Broken Social Scene materialized in 1999 when K.C. Accidental's Kevin Drew & Brendan Canning, formerly of By Divine Right, bonded their friendship into a band. During the next few years, Broken Social Scene created an atmospheric rock sound. Feel Good Lost marked their debut album in 2001 & introduced a revolving cast of Canadian indie musicians. Drew's fellow mate from Do Make Say Think was added to the band, as well as Evan Cranley (Stars), James Shaw, & Emily Haines (Metric). You Forgot It in People showcased Broken Social Scene's expansive musical design in October 2002. Digipak. Copy Controlled. Arts & Crafts.

Broken Social Scene是一支有室内管弦乐队般庞大阵容的加拿大创作团队，一个拥有21个团员的加拿大摇滚乐团，二十一世纪第一个十年最伟大的乐团。与很多优秀唱片一样，你第一次听，就有耳目一新的感觉，随着聆听的深入，就越来越强烈感到它是如此美丽。悦耳的和声、奇妙的场景、多种的器乐伴奏，形形色色的风格，充分体现在每一首歌里。加拿大实验名团「崩世光景」终于带来了时隔4年的新作，另类魅惑的旋律依旧让人难以拒绝。

在前作獲得加拿大朱諾音樂獎項後，BSS光環效應驟增，成為超越十五人的團體，且數位團員來自於Stars、Metric、Do Make Say Think…等樂團，樂風多元豐富但仍統合於BSS名號之下不見混亂。新作品打破音樂製作的藩籬，不修邊幅的創作理念，將各種元素重組為樂手擅長的曲式，在一股生氣蓬勃與動人的樂音裡，聽見無限的活力與能量。

Hug Of Thunder marks the fifth studio album from Canadian alt-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene, their first in seven years. Founded in '99 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, the new album features 17 players and 15 original members including Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars, Charles Spearin and Ohad Benchetrit of Do Make Say Think, and Grammy-nominated Leslie Feist.
Hug Of Thunder is everything BSS fans love from the Canadian collective and then some, an album overflowing with glorious open chords, multi-voice harmonies, spacious psychedelia-tinted breakdowns, and more. It is a panoramic, expansive album that manages to be both epic and intimate; and like all things BSS, in troubled times, it offers a serotonin rush of positivity. Since their inception in the early Aughts, BSS have always pushed sonic boundaries while remaining reverent of a perfect chorus; almost twenty years down the line, Hug Of Thunder sharpens that balance and then some. The record's twelve songs refract the band's varying emotions, methods, and techniques in ways that not only reference their other albums, but surpass them. Hug Of Thunder is righteous but warm, angry but loving, melodic but uncompromising. And if you've ever fallen in love with Broken Social Scene - as many of us have - it is a perfect return that was truly worth the wait.
Hug Of Thunder was produced by Joe Chiccarelli (White Stripes, Spoon, The Strokes) with Nyles Spencer, and mixed by Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Weezer).