睽違七年，加拿大超級後搖滾團Broken Social Scene的第五張新專輯《Hug of Thunder》，15位樂手參與，包括原明星陣容Emily Haines、Amy Millan、Metric的Jimmy Shaw、Stars的Evan Cranley和Do Make Say Think的Benchetrit等人。
2017新專輯從Sol Luna 溫柔開場，緊接一聲打入大地的閃電般叫喊，就此展開長達12曲的旅程，在<>中，或以充滿活力歡騰的音樂進行，激烈的鼓點配上齊聲合唱，搭配現代社會無奈與憤怒的歌詞，或以扭曲的電子樂器，唱出最親密的私語，不論是北國靜謐森林與煙霧繚繞的Skyline，或是帶著工業聲響與晦暗混亂的Vanity Pail Kids，到Tower of Mansons迷霧呢喃、冰晶般的電子聲響，這張專輯都給予了跨幅而巨大的內容與想像，在不可預期的情節進展裡，Broken Social Scene在落地與向上的繚繞擴展中，找到了衝突與和諧、愛與失望間的完美平衡。
Hug Of Thunder marks the fifth studio album from Canadian alt-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene, their first in seven years. Founded in 99 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, the new album features 15 players including original members Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars, Charles Spearin and Ohad Benchetrit of Do Make Say Think, and Grammy-nominated Leslie Feist.
Hug Of Thunder is everything BSS fans love from the Canadian collective and then some, an album overflowing with glorious open chords, multi-voice harmonies, spacious psychedelia- tinted breakdowns, and more. It is a panoramic, expansive album that manages to be both epic and intimate; and like all things BSS, in troubled times, it offers a serotonin rush of positivity. Since their inception in the early Aughts, BSS have always pushed sonic boundaries while remaining reverent of a perfect chorus; almost twenty years down the line, Hug Of Thunder sharpens that balance and then some. The record s twelve songs refract the band s varying emotions, methods, and techniques in ways that not only reference their other albums, but surpass them. Hug Oo Thunder is righteous but warm, angry but loving, melodic but uncompromising. And if you ve ever fallen in love with Broken Social Scene - as many of us have - it is a perfect return that was truly worth the wait.
First 500 run vinyl featured coke bottle clear vinyl (sold out), 140g double-LP still available, gatefold jacket (matte UV), printed vinyl sleeves (matte UV), and a 28 page booklet with stitched spine affixed to jacket. Artwork layout and design by two-time JUNO Award-winner (and Broken Social Scene s drummer) Justin Peroff and kimikimo. LP includes the vinyl-only bonus track "Old Dead Young".
Tracklist:
1. Sol Luna
2. Halfway Home
3. Protest Song
4. Skyline
5. Stay Happy
6. Vanity Pail Kids
7. Hug Of Thunder
8. Towers and Masons
9. Victim Lover
10. Please Take Me With You
11. Gonna Get Better
12. Mouth Guards of The Apocalypse
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