![]() You can never be too old for that sort of thing, and never too young, either. “You said survive.” It is the sound of growing old and doing some shit. “You said we’re halfway home,” goes the first monster chorus on Hug of Thunder. But Broken Social Scene have that effect on people: a paralyzing nostalgia for 30 seconds ago, a cautious but infectious optimism about what’s coming 10 years from now. It drives you crazy, listening to extremely young people agonize about the aging process. ![]() Bonus fun fact: Lorde was 16 years old when it came out. But the real action’s in the chorus, which is as startled and lackadaisical as the rest of the song, but stumbles across something approaching wizened grace:Įleven years later, on “Ribs,” a gorgeously morose deep cut from her debut album, Pure Heroine, Lorde paid tribute to some crucial makeout music from her, uh, youth, beginning thus:įun fact: “Ribs” is the best song on Pure Heroine. If that ain’t explicit enough for you, the second verse adds the line, “Swallowing words while giving head.” Maybe stage-cough real loud during that part, if you’re listening to this with your mother. From the onset, singer and nominal frontman Kevin Drew had a talent for making the vague sound devastatingly specific, the prurient sound profound: “Lover’s Spit” was You Forgot It in People’s apex, a woozy and pornographic piano jam about the sobering allure of young, drunken lust. ![]() But go back to the old stuff first, if only to connect with their younger selves, and maybe your younger self while you’re at it. It’s lovely, and rousing, and extremely well named. They have a new album, Hug of Thunder, out Friday - their first in seven years. They’d be one of those winningly pompous “more onstage guitarists than crowd members” propositions, were it not for their 2002 breakthrough album You Forgot It in People, which did wonders for their average crowd size. Broken Social Scene are a Toronto-based collective comprising anywhere from six to 600 people. ![]()
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