CITY SLANG
A reignited fondness for live performance and a desire to deliver celebratory music during dark times have curtailed a lengthy hiatus for this unorthodox band. Broken Social Scene’s 15-strong personnel still possess their tendency to traverse genres and textures, sounding like Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Big Star and Christine And The Queens, among others, across the 12 largely exhilarating tracks of Hug Of Thunder.