Many of the most affecting moments in their catalog, however, are quieter.
With the exception of their understated and mostly instrumental 2001 debut Feel Good Lost, Broken Social Scene have always been a bombastic band, a tendency they fully embraced on 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record. It’s exhilarating, but it’s a lot to take in. After a brief ambient introduction, it’s one anthem after another: “Halfway Home,” a superconnected slab of feeling from de facto bandleader Kevin Drew, with too many guitar tracks to count “Protest Song,” an Emily Haines number that makes up for its decidedly non-polemical lyrics with a martial snare drum crescendo that might convince you to join BSS’s revolution even if you don’t know what it’s about and “Skyline,” whose cyclical structure gives it the feeling of a long, triumphant coda to the two songs that came before. For the first several songs on their warm and rewarding comeback album Hug of Thunder, it often sounds as though every member of the familial Toronto ensemble is playing at the same time. Seven years after their previous album, and a decade and half removed from the record that earned their spot in the canon of 2000s indie, Broken Social Scene are back–all 15 of them.
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