Arcade Fire, a.k.a. The Reflektors.

[Tacvbo]

So... what does everybody think about the cover they did for Peter Gabriel's album?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Well, thats not very Indie

Comcast isn't indie?

 

[bono_212]

Finally had a chance to do the interactive video. Wow. Has anyone else done it with the webcam and phone?

Wilderness Downtown is better, but this was still a really unique experience. I hope they keep doing stuff like this.

 

[mikal]

There's a song called Porno on the new album.

 

[LemonMelon]

Let's get silly.

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

Songs That Don't Suck: Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers w/ Arcade...

 

[u2popmofo]

Well there's a cover I'll never listen to again.

 

[PhilsFan]

1. Reflektor
2. We Exist
3. Flashbulb Eyes
4. Here Comes the Night Time
5. Normal Person
6. You Already Know
7. Joan of Arc
8. Here Comes the Night Time II
9. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)
10. It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
11. Porno
12. Afterlife
13. Supersymmetry

 

[LemonMelon]

75 minutes.

Another in a line of kind-of-but-not-really double albums from the past few years. I'm cool with that.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I'm always torn when a band puts the lead single as the first track on the album. No matter what, the single I've been listening to a month before the release of the album will sound out of place because it's too familiar, so it's nice to get it out of the way so as not to interfere with the flow of the rest of the record. But the intro to an album is so important, it's nice to have something new on the first listen to ease me into the experience

 

[u2popmofo]

Deal with it, JT.

 

[iron yuppie]

Double points for the Eurydice shout-out.

 

[phanan]

I'm always torn when a band puts the lead single as the first track on the album. No matter what, the single I've been listening to a month before the release of the album will sound out of place because it's too familiar, so it's nice to get it out of the way so as not to interfere with the flow of the rest of the record. But the intro to an album is so important, it's nice to have something new on the first listen to ease me into the experience

Which is why I listen only once and then wait. Cuz you are right, it definitely alters the album listening experience.

 

[the tourist]

Lately I've been trying my best to avoid all lead singles. I like to listen to a whole album nowadays when something new that I'm anticipating comes out. Which kinda sucks because the threads for the bands I like are usually dead by release day because everyone listened early (be it a leak or a stream or whatever).

 

[Jive Turkey]

Deal with it, JT.

Oh no you di'int

Which is why I listen only once and then wait. Cuz you are right, it definitely alters the album listening experience.

Lately I've been trying my best to avoid all lead singles. I like to listen to a whole album nowadays when something new that I'm anticipating comes out. Which kinda sucks because the threads for the bands I like are usually dead by release day because everyone listened early (be it a leak or a stream or whatever).

I don't have the self restraint that you guys do

 

[bono_212]

If I'm excited for something, and the band wanted me to hear a lead single, I'm going to listen to it.

 

[PhilsFan]

Yeah that song's just too catchy to not want to listen again.

That said, my band won't release the opening track as the lead single, just as a gift to you, JT.

 

[Jive Turkey]

If I'm excited for something, and the band wanted me to hear a lead single, I'm going to listen to it.

That's why I said I'm torn about it. No way I'm not listening to the song 500 times this week. It was just a comment about the listening experience of the album as a whole

Yeah that song's just too catchy to not want to listen again.

That said, my band won't release the opening track as the lead single, just as a gift to you, JT.

What is your band called?

 

[Imperor]

The Pecan Sandies.

 

[bono_212]

That's why I said I'm torn about it. No way I'm not listening to the song 500 times this week. It was just a comment about the listening experience of the album as a whole

This song in particular I'm still not feeling, so I can't say I'm with you on wanting to hear it a million times, but I know the feeling you're describing. I can't tell you how many times I'll listen to a new U2 single .

My response wasn't really aimed at you, so much as what others were saying about avoiding lead singles altogether.

Funny enough, I only listened to "Get Lucky" once before the new Daft Punk album came out and I STILL had that punch-in-the-head moment when it came on, because I KNEW it when I knew nothing else on the album. Those songs eventually fit, but it takes a few listens. Honestly, I almost prefer them to be at the beginning to just get it over with, but more often, I like them somewhere in the middle, so I have something to look forward to.

This has come to haunt me on some occasions, however, when the lead single is something that's SO good, that nothing else compares. Then, I find myself never able to really enjoy the songs that come after it, because that awesome feeling is over.

 

[PhilsFan]

What is your band called?

Oh shit, I probably need to start one.

 

[u2popmofo]

The Pecan Sandies.

That sounds delicious.

 

[No spoken words]

Oh shit, I probably need to start one.

Emotionally neutral.

 

[Jive Turkey]

This song in particular I'm still not feeling, so I can't say I'm with you on wanting to hear it a million times, but I know the feeling you're describing. I can't tell you how many times I'll listen to a new U2 single .

I wonder what it is that makes some people love a song and other not so much. Honestly, this is probably my favourite single in about a year, though Do I Wanna Know is right up there with it

 

[bono_212]

I wonder what it is that makes some people love a song and other not so much. Honestly, this is probably my favourite single in about a year, though Do I Wanna Know is right up there with it

For me with this particular song it's all perception. This song doesn't sound like Arcade Fire. I don't mind when people try new things, however it bugs me when the producer seems to overtake the artist. Therefore if the song was by anyone else I would probably like it a great deal, however, because it's Arcade Fire I find myself struggling to enjoy it.

Though I wouldn't be shocked if I find myself getting over it in probably a few more weeks.

 

[PhilsFan]

It feels like a natural enough progression from Sprawl II. I know it's got a Murphy groove, but it still sounds like Arcade Fire to me.

 

[bono_212]

I will admit, I'm also not the world' biggest fan of Sprawl II. What I mean is, I like that song a lot, but the love that everyone else seems to have for it, confounds me.

 

[lazarus]

1. Reflektor
2. We Exist
3. Flashbulb Eyes
4. Here Comes the Night Time
5. Normal Person
6. You Already Know
7. Joan of Arc
8. Here Comes the Night Time II
9. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)
10. It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
11. Porno
12. Afterlife
13. Supersymmetry

First off, two albums in a row where you have songs with parts I and II? Come on.

Also, the double mythology shout-out is eye-rollingly pretentious, and what someone who was making a parody of an artsy rock band would include in a tracklisting.

I'm always torn when a band puts the lead single as the first track on the album. No matter what, the single I've been listening to a month before the release of the album will sound out of place because it's too familiar, so it's nice to get it out of the way so as not to interfere with the flow of the rest of the record. But the intro to an album is so important, it's nice to have something new on the first listen to ease me into the experience

Yep.

 

[cobl04]

First off, two albums in a row where you have songs with parts I and II? Come on.

Also, the double mythology shout-out is eye-rollingly pretentious, and what someone who was making a parody of an artsy rock band would include in a tracklisting.

I find myself in complete accord with Lazarus here.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Reflektor (which I think is brilliant) being supposedly noticeably different from their previous work explains why I had never really been able to get into them in the past (I really tried).