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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.

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.

“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. 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 Click the photos to scroll through them big.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. It felt more like we were sitting in on a rehearsal in someone’s living room than a concert in Hollywood - in a very good way. There was a palpable comfort emanating from the crowded stage. Banter, talking amongst each other on stage, cracking jokes while tuning guitars it was all casual. Urgent percussion fueled the crowd all set long, and fierce loyalty to the band’s past catalog helped push them through lulls during new tracks. As La Force vocalist Ariel Engle took the role as lead female vocals for the show, it was an opportune time to cover La Force’s “TBT”.

“Skyline” and “Protest Song” off Hug of Thunder were played along with the album’s title track. The atmosphere turned sultry for “Sweetest Kill” off Forgiveness Rock Record. 2005’s self-titled LP was represented by '7/4 (Shoreline),' “Hotel,” and the combustive “Superconnected” and “Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)”. Samplings from You Forgot It In People included “Pacific Theme” (the opener of the set), “Cause = Time,” and 'Lover’s Spit” (the final song of the evening).

2) were cushioned by classic tracks off older albums. Songs off Broken Social Scene’s latest pair of EPs Let’s Try The After (Vol. Twenty years deep in the game, their unfaltering live performance was evidence these guys don’t show any signs of slowing down. Wednesday’s iteration of the amorphous Canadian musical collective featured various makeups of eleven musicians. The first of three nights in Los Angeles, Broken Social Scene consumed patrons of The Fonda with their grand orchestrations.

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