LP includes the vinyl-only bonus track “Old Dead Young. Artwork layout and design for the vinyl were done by two-time JUNO Award-winner (and Broken Social Scene’s drummer) Justin Peroff and kimikimo. It’s available in Coke bottle clear vinyl (Limited to 500, exclusive to pre-order purchases), 140g double-LP, gatefold jacket (matte UV), printed vinyl sleeves (matte UV), and a 28 page booklet with stitched spine affixed to jacket. Pre-order the physical album // Pre-order the digital albumĪ beautiful, limited edition vinyl version of the record is also available for pre-order. 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. 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. Featuring all 15 original members (including a standout performance by Feist on the title track), Hug of Thunder is, well, just that: rumbling, uplifting and. 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. 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. Tickets for all the band’s headlining shows will go on sale Wednesday, May 17th, via the Broken Social Scene website.
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For these dates, Broken Social Scene are partnering with Plus 1 so that $1 from every ticket goes towards providing access to arts education for young people in disadvantaged communities. Frightened Rabbit will support on select dates, as well The Belle Game tour dates are listed below.
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“Hug Of Thunder” follows the release of the song “Halfway Home,” which the band performed to rapturous response on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at the end of March.īroken Social Scene are also thrilled to announce their first full U.S.
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Today, the title track of the album has been revealed via Zane Lowe’s show on Beats 1 click HERE to listen to it. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli and mixed by Shawn Everett, Hug Of Thunder includes contributions from all fifteen original members of Broken Social Scene (see full list below), as well as new guest vocalist Ariel Engle. Toronto’s Broken Social Scene recently detailed their first album in seven years, Hug Of Thunder, out July 7th, 2017 on their label Arts & Crafts. “Broken Social Scene – bruised, beautiful and chaotically epic…Theirs is a breathtaking display of controlled euphoria.” - The Guardian, September 2016 Today the band has unveiled title track Hug Of Thunder, a song fronted by long term Broken Social Scene member Leslie Feist The brash, go-for-broke “Halfway Home” made for a big entrance for BSS, but the subtler give-and-take of “Thunder” feels more like a proper reacquaintance.Broken Social Scene’s long-awaited upcoming album is coming July 7 th, titled, Hug Of Thunder. The album will be released via Arts & Crafts & City Slang. “Thunder” showcases the spontaneity and communal spirit that have carried BSS from the start: every piece of the song, from Feist's discursive lyrics to the circuitous rhythm and flickers of U2-like guitar, all seem to contour around each other, moving as one without falling into lockstep. “Thunder” skips the blood-rush crescendos of “Halfway” entirely, opting for a loose, worn-in skitter more in line with the You Forgot It in People highlight “Stars and Sons.” Feist-takes a cool, almost conversational turn at lead vocal-ruminating on the “oxymoron of our lives,” considering the ways the past stakes out territory in the present.
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After a few days spent reshuffling her lyrics, the song’s form took shape. With Drew otherwise indisposed, a restless Brendan Canning stumbled into a bassline, guitarist Andrew Whiteman found a rhythm, and Feist, notebook in hand, grabbed a mic.
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According to Leslie Feist, “Thunder” came together in a quiet moment, while Kevin Drew caught some z’s on a studio couch.