Concert Review: Broken Social Scene Piece Together At Webster Hall
Similar to Sharon Van Etten, the perks of seeing Broken Social Scene is that you feel like an adult watching them. Yet, I am not talking about “old” or “tired.” I am talking about that moment when you transition from giving up to giving in. The realization that life is not something you fight or outwit but something you join. At Webster Hall, Broken Social Scene’s “friendship hang,” as they called it, made you want to join right in.
As tracks like, “World Sick,” “Halfway Home,” “Can’t Fine My Heart, and ”Stars And Sones” played on, I kept on thinking, specifically of Elton John’s Someone Saved My Life Tonight, and how, in a ways, Broken Social Scene played to this verse:
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
I’m strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
For them, you become an adult when you stop trying to heal the world and start healing yourself. In essence, become the change you want to see in world and you will see the world change. This is not a new idea, but Broken Social Scene’s music made it fresh for the packed crowd. I love seeing a calm audience ready to invest their minds as much as their heart, Playing songs from all over their catalogue, including from their newest EP, Let’s Try The After Vol 1. & 2., Broken Social Scene felt like a gathering of applied wisdom.
Submission is a strange, love-hate word, for many human beings, because some use the term to resign to another’s horrid will, while others use it to signify getting through someone’s ways rather than over or under them. Broken Social Scene are the latter, and lead singers Ariel Engle and Kevin Drew, with Emily Haines joining in, planted the wisdom of verses spiritual ease and joviality. With all that is happening in the world, this collective or artists and musicians understood that music is healing, which make a concert feel like a recovery bay. Think of their performance like spiritual therapy; of which, at Webster Hall, many drove down for their first session.
Broken Social Scene – Boyfriends (Official Video)
Happy and serene is how I would define Broken Social Scene’s show, and I am thankful for that. Concert’s are as much about dynamics as they are sonics. Thus, you are choosing a space as much as you are a sound, and Broken Social Scene create a space I want to live in. For More Information On Broken Social Scene Click Here.
