Remember The Humans - Cream Colored Vinyl

"Remember The Humans" is their first new studio album in almost a decade and reunites the Toronto collective with producer David Newfeld, who was already responsible for their breakthrough "You Forgot It in People" (2002) and the self-titled album from 2005. The arrangements on the 12 tracks are dense and enveloping - a mesh of horns, guitars, voices and electronics - but the melody always remains confident and does not allow itself to be swallowed up by the sheer sound. When the music drifts towards abstraction, a grounding bass line comes in to anchor the listener, always reminding us that human hands are at the controls and that, artful as it may be, this is still rock'n'roll. As always, Broken Social Scene operates less as a band than a community, and the songs evolve by ceding control to whoever can best drive them forward at the time. Drew may be the designated driver, but the contributors on Remember the Humans, including Hannah Georgas, Lisa Lobsinger and Feist, come to the fore again and again over the course of the album, shaping the songs with a sense of collective authorship that has always defined the group's ethos. In a culture characterized by abstraction and distance, Broken Social Scene have created an album that insists on the analog fact of human presence. It gently but insistently asks us to remember each other, to remember the human. Broken Social Scene have announced the release of their new album "Remember the Humans" via City Slang / Arts & Crafts. With contributions from Feist, Lisa Lobsinger, Hannah Georgas and others.