broken social scene hug of thunder review

With the exception of their understated and mostly instrumental 2001 debut Feel Good Lost, Broken Social Scene have always been a bombastic band, a. Sometimes all this bluster is needed to paper over middling songcraft and rudderless segues, but for the most part the writing is on point: Vanity Pail Kids rides into battle with dive-bombing saxes and a huge tom-tom tattoo Halfway Home channels Bruce Springsteen’s interstate energy and Feist gives the title track the kind of wistfulness that avoids twee. It’s exhilarating, but it’s a lot to take in. SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: REUBEN AND THE DARK - IN LIEU OF LIGHT. Broken Social Scene pulls out all stops for Hug of Thunder, reuniting all 15 original members of the band. Loved You a Little The Maine, Taking Back Sunday and Charlotte Sands. Showcasing the Best New Music, Curating the Classics. It’s the record Broken Social Scene have always had within them, but perhaps never quite achieved. After seven long years, the critically acclaimed Broken Social Scene return with a pleasant album which reminds us of their charms. The drums in particular have an intense and compressed pop sound which drives the music forward. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE RELEASE HUG OF THUNDER TRACK OLD DEAD YOUNG PREVIOUSLY ONLY AVAILABLE. Which means that Hug of Thunder has to be awfully, awfully good to compete with people’s memories of You Forgot It In People or Forgiveness Rock Record. With members like Feist and Emily Haines back in the fold for the band’s first album in seven years, every song is big, anthemic and emotionally invigorating, with the jazzy breakbeats in the rhythm section keeping them endearingly dog-eared rather than pompous. It is snipped and punchy compared with previous records. W ith 15 members and a rickety yet ambitious sound, Broken Social Scene have the feel of a Merry Pranksters-style hippie cult, and their shared values and sense of community prove bracing in an age of Trumpian individualism.

Broken social scene hug of thunder review