Broken Social Scene announce new album "Remember The Humans" out 8th May via City Slang || Share lead single + video "Not Around Anymore" || North American Tour

Broken Social Scene announce new album Remember The Humans out 8th May via City Slang

Share lead single + video “Not Around Anymore”

Canadian legends Broken Social Scene announce the release of their new album Remember The Humans out 8th May via City Slang in the UK and EU / Arts & Crafts in North America and available to preorder here.

Marking their first new studio album in nearly a decade, the LP reunites the Toronto collective with producer David Newfeld, who helmed their breakthrough You Forgot It in People (2002) and self-titled 2005 album. And the timing feels uncannily right. We live in an era that is overstimulated, and yet simultaneously hollowed out; deeply connected, but marked by a profound sense of dislocation. The album’s title is like a quiet alarm: a reminder not to forget the fragile, analogue beings at the centre of all the noise. Across the twelve tracks the arrangements are dense and enveloping - a lattice of horns, guitars, voices, and electronics - yet melody always remains sovereign, reminding us always that there are human hands on the controls and that, however artful, this is still rock and roll.

This sensibility crystallizes on the album’s opening track and lead single “Not Around Anymore” where frontman Kevin Drew incants about the disappearance of possibility in a world where “it's all gone away.” But the nostalgia hinted at by the lyrics is gently resisted by the music: by invoking a past that has vanished, the song unexpectedly floods the present with a glow that rivals the very greatness being lamented. The track is accompanied by a video directed by Jordan D Allen, Rachel McLean and Kevin Drew

Remember the Humans was shaped by reunion and loss in equal measure. When Drew and Newfeld reconnected after nearly 20 years apart, one hangout became what they call “a hurricane of fun”, the kind of energy that demanded musical expression. During the recording, both lost their mothers - a shared grief that drew them closer. As Newfeld recalls, “our moms would have wanted us to do this, and get it right after 20 years of not working together.”

As ever, Broken Social Scene operates less as a band than as a community and songs evolve by ceding control to whoever can best carry them forward in the moment. Drew may be the designated driver, but collaborators on Remember the Humans, including Hannah Georgas, Lisa Lobsinger, and Feist, step into the foreground throughout the record, shaping songs with a sense of collective authorship that has always defined the group’s ethos.

The songs work because no one fully commands them. But this is where Newfeld matters most. As BSS’s Charles Spearin puts it, “his production suits the chaos of our songwriting so well...he's got a childlike energy that is really contagious, when you get a piece of music that he loves, Oh my God, he's bouncing like a little boy.”

The same unruly energy that keeps a band young can also trap it in its own past. Yet on Remember the Humans, Broken Social Scene have evolved with a deep sense of intention. It is the sound of a band deepening rather than reinventing, exploring the emotional implications of forms they’ve spent twenty years shaping. “There's a different kind of honesty in this record,” says Spearin, “we've had success, we've lost friends, we've lost parents, we're at this ‘what happens next?’ stage in life." Remember the Humans is adult music in the best sense: contradictory, wounded, expansive - hopeful in a way that feels earned rather than declared. And it is also, in its refusal of control and its embrace of the ungovernable, a testament to something increasingly rare: art that is not optimized, not streamlined, not strategic.

BSS’s own evolution mirrors something happening outside it. After years of oversaturation and noise, the culture itself seems to have looped back to a craving for the raw, the communal, and the unguarded. The conditions that made You Forgot It in People feel necessary in 2002 have, in altered form, returned in 2026. According to Drew, “in 2026, you're going to see a lot of resurgence of people going back to the roots of who they are, because things in their lifetime have gotten quite lost. I think we've let each other down, and I think it's art that always tries to prevail, and tries to get us back on track.”

In a culture defined by abstraction and distance, Broken Social Scene have made a record that insists on the analogur fact of human presence. It asks, gently, but insistently, that we remember each other, that we remember the human.

Broken Social Scene have also announced news of a major North American Tour with their friends Metric and Stars. The “All The Feelings Tour” dates kick off June 8th in Austin, TX and conclude August 7th in their hometown of Toronto. Along the way the tour will stop in Los Angeles on June 16th for a show at The Greek Theatre and at Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Paramount on July 30th. Metric is on all dates as the co-headliner and Stars will be on the run supporting both bands. Stay tuned for news of UK live dates.

Remember The Humans Tracklist

1. Not Around Anymore

2. Only The Good I Keep

3. Mission Accomplished (Kingfisher)

4. The Call

5. Relief

6. And I Think Of You

7. This Briefest Kiss

8. Life Within The Ground

9. Hey Amanda

10. Paying For Your Love

11. What Happens Now

12. Parking Lot Dreams