Broken Social Scene are releasing a new album, the name shall rename a mystery for now, but the album will arrive on the 4th of May on their long-time label Arts and Crafts label. This time around Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman (also of Apostle of Hustle), Charles Spearin, Sam Goldberg, and Reverie Sound Revue vocalist Lisa Lobsinger are the designers of sound. The album was produced by John McEntire of Tortoise and Doug McCombs. Of course there will be a ton of musical guests on the album, like Feist, Stars’ Amy Millan and Evan Cranley, and Metric’s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw, Jason Collett, Do Make Say Think’s Ohad Benchetrit, John Crossingham, Marty Kinack, Julie Penner, Leon Kingstone, Sea and Cake’s Sam Prekop, Pavement’s Spiral Stairs, Death From Above 1979‘s Sebastien Grainger, Poi Dog Pondering’s Susan Voelz, Helen Money’s Alison Chesley and The Weakerthans’ Jason Tait.
Tour Dates announced:
| 5/1 | San Francisco, CA | The Fillmore |
| 5/3 | Los Angeles, CA | Henry Fonda Theatre |
| 5/7 | New York, NY | Webster Hall |
| 5/13 | London, UK | Brixton Academy |
| 5/14 | Minehead, UK | All Tomorrow’s Parties |
| 5/17 | London, UK | Heaven |
| 5/18 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Melkweg |
| 5/19 | Cologne, Germany | Burgerhaus Stollwerck |
| 5/21 | Paris, France | La Maroquinerie |
| 6/19 | Toronto, ON | Toronto Island Concert |
