{"id":27090,"date":"2017-04-02T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27090"},"modified":"2017-04-02T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:32:11","slug":"song-of-the-week-broken-social-scenes-halfway-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-04\/song-of-the-week-broken-social-scenes-halfway-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: Broken Social Scene&#8217;s &#8220;Halfway Home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsshalfwayhome-1490893250-compressed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsshalfwayhome-1490893250-compressed-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsshalfwayhome-1490893250-compressed-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsshalfwayhome-1490893250-compressed-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsshalfwayhome-1490893250-compressed-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bsshalfwayhome-1490893250-compressed.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can go weeks without finding a new song that stands as our <strong>Song of the Week<\/strong>. But at other times it couldn&#8217;t be any easier. Take this week for example. <a href=\"http:\/\/brokensocialscene.ca\/\"><strong>Broken Social Scene<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0delivered a masterful new song entitled <em><strong>Halfway Home<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0from their first new album (release date unknown) in seven years. The song is a quintessential <strong>BSS<\/strong> anthem, but the band doesn&#8217;t just sit on their laurels here. They&#8217;ve elevated their songwriting, performing and production games to new levels.\u00a0<em><strong>Halfway Home\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is easily our <strong>Song of the Week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As leader <strong>Kevin Drew<\/strong> says at the song&#8217;s outset: &#8220;Turn it up!&#8221;\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aGxERK4clw4\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can go weeks without finding a new song that stands as our Song of the Week. But at other times it couldn&#8217;t be any easier. Take this week for example. Broken Social Scene\u00a0delivered a masterful new song entitled Halfway Home\u00a0from their first new album (release date unknown) in seven years. The song is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27093,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27090\/revisions\/27093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}