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Post by DeepArcher on Jun 1, 2017 20:51:24 GMT
Just happened to hop onto Youtube at 3 pm, the exact minute this new song dropped. Very, very welcome surprise.
I think it's fantastic, and am listening to it for the fourth or fifth time already. Probably their most anthemic sound since Funeral. Can't wait for the full album.
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Post by bobbystarks on Jun 1, 2017 21:27:55 GMT
FUCK YES BABY ALBUM'S COMING OUT JULY 28TH
This song is so perfectly catchy.
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Post by Zeb31 on Jun 1, 2017 23:27:35 GMT
Love it.
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Post by countjohn on Jun 2, 2017 3:49:47 GMT
Ehhh, it was okay. Still looking forward to a new record from them after a big layoff. They're one of the very best act working today.
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Post by moonman157 on Jun 2, 2017 4:27:08 GMT
Rather embarrassingly awful.
THANKS ARCADE FIRE FOR REJUVENATING ABBA.
Go fuck yourself Win Butler you pretentious whore.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 2, 2017 8:41:37 GMT
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Post by countjohn on Jun 2, 2017 21:11:31 GMT
Rather embarrassingly awful. THANKS ARCADE FIRE FOR REJUVENATING ABBA. Go fuck yourself Win Butler you pretentious whore. Wouldn't go that far, but aside from some of the little noise bits it basically sounded like any other dance-pop track. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 16, 2017 15:11:10 GMT
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Post by DeepArcher on Jun 16, 2017 15:18:24 GMT
Yeah, sounds like a track straight from Reflektor, though I can definitely see how it will fit into the same sound as "Everything Now". I agree, "EN" is much better. I dunno, I think the lyrics of this one kind of bother me, they just feel so obvious. It's not bad, just feels weirdly amateur-ish to me. |
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Post by moonman157 on Jun 17, 2017 13:57:53 GMT
So uh, that lyric about their music saving a girl from suicide, that's like, uh, ironic or something, right? Right?
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Post by countjohn on Jun 17, 2017 15:40:16 GMT
So uh, that lyric about their music saving a girl from suicide, that's like, uh, ironic or something, right? Right? I took it as she tried to drown herself and was listening to Funeral to get in the mood. But still probably self-deprecating humor. I laughed regardless. Song was okay, again. Someone posted in the comments "Last time they sounded like Abba, this time they look like them"  |
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Post by DeepArcher on Jun 17, 2017 16:30:37 GMT
So uh, that lyric about their music saving a girl from suicide, that's like, uh, ironic or something, right? Right? Similar to what countjohn said, I thought it was a response to how people reacted to the tone of Funeral; i.e., perhaps fans have told the band that it even made them suicidal. I didn't really think they were implying that the music is what prevented the girl from killing herself. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Jun 25, 2017 2:50:46 GMT
Forgot to make a post about this a couple days ago. This video is glorious. "Before every concert, the members of Arcade Fire stand in a circle and each say one thing they like about capitalism."
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Post by DeepArcher on Jun 30, 2017 17:53:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 6:15:39 GMT
Recently got into it properly (even though and because I heard their works before in Boyhood and Her), and trying to figure out where this has been my whole life.  |
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 14, 2017 17:14:09 GMT
Forgot to add this one on yesterday:
It's bothering me that they're releasing so many singles before the album drops. Though it's hard to complain when they continue to be so good. This honestly may be my favorite one so far.
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Post by countjohn on Jul 15, 2017 0:35:15 GMT
Since I'm the thread wet blanket, I still thought both of those were just okay (although the Signs of Life video was cool). I'm a touch concerned since this is probably like a third of the album.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2017 16:03:26 GMT
OMIGOSH THEY ARE EVEN GREATER IN HEADPHONES WOOHOOOOO
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Post by countjohn on Jul 29, 2017 19:47:07 GMT
Continuing in the tradition of being the thread wet blanket, I was being optimistic and hoping that the pre-released tracks were the worst of the album, but in fact I think they turned out to be the best. Definitely Arcade Fire's worst album for me.
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Post by jakob on Jul 30, 2017 0:12:57 GMT
You know, it might be their weakest album, but Creature Comfort, Electric Blue, and Everything Now are such bops, it kind of makes me upset how vicious people have been towards the album as a whole. Sure, it's not Funeral, but don't start making claims like "Arcade Fire has always been bad" like I've seen trending on Twitter. That's just blasphemous. You put out an album that has a few great tracks and the rest just okay and somehow it all gets snowballed into the "this is the Internet and we hate everything category".
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Post by countjohn on Jul 30, 2017 2:17:43 GMT
Sure, it's not Funeral, but don't start making claims like "Arcade Fire has always been bad" like I've seen trending on Twitter. That's just blasphemous. People are actually doing that? Tools. I think part of the reason some of the reviews have been so hostile is that their past work has been so good that the expectations are sky high. They're just about the only "important" rock band that's still somewhat young (maybe throw St. Vincent in there too, even though she's not a band). That's a big mantle to carry. |
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Post by jakob on Jul 30, 2017 2:32:46 GMT
Sure, it's not Funeral, but don't start making claims like "Arcade Fire has always been bad" like I've seen trending on Twitter. That's just blasphemous. People are actually doing that? Tools. I think part of the reason some of the reviews have been so hostile is that their past work has been so good that the expectations are sky high. They're just about the only "important" rock band that's still somewhat young (maybe throw St. Vincent in there too, even though she's not a band). That's a big mantle to carry. I saw #ArcadeFire was trending yesterday and that reminded me the album dropped, then when I clicked, I was blasted with "stupid indie rock group/listening to gibberish is no different/ripoffs of (get this) The 1975/another round of awful music/terrible album, etc. It kinda stung a lot. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 30, 2017 2:48:01 GMT
Yeah, some of the more bombastic reactions to the new album are kinda ridiculous. Every artist is bound to have at least one or two weak albums. I think much of the issue is certainly that expectations for Arcade Fire, considering their past streak of success, are ridiculously inflated, made even more extreme by the fact that they hadn't put out new music in four years.
In regards to the album itself, I think it's easily their worst yet, though it's not outright bad. The singles are far and away the best songs on there, and I enjoy them a lot. But it's definitely the type of record that gives off the vibe that the band constructed a handful of great songs, and then rushed through production on an entire album to force those songs out there. The material that comes in between the singles is boring at best, with many of the songs being brief, uncreative snippets that contain little more than Win repeating the titular phrase over and over again (I suppose the singles do this too, particularly the title track, but they have far more going on in them that it's hardly noticeable). "Infinite Content" (and its "sequel" track) in particular is just bad and easily the worst track to be found in this band's discography. The only redeemable non-single tunes are the more lengthy "Put Your Money on Me" and "We Don't Deserve Love", which are more enjoyable in their restraint but ultimately suffer from many of the same flaws as the album's other songs and simply aren't memorable in retrospect. The biggest overarching problem here is that their thematic content feels very much like a re-tread of ideas that they'd touched on during previous work in a far more subtle and graceful way, and don't make many statements regarding modern commercialism and consumerism that feel truly original and worthwhile. They did a much better job of dealing with this type of content on their previous records, where the modern frustration existed more as a contributing factor to the overall melancholy rather than the main focus of aggression and surface-level criticism. The album had a fun marketing campaign, but that was probably far more scathing and humorous than anything else the album itself offered up.
Really hope they course-correct with their next work. It's their weakest by a long stretch, but not totally dispensable, as the band still shows a great deal of competence and ability despite clearly not meeting their full potential.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 30, 2017 11:57:26 GMT
I'm not a fan of the band in general, I mean in 2004 when Funeral dropped, I was listening to The Libertines and wondering if that needle was going to kill Pete Doherty, shrug......but as a band in this era, 1997-2017, and in the context of Rock history they're fascinating to talk about especially now.
As post internet era bands go, the modern era, for Rock is essentially dead for albums with a handful of established "classics" (term music journalists use, not the audience, unless they're acting like music journalists) - a few Radiohead records, Is This It, White Blood Cells, Funeral, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot...all of those are ancient really.....now I don't like all those records, and you may have a couple more you would swap in or out, sure, but the point is that Arcade Fire filled a very specific, Bowie-approved even, historical niche. They were, rather obsessively consciously creating Art more than any of their peers right from the jump - which is always a problem for Rock music- first 3 albums successfully so and in such a way that link them to the greats of that type in history - Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Bowie, Roxy Music, REM. I mean it even has the handle "Art-rock" or "Art-pop" for Godsakes......
The thing is those artists were very much divisive in their time too - well not Talking Heads but when the critics turned on them for Naked, (and late period REM) they turned hard. That is always the way it will always be but what is different for Arcade Fire is the stakes- a failure for Bowie, made you look for something else unlike him yet also created a whole genre in his failing immediately too because he carried that kind of critical cache among artists not just critics.........for Arcade Fire, they don't have that luxury, the world moves faster and things leave them behind faster. Rock means significantly less for them now so you can kick them when they are down and in effect move on, or take pleasure from it or re-contextualize why they were ever acclaimed, whether they deserved it, what is their specific niche in where we are now?
The pool of "indie Rock" is so insular and meaningless that a "failure" from them maybe would take years to seep into the culture in the works of other artists now even in this genre.......and nobody is going to give it enough repeated listens to generate much contrary, interesting thought.
Here's the real scary thought:
It will still still generate a high placement at end of the year album lists for those who will always love the band pre-Reflektor, and is holding out for the return to form (or style) and who can't generate 4 or 5 other Rock titles this year that stand with it anyway. Because for this band, one of the few for whom Rock meant something, means something still, they are in effect the sound of one hand clapping right now. De La Soul had it backwards.........stakes is low.
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Post by jimmalone on Jul 31, 2017 8:55:26 GMT
It's surely their weakest album so far, but compared to much of the music of nowadays it's still okay.
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