They finally made a bad album

>INFINITE CONTENT IM INFINITELY CONTENT

is there a deeper lyric?

sad

>>74079652
They never made a good one

chemistry is aggressively bad

>>74079665
this lyric is unironically good

>>74079736
Some people here don't seem to understand that the album seems to have locked grooves. That's what infinite content and everything now are about.

>>74079652
i unironically like this album

>>74079718
Funeral is unironically a indie masterpiece

>implying it's bad
It's a 7.5/10. The only bad songs are Signs of Life and Chemistry. It's easy to slip into the "it's bad" mindset if you're comparing it to the previous four albums, but that doesn't mean it's bad; it's just because the previous four were monumentally good.

>>74079765
So is Neon Bible. Suburbs and Reflektor aren't "indie", but 2bh, they're also masterpieces.

>>74079665
That song is a fucking jam for being a minute and 45 seconds long

>>74079741
>>74079759
The "/mu/ thinks it's bad so I think it's good" popular opinion flip seems to be happening really fast.
(not saying it's bad, because it's definitely not)

>>74079811
I wasn't sold on it until Infinite_Content followed it. Put together, they actually work really well as one song.

>still no 320 rip
what the fuck is wrong with you idiots

>>74079814
im part of /mu/ if i post even shitty posts here

>>74079779
>Reflektor
>anything other than monumentally overlong and overproduced

>>74079779
Peter Pan sucks my left nut, too.

>>74079876
I'll agree that the songs stretch on for too long (they seem to have learned their lesson on EN; there are only two songs longer than 5 minutes).
I think the production on Reflektor was awesome and better than on any of their other albums.

>>74079921
I like it. Sounds like shit in the leak because of the blown out bass, but I think the melody is great.

Funeral: 10/10
Neon Bible: 8/10
Suburbs: 10/10
Reflektor: 9/10
This new garbage: 6/10
It was about time that the money ruin their creativity, rip arcade fire.

the writing has gotten so fucking bad

They need to get rid of Regine, it's clearly her ego that's ruining the band.

>>74079797
what are they then? baroque indie?

>>74079946
Maybe I'll have to relisten with a higher quality rip

Electric Blue is good though

>>74079970
>being this wrong
Funeral: 10/10
Neon Bible: 9/10
Suburbs: 8/10
Reflektor: 9/10
Everything Now: 7.5/10

How the fuck can anyone on this earth think Creature Comfort is anything other than atrociously offensive horseshit

Everyone on stereogum is like "THIS IS A JAM"

It's fucking embarassing

>>74079970
Nah

Funeral: 9/10
Neon Bible: 8/10
Suburbs: 6/10
Reflektor: 4.5/10
This new garbage: 3/10

I was 18 when The Suburbs came out and it sounded embarrassingly pretentious and heavy-handed even at that age. They've only gotten worse as the years have gone on.

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GOD MAKE ME FAMOOOSE

>>74080060
What don't you like about it? It's so fucking energetic, and I personally love grim lyrics contrasted against upbeat music.

>>74079765
It has like 2 good songs

>>74080094
The production is what it actually sounds like to throw a burrito against a windshield

The lyrics are offensively ignorant and straight up irresponsible

NA NA NA NA NA NA

>>74080073
nostalgic faggot

>>74080073
You're right that Suburbs was heavy-handed, but surprisingly, Reflektor was a little less on the nose.

>>74080045
nope, suburbs is better than funeral

Where the link at tho

>>74080116
The noisy production is part of what makes it great. It wouldn't be anywhere near as good if it were cleaner.
>offensively ignorant
What, do you think it's actually about suicide or something? It's not. It's partly about how people are pressured by society, partly about the consequences and our reaction to those pressures.

>>74080181
Sucks to see an innocent anon on 4chan putting more thought into the lyrics than anyone in the actual band did

>>74080125
Suburbs is blatant, on-the-nose garbage. Apart from the title track, Ready to Start, and Sprawl II, it's forgettable and repetitive and suffers for its insistence on adherence to the 'suburbs' idea.
Funeral is flexible and varied and has better songs.

They sound like their trying hard to be a David Bowie tribute band

>>74080205
>it's a fucking concept album
>insistence on the "suburbs" idea

jesus christ /mu, are you guys on dugs?

>>74080255
A good concept album doesn't allow itself to get dragged down by the theme. Suburbs is so fucking obsessed with its titular idea that it just ends up repeating the same ideas over and over.
And that's not to mention the actual music. Half of the songs have blurred together in my mind - they all sounded the same.

>>74080255
Whoever produced Regine's voice on Electric Blue was most definitely on dugs

>>74079652
Reflektor exists

>>74080123
Reflektor was less on the nose, but the left turn into bland dance songs hurt the album quite a bit. Besides, the lyrics were still nothing special, especially on tepid songs like Normal Person

>>74080119
How's that? I didn't start listening to them until 2010 anyway, and it was pretty objectively clear to me that Funeral and Neon Bible were better than the Suburbs

>>74080327
I normally like how Regine sounds on the final albums (especially in Sprawl II), but it's so fucking high-pitched here

Funeral 9/10
Neon Bible 11/10
Suburbs 9/10
Reflektor 7/10
This: 6/10
>you can't disprove this

>>74080469
>not giving Funeral 10/10
>ranking Suburbs higher than Reflektor
>not giving this at least a 7/10
What's it like being a FUCKING STUPID PIECE OF SHIT?

>>74080327
she sounds awful on creature comfort too

>>74080532
I think it works there because it's a fairly loud, angry song.

>>74080498
pretty great senpai.
don't mind me just jamming to well and the lighthouse -- a better song than any other one on reflektor or this album

They need to retire. They're sounding really old and washed up. Basically U2 at this point minus hundreds of millions of dollars.

Whats up with this whole "Hey guys lets go Electropop" bullshit that every fucking band is doing?

Stop experimenting with proven failing sounds that indie bands have done time and time again and work on creating good fucking music instead of trash.

I don't wanna hear the fucking bullshit about you "really having fun on this record", sit the fuck down, write some good ass music, and put it out.

Don't fuck around with stupid concepts, half baked ideas, and attempts at staying relevent in a music scene that is dominate by hip hop.

Fuck arcade fire

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well? rate it, bois

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>>74080774
Have I got a record for you.

Funeral: 10/10
Neon Bible: 8.5/10
The Suburbs: 9/10
Reflektor: 8/10
Everything Now: 6.5/10

Indie is over.

Its all about beats and nigger music now.

>>74080861
who is to blame?

so do we retroactively admit bss was the better band now?

what ive heard so far just sounds like gayer Echo & the bunnymen

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>>74080945

>>74080821
aha this guy knows
also The Crack up

BABY U AND ME

GOT CHEMISTRY

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>>74080073
>funeral not a 10/10

Win needs a ghostwriter, these lyrics are so fucking terrible, really brings down the whole package.

>>74079652
Reflektor was also shit

>>74080992
>Crack up
ewwwwwww

>>74079652
I'd say it's a 7.5/10 dragged down to a flat 7/10 for the godawful lyrics. It works for me, it probably won't work for most people.

Funeral: 10/10, if not higher

Neon Bible: 8/10

Suburbs: 8/10

Reflektor: 7/10 (that could have been a 9/10 if they didn't get so high on their own pretentious bullshit)

Everything Now: 7/10 (6/10 first half, 8/10 second half)

>>74081330
>that could have been a 9/10 if they didn't get so high on their own pretentious bullshit

what mean?

"Put Your Money on Me" is so good

Creature comforts has much more power through this vinyl rip. Shame the shit lyrics bring it down so hard

>>74081366
What's wrong with the lyrics?

Why do people act like half of Funeral isn't filler?

>>74081419
Self referential lyrics always kill me, the delivery of the backing vox are also super bad. On chemistry rn, so far I actually really liked Peter Pan and the title track was made better by that intro.

>>74081435
because that's not even close to being true?

>>74081472
Wow that second half of infinite content is really really pretty

>>74081435
What the hell are you on about?

>>74080988
this is true but not bad tho

On first listen it sounds sub-par but Put Your Money On Me is top 5 SOTY easily

holy shit I thought you guys were kidding but chemistry is the worst song they've ever released

>>74079652
It's not a bad album it's just not a instant classic.

>>74079876
Awful Sound into It's Never Over Into Porno into Afterlife is the best song run in Arcade Fire's Discography period.

step aside y'all real power rankings here

their best work was scattered across their first two albums, I still don't understand why people fawn over Suburbs so much, I had forgotten all the songs a week after it released

Funeral 7+
Neon 7
Suburbs 5
Reflektor 5
Everything Now 4

>SITE: WHAT CD REPORTED BY: Jason
...What? I thought what.cd was gone.

>>74083424
This

Orpheus and Porno are god tier. Reflektor is a 9/10 album that is shit on by contrarians.

I rated every song and got about 8.1

It's not that bad. But I really dig Signs of Life.

>still no 320 CD leak

>>74080101
It has arguably one bad song (7 Kettles)

>implying reflektor was terrible
no they just made their worst album

>>74081312
i actually like that album, they're missing fjm but pecknold is a great lyricist

>>74079652
you wanted to dislike it before you heard it. the narrative was written months ago

>>74080073
>Suburbs: 6/10
wut?!

>>74084177
as an album suburbs is a 6/10, but emotionally it's a 8/10 for me

>P4K score isn't even up yet and /mu/ is hating on it
When will you people learn

>>74084209
>p4k score isn't even up
kys

>>74083681
>CBR
Do you simply just hate storage space or something?

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>forced to download this trash in flac

>I thought I found it
>But I found out I don't know shit

BRAVO REGINE, 10/10

>>74080861
>Its all about beats and nigger music now.

as if indie wasn't influenced by r&b and disco before you clown

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>Album has two songs with the same title

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>This is what I started my weekend with

I'll just say it. This has been a bad week for people born between 1985-1995.

I'm going to bed.

>>74084493
Is this your first AF album or something?

>>74079652
ITT: nostalgiafags that are still not over Funeral, that probably didn't even listen to the album and are not paying attention to the obvious theme of the album and are shitting on it bc "muh mainstream shit" is such an easier thing to say

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>Put your money on, all your money on me

>>74081312
Crack-Up is proof ambitious indie music isn't dead. It's like the opposite of Everything Now.

>>74081419
They're extremely on the nose and self-important.

>>74084559
It being mainstream is not why it's terrible

Funeral isn't even their best album

Stop defending this awful music

Third listen now.

Holy fuck this is worse than I thought.

the decline of arcade fire genuinely makes me very sad

>>74085495
makes me happy.

I wasn't crazy about this album, but I We Don't Deserve Love is stunning.

Where's that download link boys?

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>YOU AND ME
>WE GOT CHEMISTRY
>BABY YOU AND ME
>WE GOT CHEMISTRY
>BABY YOU AND ME
>YOU AND ME
>CHEMISTRY

>>74083618
No one likes Signs Of Life

shitty Freak Out/Starry Eyes rip off

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this album unironically reminds me of this

yikes

anyone got a link?

they set such a high standard for themselves with their last four albums that they were bound to fail at some point. The album is probably still good and just pales in comparison to the rest of their work.

5 stars from NME
kino confirmed

Am I the only one in floods of tears at We Don't Deserve Love ? I think it's easily, easily one of their best songs.

Alright, for me it goes like this:
>Really good:
Creature Comfort
Peter Pan
Put Your Money on Me
We Don't Deserve Love
>Good:
Everything Now
Infinite Content (treating it as one song)
Good God Damn
>Eh:
Signs of Life
Chemistry
Overall 8/10, strong indie album but weak AF album

>>74079652
Well where's your album? Let's see you do better, yeah?

Arcade Fire EP: 7.5/10
Funeral: 10/10
Neon Bible: 8/10
The Suburbs: 10/10
Reflektor: 7/10
Everything Now: 5/10

Have they topped their EP yet? No?

Cya.

>>74084130
It has 2 good songs

>>74088234
Exactly like this.
You got it

>>74080073

Funeral: 6/10
Neon Bible: 6/10
Suburbs: 5/10
Reflektor: 5/10

I haven't listen to this, but seeing this trend, it's probably a 4/10

>>74088400
the EP was good but not amazing

>>74088234
But you forgot Electric Blue, in really good
That song is 10/10

Reflektor was bad

I didn't even like Reflektor.

And you know what, The Suburbs was mostly just retreading ground and had felt like they already ran out of ideas.

AND you know WHAT? Neon Bible isn't even that good. Just riding off of Funeral and no one had the heart to really shit on it.

>>74088450
Neon Bible is their masterpiece imo

>>74079665
>muh DFW

When will hipsters stop this bullshit?

>>74079797
How old were you when Reflektor came out? Like 14? Jesus

>>74079970
Funeral 7
Neon Bible 8
Suburbs 6
Reflektor 4
Haven't heard the new one

>>74088234
Oh yeah, and as >>74088443 pointed out, Electric Blue definitely also goes in Really Good

>>74083460
Actually, you're the contrarians. The consensus about Reflektor is that it's nowhere near the previous 3 albums.

I agree that It's Never Over is great, though.

>>74085495
Me too. That a band this talented decided to release something like Chemistry is almost an insult. How indulgent can you be?

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>>74079652
Funeral - 10

Neon Bible - 8

The Suburbs - 9

Reflektor - 9

Infinite Content - 7

>>74080774
>good music

Its subjective nigger. Go eat your tendies you fack sack of shit

>>74088471
>namedropping DFW for no reason to make this non-point

you're a stupid asshole.

>>74080992
the crack up is legit the most boring record i've listened to this year. sounds like everything else that fleet foxes have done, but on valium.

Can anyone post a link to the leak please

They're probably my favourite band but my god their fan base is horrible! haven't heard the album yet but there three singles are crap

>>74080353
>>74080327
they all old as fuck so they couldnt pick up regines fucking ear shattering frequencies.

>>74079652
dude neon light outside grand canyon desert lmao

>>74083618
The first 3 minutes of Signs are great but the it turns into shit.