Broken Social Scene have started streaming their first album in seven years, Hug of Thunder on NPR. Listen to it here. The record comes after 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record and is set to be officially out Friday via City Slang/Arts & Crafts. Leading up to the LP, the band shared songs including “Skyline,” “Halfway Home,” and the title track and they performed a number of new tracks on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic.”
1. Name for You – the Shins
2. Sleep Apnea – Beach Fossils
3. Let Down – Bored Nothing
4. 17 – Youth Lagoon
5. Paul – Big Thief
6. Rituals – Pill Friends
7. Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl – Broken Social Scene
8. Mood – Porches
9. Nobody’s Baby – The Sweater I Gave You
10. Swing Lo Magellan – Dirty Projectors
11. Radical – It Looks Sad.
12. White Gloves – Khruangbin
13. Katy Song – Red House Painters
14. Little Fang – Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks
15. Spoiled – Infinity Crush
16. Told Ya So – Adult Mom
17. Gloomy Planets – The Notwist
18. Goddess On A Hiway – Mercury Rev
19. Black Rice – Women
20. Sandy – Jackson Scott
Broken Social Scene have been working on the follow-up to 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record. The Canadian band performed a new song called “Gonna Get Better” at their show in Chicago Thursday, and last night at Pitchfork Music Festival again. Watch professional-quality footage of their performance below.
1. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) – Arcade Fire
2. Under the Texas Sky – Ferraby Lionheart
3. X’s On Your Eyes – Nightmare and the Cat
4. 2 Atoms in A Molecule – Noah and the Whale
5. New Slang – the Shins
6. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Vampire Weekend
7. Mississippi Isabel – King Charles
8. Can’t Stop Now – Keane
9. Acts of Man – Frightened Rabbit
10. Relax, Take it Easy – MIKA
11. Thieves & Kings – the Peach Kings
12. Light Out – Javelin
13. Lovers -Brothertiger
14. Silver Screen – Beat Connection
15. I Wanna Go – Summer Heart
16. Corvette Cassette – Slow Magic
17. Tonight – Tourist
18. Lover’s Spit – Broken Social Scene
19. The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
20. Walking – The Dodos
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