Broken Social Scene, "Meet Me In The Basement"

The new Broken Social Scene video is a pastiche of shocking news footage and ugly still photos that basically amounts to the same “We are Rome before the fall! The world is ending!” gist you’ve seen projected on wall space at too many college art shows. But the editing is so expertly crisp and the song itself so propulsive and engaging that by the end, you find yourself ready to sign up for the revolution. The you’re like wait, what revolution? And then you just hope that huge packs of humboldt squid would come flying out of the oceans and finish us off already. Seriously great song, though.