So this new Arcade Fire record...

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Hmmm

It's gonna be a grower for me. Every time I put some music on this week, I want to listen to the new Los Campesinos! album instead

I don't believe for one second that Señor Azul doesn't own all of their albums already xoxoxox
 
Okay. This is definitely a grower. Feels more akin to Neon Bible than Funeral or The Suburbs, but way more expressive.

I'm still at work drafting a bunch of documents and I'm blasting it at an unacceptable volume.

'It's Never Over' is pretty rad if you crank it.
 

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I will have a proper listen on Sunday, but they are one of my favorite bands ever.

Seen them in Liverpool do a concert to 400 just when they released their first album. Superb, seen them four more times since but that first time was unreal.
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Agreed on all points. I saw them at a club show right as Funeral was blowing up here in the States. They were really too big already to play a place that small, but they were finishing out dates they were already contracted for. They're always good live, but that first time will never be topped.
 
I admit I'm not an audiophile (indeed, this is my first Arcade Fire album), but I picked it up a few days ago and so far I think this album is spectacular. If it's indeed a different direction from previous albums, well done to the Quebecois. Most bands become disappointingly recursive with later work (Even radiohead all sounds the same, despite adapting their style), so I'll be interested to listen to their previous stuff.

But after giving it a few listens, yesterday I asked a friend (who does have a respectable opinion on music) and his only comment, "Automatic."
 
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Absolutely love it. Like all their albums it takes time to get into, but when you do break it in it says with you. Expecting anything from Arcade Fire other than something different is a fruitless task -- they will never churn out the same album.
 

I'm liking it more every listen but still haven't heard better than the first track Reflektor.

Love Normal Person too. Very Neil Young which is a-ok with me.

Struggled with Suburbs but enjoying this. Been announced already for Primavera festival here next year. Can't wait as I haven't seen them since Funeral.

I remember working in HMV in dublin when Funeral came out and National - Alligators also. Both were played to death and it was one of the few times when everybody who worked there agreed on any albums.
 
Here Comes The Night Time is terrifically haunting, but it's two lighter tracks on the "back side" that I can't kick: Awful sound and It's Never Over. These sounds weave in and out of my head.

I'm sure you've read/heard their inspiration for these tracks, but in either case it's worth reposting:

Fans of Arcade Fire might be feeling a bit of culture shock. The group has been called the world's most successful indie rock band — but its new album, Reflektor, explores the Haitian roots of band member Regine Chassagne.

She and her husband, frontman Win Butler, have worked with Haitian relief groups for years; the band has donated more than $1 million to charities there. Speaking with NPR's David Greene, Chassagne and Butler say the seeds of the idea for Reflektor were planted on a trip they took to Haiti right after winning the 2011 Grammy for album of the year, in a total upset.

"And then there's people coming from the mountains to watch us play who've never heard The Beatles before," Butler says of the scene when the band arrived. "You realize, stripped of that context, what you're left with is rhythm and emotion and melody; it kind of gets back to these really basic building blocks of music. So we kind of wanted to start from there and try and make something out of it."

Reflektor isn't a dance record through and through, but it does incorporate many specific dance rhythms — "Here Comes the Night Time," for example, evokes the Haitian street music known as rara in its faster moments. The title of that song, Butler says, refers to an uncanny sight that can often be seen at dusk on the streets of Port-au-Prince, large parts of which have no electricity.

"Everyone's kind of really hustling to get home because it can be kind of dangerous in a lot of neighborhoods; you have to get home before nightfall. And people have their bags of groceries and they're sprinting in the streets trying to get home," he says. "And then you see, like, three dudes in really sharp suits that are just stepping out to go out to a nightclub or something like that. You kind of have this duality where it's this really exciting atmosphere, but then also really dangerous at the same time.

Chassagne says that though the new album's themes are deeply meaningful to her, she hopes the band has created something that can be appreciated anywhere.

"I'm kind of stuck a little bit in both worlds, so I would like to make something that, basically, my mom could dance to. She wouldn't dance to a New Order song, but she would dance to the Haitian beat," Chassagne says. "I want to kind of do something that everybody can lock into."
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Here Comes The Night Time is terrifically haunting, but it's two lighter tracks on the "back side" that I can't kick: Awful sound and It's Never Over. These sounds weave in and out of my head.

I'm sure you've read/heard their inspiration for these tracks, but in either case it's worth reposting:



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I like you kid which part usa from.
 

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