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New Arcade Fire

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    fluke wrote: »
    How many more albums do they have to release through Columbia?

    I'm really not sure - I understand they've just signed a major label deal - not sure what that involves these days.
    Word was, U2 had to fulfill their 360 deal by doing the current tour, rather than finish the new album.
    It's a different musical landscape these days than I grew up with.
    The idea of my favourite artists using their music on ads was repulsive.
    These days, it's understood as a necessary evil.
    That's what the album satirises I think..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭fluke


    I've decided to listen to a couple of songs before purchasing...

    Not half bad..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,031 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Yeah, definitely prefer it to Reflektor on a few listens.. though 2 things:

    1. Chemistry is muck
    2. Less of these silly 1 minute instrumentals.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    Indie Abba?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭fluke


    Having revisited Reflektor last night I think I may have been hard on it. The first disc is pretty consistent (and makes for a pretty good headphones listen) except for You Already Know.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40 Synergism


    What sucks about Arcade Fire?

    Everything Now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭fluke


    Was gonna get a pair of tickets to one of the London shows but £70 a ticket is a lot to be asking for.


  • Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Pure tashte


    I had not realised Reflektor was so poorly received by fans, I would have said it is far, far superior to Everything Now and probably on par with the Suburbs, definitely with Neon Bible.

    Reflektor is a bit overblown and pompous (and overly long), but overall I think it brought them in some interesting directions and is musically superb. Some of the tracks could have been cut, but I don't think there has ever been an Arcade Fire album that couldn't have trimmed a bit of fat (Crown of Love anyone?).

    The new album goes a bit overboard with this pomposity, maybe it will be a grower but I'm not sure if I'll ever get into it in the same way as their previous albums.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    Funeral isn't even the best album of that decade,I would give that accolade to wolf parades Apologies to the Queen Mary.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭fluke


    loyatemu wrote: »

    Bit much from a record store really..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭johnpatrick81


    Sounds absolutely nothing like it IMO, even that short bit!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    I can just imagine Arcade Fires producers having a Nin Huguen and the Huguenotes moment obscure Spanish band etc :pac:
    Yeah likely a coincidence,does sound similar to my ears ..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭fluke


    It does sound similar just not as Abba-esque as Arcade Fire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭circular flexing


    Got the vinyl of the album and it sounds amazing on vinyl. Whatever about the quality of the songs, the production is spot on. Everything Now (the track) turned up loud is immense.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm not sure what I make of this album tbh. It's certainly inconsistent, but it has some wonderful moments too.

    The negatives:
    "Chemistry" is godawful, I may eventually appreciate it in a fun/ironic sense but I'm not there yet.
    "Peter Pan" is forgettable. Not terrible, just very meh.
    "Good God Damn" has the bones of a decent song but it's too repetitive and ends up being a bit irritating.
    And the "Infinite Content" duo are just filler that sound like they were tossed off in about ten minutes.

    The rest of the album is pretty solid, however. "Everything Now" is a banger, "Electric Blue" is a gem that reveals its beauty once you get used to the unusual vocal.
    And "We Don't Deserve Love" is up there with the best they've recorded. I think I prefer those three songs to anything that was on Reflektor.
    , but I don't think there has ever been an Arcade Fire album that couldn't have trimmed a bit of fat (Crown of Love anyone?).

    Ah g'way outta that, nothing wrong with "Crown of Love". If I absolutely had to cut one song from Funeral it would probably be "7 Kettles" but overall I think the album is pretty perfectly balanced and doesn't need any additions or subtractions.


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