Broken Social Scene have announced a new EP, their second of 2019. Titled Let’s Try the After - Vol. 2, it follows last month’s Vol. 1 and 2017’s full-length Hug of Thunder. Due for release April 13 via Arts & Crafts, the EP consists of four tracks including the single released today, “Can’t Find My Heart.”
It’s actually not the first time we’ve heard the song. Back in January, the Canadian collective stopped by The Strombo Show to play an intimate basement set that included the previously-unheard “Can’t Find My Heart.” Frontman Kevin Drew says this about the forthcoming EP:
The theme is to continue. Sickness, suicide, uprise, love, death, betrayal, hurt, joy, sex, communication, battles and divisions… Let’s just get to their after and start building again. How do we do it within the isolation of self prescribe empty popularity? How does the ego revolt? How does the heart win? Can it? Maybe after we will find out.
Let’s Try The After Volumes 1 & 2 will be packaged together as a combined release for Record Store Day on April 13. Broken Social Scene are playing two dates at the Neptune Theatre on Monday, July 29 and Tuesday, July 30.
Below, listen to “Can’t Find My Heart” and watch Broken Social Scene’s 2017 KEXP in-studio performance.
The five-track EP Let’s Try the After - Vol. 1 will be out February 15
Alongside the two new songs, “Can’t Find My Heart” and “1972,” the band cover "Total Eclipse of the Heart."
Broken Social Scene’s second night at the Neptune Theatre last Monday was an absolute lovefest. The Canadian indie rock vets rocked, grooved, and, later, hugged it with a sold-out crowd during their celebratory two-hour set. Beginning the night with the driving, post-rock blast of “KC Accidental,” …
