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 tune from the LP. First up is Maggie Rogers and Sylvan Esso’s joint tackle “Anthems for a Seventeen Yr-Outdated Lady,” which you’ll be able to take heed to under.
“‘Anthems’ is a type of songs that essentially modified my life,” Rogers mentioned in an announcement. “There’s one thing in regards to the lyrical repetition that features as a kind of mantra throughout the tune and it made me perceive at a really early level in my artistic life that music might be a type of meditation. Damaged Social Scene has lengthy been certainly one of my all-time favourite bands and protecting it with my pricey buddies Nick and Amelia from Sylvan Esso was an absolute pleasure beam dream.”
Sylvan Esso added, “It was a pleasure to cowl this stunning tune 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 Throughout a type of exhibits, the lengthy record of people that’ve coated “Anthems for a Seventeen Yr-Outdated Lady” expanded to incorporate Meryl Streep and Tracey Ullman, who joined the Toronto indie-rock band onstage in New York to sing alongside.
Final 12 months, the brand new documentary It’s All Gonna Break, directed by Stephen Chung, premiered at Woodstock Movie Pageant. 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 (Someway) Nonetheless Mates After All These Years.”
