{"id":27394,"date":"2017-05-31T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27394"},"modified":"2017-06-01T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:29:21","slug":"song-of-the-week-listen-to-broken-social-scenes-incantatory-anthem-skyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-05\/song-of-the-week-listen-to-broken-social-scenes-incantatory-anthem-skyline\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week&#8211;Listen to Broken Social Scene&#8217;s Incantatory Anthem &#8220;Skyline&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSSKY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSSKY-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSSKY-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSSKY-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSSKY-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSSKY-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BSSSKY.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brokensocialscene.ca\/\"><strong>Broken Social Scene<\/strong><\/a> has built its distinguished discography on incantatory anthems in which elliptical mantras are meshed with inspirational music and humanizing vocals that can simply take you into the sky (see <em><strong>Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl, 7\/4 (Shoreline), World Sick<\/strong><\/em>, etc.). And no matter how cryptic the cant, you nonetheless &#8220;get it&#8221; in these anthems. As the Jamaicans say: &#8216;dem who feels it, knows it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today the band has gifted us yet another mantra-laden beauty in new song <em><strong>Skyline<\/strong><\/em>, which reruns these lyrics to the song&#8217;s powerful ending: &#8220;Skyline waits for the world\/ skyline waits for the fall\/ But you shouldn&#8217;t have come at all\/ Because I know\/ You&#8217;re never gonna be, no you&#8217;re never gonna be that word\/You shouldn&#8217;t have come at all.&#8221; Propelling the words are drums, horns and pointed and pointillist guitar to go with <strong>Kevin Drew&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0multi-tracked vocals (abetted by <strong>Feist)<\/strong>. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Skyline<\/strong><\/em> is the third song revealed off of the band&#8217;s upcoming album <em><strong>Hug of Thunder<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(to be released on July 7th), adding to the album&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-05\/broken-social-scenes-hug-of-thunder-the-second-highly-anticipated-album-of-2017-featuring-feist\/\"><strong>Feistian<\/strong> <strong>title track<\/strong><\/a> and another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-04\/song-of-the-week-broken-social-scenes-halfway-home\/\"><strong>Song of the Week<\/strong>,\u00a0<em><strong>Halfway Home<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not a Spotifyer, then go <a href=\"https:\/\/bss.lnk.to\/hugofthunderPR\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> to otherwise stream <em><strong>Skyline<\/strong><\/em> or pre-order <em><strong>Hug of Thunder<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0<strong>Norman Wong<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/64gpPzmOLyAwyHL2Lm1WLL\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken Social Scene has built its distinguished discography on incantatory anthems in which elliptical mantras are meshed with inspirational music and humanizing vocals that can simply take you into the sky (see Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl, 7\/4 (Shoreline), World Sick, etc.). And no matter how cryptic the cant, you nonetheless &#8220;get it&#8221; [&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-27394","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\/27394","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=27394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27412,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27394\/revisions\/27412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}