Broken Social Scene present video for Vanity Pail Kids

Kevin Drew has directed the video for Broken Social Scene‘s Hug Of Thunder album track Vanity Pail Kids.

It presents visuals for a track which Live4ever conversely found to be a rare misstep on an album which otherwise rarely put a foot wrong. “BSS co-founder Brendan Canning has admitted that despite the ostensibly upbeat, melodic outer shell of these songs there is, ‘also a certain amount of darkness too’, this undertow the by-product of a tidal wave of bleak news,” our review reads.

“It’s a pandemic of gloom which somehow they manage to draw on without falling victim to, the collision of ideas on Vanity Pail Kids the only definite moment where too much stimulus combined with an inability to self edit results in something frazzled and messy.”

“Accused in the past of being unable to steer a clear path through to their message, this time round Canning and Drew have marshaled their personnel – and dozens of nocked thoughts – into songs that are good to hear and you sense were good to make.”