Pitchfork reviews Broken Social Scene’s Remember the Humans

Broken Social Scene’s Remember the Humans received fresh critical attention on 13 May, with Pitchfork reviewing the Toronto collective’s first studio album in nearly nine years. The record had already landed on 8 May via Arts & Crafts, but the 13 May review gives the album another strong news hook for indie readers.

What makes Remember the Humans interesting is that it does not try to rebuild You Forgot It in People by force. Instead, it leans into the band’s older strengths in a more patient form: friendship, large-group chemistry, instrumental drift, emotional support and the feeling of musicians building a shelter around each other.

After years of anniversary activity, reissues and nostalgia around the band’s early-2000s peak, this album asks a quieter but more important question: what happens when a collective grows older without losing the reason people cared in the first place? The answer seems to be less about explosive anthems and more about human-scale connection. For Indie Music Promotion readers, this is a useful album to frame as a mature return from one of Canada’s defining indie collectives: not a desperate comeback, but a communal record about memory, age and the messy relief of still being able to make music together. Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/broken-social-scene-remember-the-humans/ ; Stream/buy: https://arts-crafts.ca/releases/AC237.html ; Social: https://www.instagram.com/brokensocialscene