Toronto’s Broken Social Scene have shared “Skyline,” the new single from their upcoming album Hug of Thunder, out on Arts & Crafts on July 7th, 2017. More festival appearances followed in 20, and in March 2017 they issued "Halfway Home," the first single from their much-anticipated sixth studio album, Hug of Thunder, which notably featured both Feist and Haines returning for vocal duties.Formats: Triple A, College, AAA, Non-Commercial, NPR The band officially went on hiatus shortly after completing its tour in support of the album, but did make an appearance headlining the 2013 Field Trip Arts & Crafts Music Festival, which celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Arts & Crafts label. The group's fifth full-length offering, Forgiveness Rock Record, arrived in May 2010, and hit number one on the Canadian albums chart, and peaked at 34 on the Billboard 200.
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In 2007, Kevin Drew released the first installment in a series of "Broken Social Scene Presents" solo outings called Spirit If., followed in 2008 by Brendan Canning's Something for All of Us., both of which featured appearances from nearly all the other members of the band.
A joint North American tour with Feist followed its release. Additional contributions by select members of Stars, Metric, Do Make Say Think, Raising the Fawn, the Dears, and others contributed to the ambitious sounds of Broken Social Scene. For the band's 2005 self-titled studio album, Broken Social Scene once again joined up with producer David Newfeld. In order to maintain praise from critics, the band issued its first ever B-sides and rarities collection, Bee Hives, in spring 2004.
A surprise, however, coincided with those plans in spring 2003 when Broken Social Scene won a Juno for Alternative Album of the Year for You Forgot It in People. You Forgot It in People was a buzz among indie cohorts, and plans for a stateside release on Arts & Crafts was slated for the following summer. Jason Collett, Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff, and Leslie Feist fulfilled the band's bombastic, orchestrated sound, and critics loved it. By the time their guitar-fueled sophomore effort, You Forgot It in People, was released in fall 2002, Broken Social Scene had become an 11-piece collective. Drew's fellow mate from Do Make Say Think, Charles Spearin, was added to the band, as well as Evan Cranley (Stars), James Shaw, and Emily Haines (Metric). Feel Good Lost marked their debut album in 2001 and introduced a revolving cast of Canadian indie musicians. They spent the next few years honing an atmospheric rock sound in their native Toronto, and the dynamic was great.
Accidental's Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, formerly of By Divine Right, bonded their friendship by forming a band. 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 all-encompassing, from the silvery ambience of “Sol Luna” to the climactic “Mouth Guards of the Apocalypse,” where founder Kevin Drew wails, “I'm trying for the living, and I'm staying so I can leave.”īroken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. The shape-shifting indie rock collective Broken Social Scene has never been much for understatement - even the band’s interludes feel like they’re about to burst into confetti.