![]() ![]() Here on lead single “Halfway Home”, the album’s closest analogue, the key refrain is “If you never run, how they gonna catch you alive?” The band still comes in with crashing waves, but the fear and paranoia that have always been present in their music rises as the urgency wanes. Recall “7/4 (Shoreline)”, where they stood together to face the oncoming storm. The key difference is that before, the band always exuded a relentless optimism, even in the face of all reason. Like an old group of friends reuniting for drinks and catching up, it’s familiar and free of grand expectations. The result is a large, communal atmosphere, as if they’re all in the same room jamming together. Fortunately, they avoid the stilted awkwardness of Arrested Development season four as nearly every song contains at least half, if not more, of the 19 featured musicians, including Kevin Drew, Leslie Feist, Brendan Canning, Emily Haines, Amy Milan, Andrew Whiteman, and more. With a sprawling family tree that branches into dozens of other bands, assembling everyone appears a daunting task. That comfort comes partly in the sense of hearing the entire band together again. Seven years since their last album, they’ve returned with Hug of Thunder to provide reassurance to a world even more broken than when they last left us. Throughout the 2000s, they stood at the forefront of indie rock bands speaking out against the Bush administration, raging against an insurmountable foe. Though the members of Broken Social Scene aren’t a religious group, their music has always been filled with a cathartic urgency awaiting some sort of reckoning, going back to when they were shouting “It’s All Gonna Break” at the top of their lungs. ![]() Preachers have prognosticated the end of the world as long as recorded history exists. The proverbial question lingers in the air: Now what? After three more instances, she stands alone on the roof sobbing, realizing she was wrong again. When it doesn’t, the pastor announces the date was wrong and reschedules a new Armageddon, but members of her congregation, including the woman’s family, lose faith. Vinyl edition is a 2LP gatefold jacket with 180g black vinyl, all-over matte coated print, plus 20-page lyrics booklet.In the opening to season three of HBO series The Leftovers, a woman in the 1800s climbs her roof to prepare for the end of the world, an apocalyptic flood her church predicted will arrive. It was after the second outing that Gord asked if Bob had music he could write to, leading to Lustre Parfait: the ninth album to bear Downie's name outside the Hip, and the first to bear Rock's. Inspired by their brotherhood under the muse of rock n' roll, their work together began when Bob produced The Tragically Hip's World Container (2006) and We Are The Same (2009). In contrast to the raw intimacy of Downie's posthumous solo releases – 2017's letter-to-loved-ones Introduce Yerself, and 2020's ghostly goodbye Away Is Mine – Lustre Parfait is unabashedly infectious, a gift of unbridled expression from one of Canada's most cherished voices, belting out pristine lyrics from in-the-pocket of a gleaming rock band, relentless, and charged with the unifying forces of poetry and power. Recorded between 20, Rock's Grammy Award-winning flair lights up Downie's peerless lyricism and incendiary heart. Gord Downie, the iconic frontman of The Tragically Hip, and legendary producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Bon Jovi, Motley Crüe, Michael Bublé) combine on a fourteen-song double-album with the newfangled energy of two restless talents in lockstep. More than a decade in the making, Lustre Parfaitis the long-mythologized collaboration of rock n' roll giants. ![]()
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