SPILL NEWS: BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE REVEAL NEW SINGLE “THE CALL” FROM UPCOMING LP ‘REMEMBER THE HUMANS’

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE REVEAL NEW SINGLE “THE CALL” FROM UPCOMING LP REMEMBER THE HUMANS

ARTS & CRAFTS

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.

Broken Social Scene previously shared “Not Around Anymore” and “Hey Amanda.” They will play songs off Remember The Humans and other fan favorites this summer on the All The Feelings Tour alongside Metric with support from Stars. The tour kicks off June 8 and runs across Canada, Europe, and the UK, with new shows recently added, including a slot at Halifax Jazz Festival on July 11. All dates are listed below, and tickets are available here.

Broken Social Scene helped spark a movement without ever setting out to. Emerging in the early 2000s, they cast a spotlight on their hometown of Toronto and embodied the kind of fearless cross-pollination that would come to define indie rock at its most expansive. Their orbit gave rise to bands, solo projects, and collaborations that shaped a generation – including Feist, Metric, Stars, and Do Make Say Think. More than two decades on, Broken Social Scene remains a galvanizing creative force: a band whose emotional openness, restless experimentation, and communal spirit continue to resonate with fans and influence artists around the world.

Across Remember The Humans’ 12 tracks, the arrangements are dense and enveloping – a lattice of horns, guitars, voices, and electronics – yet melody always remains sovereign, refusing to be swallowed by the sheer sound. When the music drifts towards abstraction, a grounding bass line arrives to anchor the listener, reminding us always that there are human hands on the controls and that, however artful, this is still rock and roll.

Remember the Humans was shaped by reunion and loss in equal measure. When Kevin Drew and Newfeld reconnected after nearly 20 years apart, one hangout became what they call “a hurricane of fun.” During the recording, both lost their mothers – a shared grief that drew them closer. As Newfeld recalls, “our moms would have wanted us to do this, and get it right after 20 years of not working together.”

As ever, Broken Social Scene operates less as a band than as a community, and songs evolve by ceding control to whoever can best carry them forward in the moment. Drew may be the designated driver, but collaborators on Remember the Humans, including Hannah Georgas, Lisa Lobsinger, and Feist, step into the foreground throughout the record, shaping songs with a sense of collective authorship that has always defined the group’s ethos.

The songs work because no one fully commands them. But this is where Newfeld matters most. As Charles Spearin puts it, “his production suits the chaos of our songwriting so well…he’s got a childlike energy that is really contagious.”

The same unruly energy that keeps a band young can also trap it in its own past. Yet on Remember the Humans, Broken Social Scene have evolved with a deep sense of intention. It is the sound of a band deepening rather than reinventing, exploring the emotional implications of forms they’ve spent twenty years shaping. “There’s a different kind of honesty in this record,” says Spearin, “we’ve had success, we’ve lost friends, we’ve lost parents, we’re at this ‘what happens next?’ stage in life.” Remember the Humans is adult music in the best sense: contradictory, wounded, expansive – hopeful in a way that feels earned rather than declared. And it is also, in its refusal of control and its embrace of the ungovernable, a testament to something increasingly rare: art that is not optimized, not streamlined, not strategic.

BSS’s own evolution mirrors something happening outside of it. After years of oversaturation and noise, the culture itself seems to have looped back to a craving for the raw, the communal, and the unguarded. The conditions that made You Forgot It in People feel necessary in 2002 have, in altered form, returned in 2026. According to Drew, “in 2026, you’re going to see a lot of resurgence of people going back to the roots of who they are, because things in their lifetime have gotten quite lost. I think we’ve let each other down, and I think it’s art that always tries to prevail, and tries to get us back on track.”

In a culture defined by abstraction and distance, Broken Social Scene has made a record that insists on the analog fact of human presence. It asks, gently, but insistently, that we remember each other, that we remember the human.

Tour Dates

6/8 – Moody Amphitheater – Austin, TX
6/9 – South Side Ballroom – Dallas, TX
6/11 – Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, CO
6/13 – Sandy Amphitheater – Sandy, UT
6/16 – The Greek Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
6/17 – Arizona Financial Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
6/19 – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre – San Diego, CA
6/21 – The Masonic – San Francisco, CA – SOLD OUT
6/22 – The Masonic – San Francisco, CA
6/24 – Hayden Homes Amphitheater – Bend, OR
6/25 – Chateau Ste. Michelle – Woodinville, WA
6/28 – South Alberta Jubilee Auditorium – Calgary, AB – LOW TICKET WARNING
6/29 – Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium – Edmonton, AB – LOW TICKET WARNING
7/11 – Halifax Jazz Festival – Halifax, NS *
7/24 – Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, IL
7/25 – Fox Theatre – Detroit, MI
7/27 – MGM Music Hall at Fenway – Boston, MA
7/28 – The Met – Philadelphia, PA
7/30 – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY – SOLD OUT
7/31 – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY – LOW TICKET WARNING
8/1 – The Anthem – Washington, DC
8/3 – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA – LOW TICKET WARNING
8/4 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN – LOW TICKET WARNING
8/7 – RBC Amphitheatre – Toronto, ON – LOW TICKET WARNING
9/9 – 3 Olympia Theatre – Dublin, IE
9/11 – O2 Academy Glasgow – Glasgow, UK
9/12 – O2 Academy Brixton – London, UK
9/13 – Manchester Academy – Manchester, UK
9/15 – Salle Pleyel – Paris, FR
9/16 – De Roma – Antwerp, BE
9/17 – TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht, NL
9/19 – Columbiahalle – Berlin, DE
10/3 – Canada Life Place – London, ON
10/5 – The Arena at TD Place – Ottawa, ON
10/7 – Place Bell – Laval, QC

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