Perhaps realising what they nearly threw away, this is simply the sound of a band having the time of their lives. A man walks down the highway as the song plays. People gather in sharing circle and talk. The music video opens with text offering tips of survival. Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder released J 9/10 Broken Social Scene are a Canadian indie rock band (yay for Canadian content) formed by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Broken Social Scene performs in the music video 'Skyline' from the album 'Hug Of Thunder' recorded for Arts and Crafts Records. Every once and a while, we all need a hug. The highlight is the Leslie Feist-led title track – a Rubik’s cube of a subtle pop song, with mighty hooks unfolding through complex yet thoroughly rewarding logic – but in truth there’s nothing you’d call a low point. Broken Social Scene: Skyline: With Broken Social Scene. Hug of Thunder ploughs through emotional highs and lows with an empathetic grace, sometimes decorating its more dramatic moments with swells of brass, ditto its out-and-out rock’n’roll cuts elsewhere they just let everything hang loose on a light robo-funk groove. The Canadian collective can switch seamlessly between a rolling crash of noise and sparse intimacy, often within the same breath. More than with any of the band’s previous LPs, this is a collection of Proper Pop Songs, and many of them are utterly tremendous: the opening double whammy of Halfway Home and Protest Song is as strident a pair of anthems as they’ve ever written, with choruses exuding the confident swagger of a band that’s aiming beyond the stratosphere. Rarely do album names manage to sum up a sound as aptly as Hug of Thunder does for Broken Social Scene. In the seven years since the Toronto indie-rock collective’s last album, the trajectory of our national discourse would seem to support Drew’s cynical worldview.
Ostensible frontman Kevin Drew was apparently inspired to bring some positivity into the world by the horror of the 2015 Paris attacks, and duly the record comes on like the warmest of family reunions. When he looks at the state of the world today, Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew sees a crumbling society that keeps getting worse.
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