Damaged Social Scene have introduced a brand new covers album that celebrates their 2003 breakout full-length, You Forgot It in Individuals. Out June 6, by way of Arts & Crafts, Anthems: A Celebration of Damaged Social Scene’s You Forgot It in Individuals invitations over a dozen artists—together with Toro y Moi, Mdou Moctar, the Climate Station, and extra—to reimagine a track from the LP. First up is Maggie Rogers and Sylvan Esso’s joint tackle “Anthems for a Seventeen Yr-Previous Woman,” which you’ll take heed to beneath.
“‘Anthems’ is a kind of songs that essentially modified my life,” Rogers stated in an announcement. “There’s one thing in regards to the lyrical repetition that capabilities as a type of mantra inside the track and it made me perceive at a really early level in my inventive life that music may very well be a type of meditation. Damaged Social Scene has lengthy been one in every of my all-time favourite bands and overlaying it with my expensive buddies Nick and Amelia from Sylvan Esso was an absolute pleasure beam dream.”
Sylvan Esso added, “It was a pleasure to cowl this stunning track with Maggie—all of us grew up loving this report—to be requested to cowl ’Anthems…’ collectively was an honor and led to a very beautiful time.”
On the twentieth anniversary of You Forgot It in Individuals, Damaged Social Scene as soon as once more carried out the album in full on a North American tour. Throughout a kind of exhibits, the lengthy checklist of people that’ve coated “Anthems for a Seventeen Yr-Previous Woman” expanded to incorporate Meryl Streep and Tracey Ullman, who joined the Toronto indie-rock band onstage in New York to sing alongside.
Final yr, the brand new documentary It’s All Gonna Break, directed by Stephen Chung, premiered at Woodstock Movie Competition. Drawing its title from the closing monitor on their self-titled album, the movie paperwork the early years of Damaged Social Scene and the creation of their first three albums.
Revisit Ryan Dombal’s interview “Damaged Social Scene Are (By some means) Nonetheless Pals After All These Years.”
