“Shoreline,” or “7/4″ depending on who you talk to, is a fairly old song—you can find a version of “7/4″ with Leslie Feist handling the female vocals dating back to March 2003. It’s also one of the few recorded glimpses we have of the next Broken Social Scene record, tentatively titled Windsurfing Nation (”because we had all these kind of glidey songs,” Brendan Canning told Billboard). Having not seen a BSS show since 2003 (and not remembering much from it anyway), I couldn’t tell you if their recent performances have revealed any changes or refinements to “Shoreline.”

It definitely does sound like a “glidey” song, whatever that really means, and as dangling bait for the next album, it’s pretty good. The wait for genuine new material, however, will be quite a bit longer; the last release date given was Valentine’s Day, but with just two weeks to go without mention of a set title or date, it seems unlikely we’ll see the album before the snow melts.