Arcade Fire’s Will Butler has revealed the band are “30% into recording a new album”.
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Since then, the Canadians have sold millions of albums worldwide, won a Grammy and headlined Glastonbury. Head here to see if it’s playing in a theater near you and buy tickets. September 25 is the drop date for the digital reissue, which will feature unreleased tracks, but make sure you mark October 16 on your calendar as well. We never fully and properly documented any process.
Unless any significant objections are raised at a city hall consultation Wednesday night, members of Arcade Fire have the green light to build a restaurant on Amherst St.
Not unlike the Clash – in the film, Butler describes the post-punk group as “a magnetic pole for us” – who famously changed their style by following up their universally adored album London Calling with Sandanista! “Sure. Put it out there”. It’s good to know that we can play rhythmic music together and that we’re good at it, but there’s not enough there yet to know [if it’s going in that direction].
“It’s often resulted in worse music being presented in a more technically proficient way”. Because there’s no interviewer extant to ask follow-ups, we’re meant to accept these quick musings as thoughtful diamonds, when in fact they’re rarely even complete, much less particularly provocative.
The film is only being released for two days in the United Kingdom, which Will says aims to “fit with the theme of the tour where it’s a bit more of an event”.
“Certainly not the least pretentious music doc out there, the film spends a long preamble fading in and out of interview clips, dropping each one before the unidentified speaker has said anything of substance”, DeFore writes.
That session with Diplo and Skrillex may end up as a track on the followup to Arcade Fire’s 2013 album Reflektor.
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2016 would mark 12 years since Funeral came out and three since the release of Reflektors. Cause I think Kahlil came to the very first shows at the Salsathèque (in Montreal), which were kind of pre-warmup shows.
