Otherwise, you’ll just have to settle for it being a very good album. How can I tell you I hear the way you are How can I tell you I hear the way you are How can I tell you I hear the way you are Days go dark the nights are drawn How can I tell you I hear the way you are Days don't end the nights are long Days don't end the nights are long Just take it Just take it like you're strong You're just the latest in the long list of lost loves (loves) Just leave it We. ![]() If it’s been a minute since you’ve spent time with BSS, Hug Of Thunder could be a revelation. ![]() As fun as Drew’s “Halfway Home” is, it’s a total ringer for the band’s 2005 breakout, “7/4 (Shoreline).” The muscular arrangements and horn flares elevate “Vanity Pail Kids” and “Gonna Get Better” much in the same way they did for the standouts on Forgiveness Rock Record. With so many talented cooks contributing to Hug Of Thunder, not to mention the significant gap between its release and its predecessor (2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record), the retreads of familiar sonic ground are a bit disappointing. Singer Ariel Engle is the most prominent addition, taking the reins on highlights “Stay Happy” and “Gonna Get Better.” Haines shines on the breathless “Protest Song,” and under Feist’s guidance, the title track is one of the band’s best. Hug Of Thunder features just about all of the marquee names associated with BSS (Feist, Metric’s Emily Haines, Stars’ Amy Millan), but they share the spotlight with a handful of new recruits. With several members boasting their own celebrated careers, each assembly of BSS can end up feeling like a family reunion, inside jokes and all. Though guitarist Kevin Drew and bassist Brendan Canning serve as de facto leaders, BSS thrives on collaborations that yield results greater than the sum of their parts. ‘Hug Of Thunder’ marks the fifth studio album from Canadian alt-rock super-group Broken Social Scene, their first in seven years – released via Arts and Crafts July 7th 2017.Broken Social Scene albums have never been about raising the profiles of the group’s dozen-plus members. Instead, Broken Social Scene are decorating a growing world of “everything now”, Trump-ian individualism with bombastic invention, and they want you to follow. Much like the canvas depicted on the album’s cover – decaying, yet doused with shapes and colour, the church-of-utopian-ism have revealed the ugly face of the modern ghost with ‘Hug of Thunder’, but have avoided falling into the beast’s pit. “All the fools are winning, and nobody’s wild,” sings Drew – the answer of finding yourself washed up on a different shore painted between the exhaustion. Distortion quests celebratory musical sketches – decorated with snaking immediacy, before finally turning to “I will be me,” as a mantric answer to the paralysis of being.īetween the veins of lightning, ‘Hug of Thunder’s October-phase in ‘Please Take Me With You’ quietly fulfills the thoughts running through the record. “Take it like your strong,” demands Metric’s Emily Haines of the jaded and dejected listener against over-active, ultralight-beam groove on ‘Protest Song’, where the latest addition to the revolving-door outfit in Ariel Engle leads ‘Stay Happy’: a demolitionary exploration of uncertainty. “Come right into the sunlight,” instructs the red-thread of the Baroque-pop collective in hope of offering an element of sobering, hyper-reality to “cold eyes”. ‘Sol Luna’s ocean walks tentatively out of a near-decade of silence, only to be met with ring-leader Kevin Drew’s fallen face melting into what he describes as “horror time” on ‘Halfway Home’ – alluding to the “self-care” littered, feeling-destroying sterility of contemporary culture. ![]() ![]() 2010’s ‘Forgiveness Rock Record’ closed with a two-minute ode to the loneliness found in self-gratification on ‘Me and My Hand’, so it’s no surprise that following 7-years of dormancy, the experimental cult has rediscovered urgency in the fact that their very existence is at war with a world that is increasingly disconnected and autonomous, and from this urgency, ‘Hug of Thunder’s triumphant power is sourced.ġ8-players flank ‘Hug of Thunder’, but regardless of identity overkill, the fever-dream – anchored by equal measures of content-nausea and connection, is incredibly focused. Recorded October 23, 2017.Host: Stevie ZoomAudio Engineer: Ke. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. For almost two-decades, the Toronto-hailing army-of-indie that is Broken Social Scene have been traversing their counter-cultural anxieties with visions of familial community and refreshing doses of celebratory sound-collage – ushering in some of our darkest political hours with defiant, unabashed joy. presents Broken Social Scene performing 'Protest Song' live in the KEXP studio.
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