Broken Social Scene share first new music since 2010

It's called "Golden Facelift" and it's part of a compilation of songs about various news events in 2014 called Broadsheet Music: A Year in Review, which is a collaboration between Arts & Crafts, The Globe & Mail, and the Canadian Opera Company. You can download it for free here.

Fucked Up also feature on the compilation, which you can hear below, sharing a 17-minute Italian Opera about "the misleading illusions of liberty and the voice." It's called "Voce Rubata", and it comprises six acts. Explaining the premise, the band have said:

""Voce Rubata" is about two threads of a similar illusion, both leading to their own tragic outcome. A tragedy of hope for a kind of creative mobility, and a tragedy of abandonment in discovering the mechanisms by which one is meant to be 'free' in fact are in the service of promising liberty, but not delivering it. All this is told through the prism of the trappings of being a classically trained singer, who can only operate within the bounds of tradition."

Broken Social Scene have also explained "Golden Facelift"'s modern poignancy despite being an 'old' track:

"It is a song we as a band all felt strongly about lyrically and musically and we wanted to give it a proper unveiling when the time was right. We feel that chance is now as this year draws to a close. 2014 has not been without its beauty, but it has also been a year of incredible brutality and all of humanity has a great deal to answer for. As songwriters and creative artists we want the world to know Broken Social Scene's aim is to be a voice that will champion underdogs and the idea of goodness on this planet upon which we all take up valuable space."

Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning also provides a solo track titled "No Doubt or Fire", which was inspired by the death of Robin Williams.

Listen to "Golden Facelift" below.