After nearly a decade Broken Social Scene will return with a new album, Remember The Humans, on May 8 via Arts & Crafts. The LP finds the Toronto band reuniting with producer David Newfeld, who helmed their breakthrough You Forgot It in People (2002) and self-titled (2005) albums. Today, the band shares “The Call,” the last single before the release of the LP, and a sprawling collective of voices and instrumentation. The lyrics come in fragments – overlapping lines, shared refrains – converging into one urgent imperative: ‘let me hear the call/’we’re going’/either restless or reborn, we’re going.’ Led by Andrew Whiteman’s enigmatic pen, the track commands forward movement without certainty, commands action rooted in instinct.
In its sense of communal momentum, the track is the sound of individuals dissolving into something bigger than themselves; Broken Social Scene’s long-practiced alchemy at work. But while other tracks on Remember The Humans are more cerebral, “The Call” is anatomical, carrying with it a sense of animal urgency: it is breath and pulse, sweat and nerves.
