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Post by DeepArcher on Aug 1, 2017 4:14:18 GMT
A couple more notes on Everything Now after giving it several more listens:
--"Put Your Money on Me" is a legitimately great song, and perhaps the best on the entire album.
--"Everything Now (continued)" is a rather beautiful and affecting emotional conclusion that the rest of the album does not earn.
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Post by Zeb31 on Aug 5, 2017 2:46:42 GMT
As someone with minimal knowledge of Arcade Fire's pre-Reflektor catalogue, the reactions to this album are kinda baffling to me. Not that it's so polarizing, because it is indeed a bit of a step down from everything else I've heard from them, it's just how hyperbolic the hate seems to be. You have people going around proclaiming they're dead and finished, dubbing them Dumpster Fire, calling tracks like "Chemistry" worst-of-all-time material and meaning it. Come the fuck on now. I'm surprised at just how intensely so many of their fans have turned on them, to the point where you'd think they just dropped the latest Coldplay record.
I get disliking the new tracks, but to call it a complete 180 makes little sense even with my limited familiarity to their trajectory. Songs like "Electric Blue" and "Creature Comfort" wouldn't feel at all at odds with the rest of Reflektor in terms of style. And then there's some misconceptions like the whole "Filled up the bathtub and put on our first record" line being read as narcissism and ego-boosting, and "Peter Pan" getting dismissed as a lazy, meaningless crack at a commercial love tune when it's apparently about Butler's father dying of cancer. Doesn't really warrant the hate it's getting. It's a solid record, and the reactions wouldn't be nearly as bad if it weren't for the middle section (which is still all right).
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 5, 2017 12:17:55 GMT
Not that it's so polarizing, because it is indeed a bit of a step down from everything else I've heard from them, it's just how hyperbolic the hate seems to be. ........... In my earlier post I addressed this but you're right too. It isn't surprising at all to me the venom they're getting - that is the trajectory of big serious beloved Rock bands that fall on their face that I listed earlier. The real issue is how none of that will matter in about 5 months when end of the year lists are being done because the genre they are a part of is dead, a band playing with the tropes of Rock history (Abba, for one) to say that very thing - that no one cares - play with your phone and just dance but everybody cares enough to hate your record - the irony is almost funny, but not for them because they are trapped in it and not as funny as that many people will vote this the album of the year because what else will they even know about that qualifies as "indie" or even "Rock". Like I said before, "stakes is low"......drop this album into Bowie/U2/Roxy Music/REM's career and the after effect would completely different and exciting in what would grow out of that failure for culture, creativity, dialog, Art, as for nowadays, they are number 1 in the UK ........... so .Rock and roll
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