Broken Social Scene are releasing a new EP April 13, Let’s Try the After - Vol. 2. As the name suggests, it’s the second EP in a series, following February’s Vol. 1.
A couple of weeks ago, they shared one of the EP’s four tracks “Can’t Find My Heart” and today they’re following that up with “Big Couches.” The auto-tuned track comes courtesy of Adult Swim’s Singles Series.
Frontman Kevin Drew previously stated this about the new 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."
Both volumes of Let’s Try the After are being packaged together for a combined release for this year’s Record Store Day on April 13. The Canadian collective’s last full-length was 2017’s Hug of Thunder. Catch them at one of the two dates they’ll be playing at the Neptune Theatre on Monday, July 29 and Tuesday, July 30.
Below, listen to “Big Couches” and watch Broken Social Scene’s 2017 KEXP in-studio performance.
It's the Canadian collective's second EP of 2019
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."
