So, as the band went into another song, I turned to my friends and was like, “Yeah, I need to get going.” Touting a lengthy setlist, the band continued to play late into the night, and there became a point when I started to get a little anxious about the time-I had to get up early for a meeting of some sort the next morning. In my mid-20s then, I had not been one to wear earplugs to concerts (that has since changed) and this show goes down in my memory as one of the most obnoxiously loud I’ve been to-I seem to recall my ears ringing for days afterward. Eventually, as the evening grew later, a slimmed down arrangement of Broken Social Scene took the stage, launching into the surprising one-two punch of “Late Nineties Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries” and “Shampoo Suicide.” Land of Talk was the supporting act, and their blistering (albeit short) live set made me a believer-one of the rare times that I was pleased with an opening band. Again, the band was playing at First Avenue, in Minneapolis this time, I went with a group of friends.
The second, and final time, that I tried to see Broken Social Scene live was almost exactly three years later, when the band was on the road behind one of their short-lived Broken Social Scene presents… efforts-this time, it was Brendan Canning’s LP, Something For All of Us. I was disappointed, sure-this was in a time when I was unaware of how crippling my concert anxiety would grow-but I understood that we needed to be moving along. I feel like we probably made it through about a third of Broken Social Scene’s set, maybe a little more, when my wife started feeling ill-that’s what First Ave’ll do to you (it’s not the only time this has happened to her.) So, in the short amount of space between songs, we decided to leave. We arrived late-derailed by an afternoon trip to the Mall of America (we were so young back then, so this was still a fun place to go), and also, I had never driven in Minneapolis before, so I had no idea where we were going or how best to calmly handle “big city traffic.” A pre- Reminder Leslie Feist was opening, and we wandered in as she was finishing up. She was finishing up her final year in college, and I was coming up for the weekend to visit.Īs fate would have it, I learned that Broken Social Scene were playing at First Avenue that same weekend, so I impulsively bought tickets for the show-one of many times early in our relationship where I was like, “Hey honey, let’s go to this thing you don’t give a shit about at all.” This was back when I was living in Dubuque, Iowa, and my wife and I were simply just courting. The first time I tried to see the band was in 2005, when they were touring in support of their self-titled release. © 2017 Arts & Crafts Productions Inc.Somewhere, Broken Social Scene is still playing live. Track Numberĭuration: 52:21 Genres: Alternative ℗ 2017 Arts & Crafts Productions Inc. As ever, the Canadian collective prove themselves one of very few bands capable of creating lush indie-pop that’s at once hopeful and melancholic, sweeping and strangely intimate.
Quite the contrary: listening to Hug Of Thunder is the aural equivalent of the comforting embrace of an old friend.
That doesn’t make the arrival of this comeback album feel any less sweet, however. Hell, Fleet Foxes took almost as long to release new material and they’ve nothing like BSS’ excuse.
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7digital What we said: In light of the fact their component parts include Feist and Kevin Drew, plus members of Metric and Stars, we’ll forgive Broken Social Scene for waiting seven years to deliver the follow-up to Forgiveness Rock Record.
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