Breaking: Broken Social Scene’s First Album in 9 Years Dives Back into Human Chaos
Broken Social Scene returns after nine years with *Happiness*, their first album since *Forgiveness Music* (2017). The Canadian collective—known for its loose, collaborative ethos—delves into human chaos with 12 tracks featuring Kevin Drew, Emily Haines, and 20+ contributors. Its raw, genre-blurring sound reasserts their relevance amid today’s fragmented indie landscape, proving collective creativity still thrives outside tidy band formulas.
Canadian collective Broken Social Scene have always been a funny answer to the classical idea of a band. The classical idea being a tight group of individuals who churn out songs with everyone playing their specific part of their designated instrument. And maybe attempt to look cool on stage doing just that. Founding member Brendan Canning already tried his hand at this archaic paradigm in the wake of the alternative rock boom Powered by MTV, to not much avail.