the band also spent a good deal of time with several of their previous albums. While the group’s two other famous singers Leslie Feist and Emily Haines were nowhere to be seen, Engle and Millan more than managed to handle the vocal duties well. The show on Wednesday started with a smaller lineup playing “Cause = Time” from 2002’s You Forgot It in People before the band was joined by the other members, including singers Ariel Engle (who joined last year and was making her first appearances with the band in DC) and Amy Millan (of Stars). For these shows the band ended up at a somewhat more modest ten people on stage. Part of the “collective” arrangement of the band is that people are coming and going all of the time depending on their availability, and because of this they’ve been known to have as many as nineteen members at a given time. We caught the second show on Wednesday evening.
Last week that brought them to DC to play two nights at the 9:30 Club. The group released their first album in seven years, Hug of Thunder, in July, and began an extensive North American tour in the middle of this month. And if you’ve ever fallen in love with Broken Social Scene – as many of us have – it is a perfect return that was truly worth the wait.After a six year hiatus during which they only played the occasional show in their native Canada, self-styled musical collective Broken Social Scene is back.
Hug Of Thunder is righteous but warm, angry but loving, melodic but uncompromising. The record’s twelve songs refract the band’s varying emotions, methods, and techniques in ways that not only reference their other albums, but surpass them. Since their inception in the early Aughts, BSS have always pushed sonic boundaries while remaining reverent of a perfect chorus almost twenty years down the line, Hug Of Thunder sharpens that balance. It is a panoramic, expansive album that manages to be both epic and intimate and like all things BSS, in troubled times, it offers a serotonin rush of positivity. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli and mixed by Shawn Everett, Hug Of Thunder is everything BSS fans love from the Canadian collective and then some, an album overflowing with glorious open chords, multi-voice harmonies, spacious psychedelia-tinted breakdowns, and more. With over 100 songs in their critically acclaimed catalogue, the Broken Playlist App creates dynamic, one-of-a-kind playlists of Broken Social Scene songs for whatever mood you want – from makeout music to beach days to road trip anthems and more. “ Skyline” is available for purchase and streaming HERE.īroken Social Scene have also unveiled the Broken Playlist App for Spotify. The band plays Primavera Sound, Barcelona tomorrow/Thursday night, and headlines Field Trip Festival, Toronto on Saturday night – the festival which the band curates in partnership with Live Nation and Arts & Crafts. Today the band has unveiled lead single from the album “Skyline” The album will be released via Arts & Crafts & City Slang. BSS also introduces the new Broken Playlist App For Spotifyīroken Social Scene’s long-awaited upcoming album is coming July 7 th, titled, Hug Of Thunder.
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