Arcade Fire 2: Arcade Harder

[BoMac]

Also...

And:

Oh, can't forget:

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Not as exciting as the album announcement last time around.

If my memory hasn't failed me, they announced The Suburbs along with the album art AND both the title track and "Month of May" all on the same day.

I remember hearing those two songs and knowing that it was gonna be a great album. The tone and freshness of just those two tracks was a really positive sign for me. They seemed like they were having a lot of fun.

Hopefully we hear an actual song from this soon.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

Also...

And:

Oh, can't forget:

I second this!

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

Funnily the band announced it as a reply to someone's tweet.. lol

Arcade Fire ‏@arcadefire @fifferwright Thanks. Our new album will be out October 29th. pic.twitter.com/CAgYucvimo

 

[cobl04]

Hopefully this is the album where their music finally clicks for me.

 

[lazarus]

How about the click of the hammer hitting the firing pin?

 

[No spoken words]

How about someone pulls the fucking trigger until it goes "click"?

 

[lazarus]

Jesus.

 

[LemonMelon]

Hopefully this is the album where their music finally clicks for me.

Danny, you're out of your element.

 

[lazarus]

Who the fuck are The Suburbs?

 

[bollox]

Where's Izzy Sarah?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Hopefully this is the album where their music finally clicks for me.

Fuck you.

 

[djerdap]

So maybe this will be the first decent album they did after Funeral.

 

[LMP]

Dios mio, man.

 

[u2popmofo]

James Murphy Talks New Arcade Fire Album | News | Pitchfork

James Murphy, who worked on the record, recently spoke with NME about it. At this point, he says his work on the record is finished, but, "For them, it's not finished until it's in stores."

"They're all so phenomenally talented and full of ideas so songs keep on coming," he added. "The last time I dared think it was finished I came back to the studio three days later to mix and they'd written two new songs for the album!"

He also said that Régine Chassagne, who was pregnant during some of the recording (she's married to bandmate Win Butler), worked in the studio "up until, like, the very final point she possibly could in the studio before giving birth. All of them, they're so committed to making this record."

Murphy didn't give much of a description of how the album sounds, but did offer up, "It sounds like Arcade Fire in the way that only Arcade Fire sound like Arcade Fire, you know? It's really fucking epic. Seriously. I mean, I feel at this point like I'm too close to it to really talk it up and do it justice. You know?"

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

No, I don't know James, but thanks for nothing.

 

[BoMac]

It's epic, you say? Well then.

 

[PhilsFan]

"Epically long, I'll bet!" - NSW, soon.

 

[lazarus]

I heard that his production credit in the liner notes is actually going to read "Pretended by James Murphy".

 

[No spoken words]

Epically long, I.....oh.

 

[LemonMelon]

All I do is stuff my face and forget to stop the tape before it tops 15 minutes. You know?

Great interview.

 

[cobl04]

I love you James.

 

[u2popmofo]

Sit down, down, down, down, down in sympathy

 

[Danny Boy]

Was that post born of frustration, Scumbo?

 

[AiRMaRcI9o0]

Apparently the new album may be titled "Reflektor"

Graffiti Suggests Arcade Fire Album Title Is 'Reflektor' | Music News | Rolling Stone

Reflektor

 

[u2popmofo]

Was that post born of frustration, Scumbo?

 

[lazarus]

Apparently the new album may be titled "Reflektor"

Graffiti Suggests Arcade Fire Album Title Is 'Reflektor' | Music News | Rolling Stone

Reflektor

Are they turning into Radiohead?


TH_EARCA_DEF_IRE REFL_EKTO_R

 

[lazarus]

Lance says:

More like ROLFlektor, amirite??

 

[LMP]

Was that after he said "Daaaaad, quit quoting me on the Internet and heat me up some fucking meatloaf?"

 

[AiRMaRcI9o0]

Possible single release on 9/9 at 9PM assuming this "Reflektor" business is the doing of Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire Might Be Doing... Something... on September 9 | News | Pitchfork