Broken Social Scene Share New Single “Hey Amanda” From Upcoming Album “Remember The Humans” out 8th May via City Slang
Announce September UK/EU Tour, including London O2 Brixton Academy show
Canadian legends Broken Social Scene will release their new album Remember The Humans on 8th May via City Slang in the UK and EU / Arts & Crafts in North America. Marking their first new studio album in nearly a decade, the LP reunites the Toronto collective with producer David Newfeld who helmed their breakthrough You Forgot It in People (2002) and self-titled 2005 album. Across the twelve tracks the arrangements are dense and enveloping – a lattice of horns, guitars, voices, and electronics – yet melody always remains sovereign, reminding us always that there are human hands on the controls and that, however artful, this is still rock and roll.
Following lead track “Not Around Anymore”, which had across-the-board coverage in the likes of NME, Clash, The Line Of Best Fit, Our Culture, Stereogum and Rolling Stone, Broken Social Scene have shared infectious new single “Hey Amanda”, an anthemic expression of youthful rebellion through the beautiful punctuation of the sprawling group’s many voices. The track exemplifies the evolution of Broken Social Scene: a band deepening rather than reinventing, exploring the emotional implications of forms they have spent 25 years shaping.
Immediately gripping, immediately emotional, immediately a beautiful Broken Social Scene lasting hit.
In other news, Broken Social Scene have announced news of a special one-off acoustic performance + Q&A at London’s Rough Trade East on Monday 11th May, which sold out within minutes of going on sale. The band will then their bring their “All The Feelings Tour” to the UK & EU in September alongside longtime friends and co-headliners Metric with support from Stars – dates and info below:
Wednesday 9th September – Dublin – 3 Olympia Theatre
Friday 11th September – Glasgow – O2 Academy Glasgow
Saturday 12th September – London – O2 Academy Brixton
Sunday 13th September – Manchester – Manchester Academy
Tuesday 15th September – Paris – Salle Pleyel
Wednesday 16th September – Antwerp – De Roma
Thursday 17th September – Utrecht – TivoliVrendenburg
Saturday 19th September – Berlin – Columbiahalle
Remember the Humans was shaped by reunion and loss in equal measure. When Drew and Newfeld reconnected after nearly 20 years apart, one hangout became what they call “a hurricane of fun”, the kind of energy that demanded musical expression. 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 Lisa Lobsinger, Hannah Georgas, 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 BSS’s Charles Spearin puts it, “his production suits the chaos of our songwriting so well…he’s got a childlike energy that is really contagious, when you get a piece of music that he loves, Oh my God, he’s bouncing like a little boy.”
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 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 have made a record that insists on the analogur fact of human presence. It asks, gently, but insistently, that we remember each other, that we remember the human.
Broken Social Scene have also announced news of a major North American Tour with their friends Metric and Stars. The “All The Feelings Tour” dates kick off June 8th in Austin, TX and conclude August 7th in their hometown of Toronto. Along the way the tour will stop in Los Angeles on June 16th for a show at The Greek Theatre and at Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Paramount on July 30th.
1. Not Around Anymore
2. Only The Good I Keep
3. Mission Accomplished (Kingfisher)
4. The Call
5. Relief
6. And I Think Of You
7. This Briefest Kiss
8. Life Within The Ground
9. Hey Amanda
10. Paying For Your Love
11. What Happens Now
12. Parking Lot Dreams
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