{"id":484271,"date":"2019-04-04T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=817559"},"modified":"2019-04-04T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:48:10","slug":"hear-broken-social-scenes-eclectic-new-song-big-couches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-broken-social-scenes-eclectic-new-song-big-couches\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Broken Social Scene\u2019s Eclectic New Song \u2018Big Couches\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/98_Broken-Social-Scene_OtherImages1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/broken-social-scene\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broken-social-scene\" data-tag=\"broken-social-scene\">Broken Social Scene<\/a> has released \u201cBig Couches,\u201d the second track off the band\u2019s upcoming EP <em>Let\u2019s Try the After<\/em>&nbsp;<em>\u2013 Vol. 2.<\/em> The musicians previously released <a href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/watch?v=2xlD-F7Gb38\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">single<\/a> \u201cCan\u2019t Find My Heart,\u201d a swirling indie rock number, which will also appear on the upcoming EP. The new song was released as the 33rd installment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adultswim.com\/music\/singles-2018\/33\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Adult Swim Singles<\/a> program ahead of the EP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Couches\u201d distorts the band\u2019s signature indie sound with Auto-Tuned vocal effects, but stays in line with their usual propulsive beats, shimmering guitar riffs and surging choruses, all of which are presented in an experimental package.<\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s Try the After<\/em>&nbsp;<em>\u2013 Vol. 2,<\/em> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/broken-social-scene-new-song-all-i-want-782467\/\">second part<\/a> of a pair,&nbsp;will be released April 12 via Arts &amp; Crafts Records. Both editions of <em>Let\u2019s Try The After<\/em> will be packaged together as a combined release in honor of Record Store Day, which takes place April 13.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.2188841201717\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Listen to our new tune &#8220;Big Couches&#8221; now on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adultswim?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@adultswim<\/a> Singles Club before it lands on &#8216;Let&#8217;s Try The After \u2013 Vol 2&#8217; on April 12th!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TNmVpjKXUN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/TNmVpjKXUN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WNtFqdwmoY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WNtFqdwmoY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Broken Social Scene (@bssmusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bssmusic\/status\/1113496284814610433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Broken Social Scene co-founded Kevin Drew said of the new music, \u201cThe theme is to continue. Sickness, suicide, uprise, love, death, betrayal, hurt, joy, sex, communication, battles and &nbsp;divisions. Let\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Broken Social Scene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/broken-social-scene-valentines-day-song-boyfriends-794760\/\">released<\/a> a Valentine\u2019s Day single called \u201cBoyfriends.\u201d The band will tour North America this spring, with dates in Toronto, New York, Montreal, Los Angeles and Seattle, before heading to Europe for a summer run.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-broken-social-scene-eclectic-song-big-couches-817559\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken Social Scene has released \u201cBig Couches,\u201d the second track off the band\u2019s upcoming EP Let\u2019s Try the After&nbsp;\u2013 Vol. 2. The musicians previously released single \u201cCan\u2019t Find My Heart,\u201d a swirling indie rock number, which will also appear on the upcoming EP. The new song was released as the 33rd installment of the Adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 13:57:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}