“Curse Your Fail” features guest vocals from Death From Above 1979’s Sebastien Grainger, but its peaceful tone is nothing like his band’s hard rock. It’s a boozy, lounge-adjacent trip that ends in a chant of “mourir, mourir,” partially explaining the title. “Do the 95” is a rush right off the bat, with a pounding snare drum beat and a chaotic chorus where the band’s most-utilized singer, Kevin Drew, shouts “it’s time!” The 7-plus minute “Death Cock” is both the longest and the oldest song on the album, having been recorded all the way back in 2001. Most of the tracks on Old Dead Young are similarly high-caliber, and you’ll wish you had heard them sooner.
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It’s a great, lively number with a full sound only a band with up to 19 members (yes, really) like Broken Social Scene could produce, and its horn outro makes it a prime closing track. Only Old Dead Young’s title track is from the 2010s, originally a bonus track for vinyl versions of the band’s 2017 album Hug of Thunder.
Second, all but one of the tracks on Old Dead Young are from the 2000s, when the band was receiving the most attention and was at their most prolific. It’s surprisingly cohesive despite this broader scope for two reasons: first, aside from their ambient debut album Feel Good Lost, Broken Social Scene frankly haven’t changed their (consistently high-quality) sound much. While Bee Hives collected outtakes and extras from Broken Social Scene’s 2002 breakthrough album You Forgot it in People, Old Dead Young features tracks stretching from 2001 to 2016. The band must have taken a cue from my writings, because they have now released their second B-side compilation, Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities. They released Bee Hives back in 2004, which I even included in the title image of that linked article. On this front, Broken Social Scene had already delivered once. We want to.If you’re an already-established Broken Social Scene fan, Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities is essential listeningĪround a year ago, I wrote about why more bands should release B-side compilations, or albums that gather obscure and lesser-heard tracks in one convenient format. Everyone sort of got on the phone within the small tribe of us and said, I want to play some shows.” He added, “We have to get back out there. You can also stream 30-second snippets of each track here.Īs previously reported, Broken Social Scene decided to regroup following the Paris terror attacks in 2015, a tragedy that really hit “so close to home,” frontman Kevin Drew explained in an interview late last year. “The whole reason we got back together was after the shootings in Paris.
Check out the full tracklist, along with the album’s artwork, below. The tracklist boasts several amazing titles, including “Vanity Pail Kids”, “Mouth Guards of the Apocalypse”, and “Stay Happy”. Though an official announcement is still forthcoming, details of the album have now surfaced via The Music.Today.Įntitled Hug of Thunder, the 12-track LP is due out on July 7th. The track, which marked the band’s first new recording in seven years, also served as the first taste of a new album due out later in the year. Back in March, Broken Social Scene debuted a new single called “Halfway Home”, which they subsequently performed live during an appearance on Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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