Thoughts on the new Arcade Fire album

singles annoyed me.
album suffered from bubblegum pop production. they lost what made them unique which was the folksy sound, and their lyrics turned from personal stories to tumblr-esq comments on society with all the depth of a street puddle with a shinny oil slick.
3/10.

>>74092130
Didn't know it leaked. Probably won't bother with it because the singles have been consistently trash.

Not bad. Taking it in a new direction which is obviously going to alienate some fans, but lost a lot of the poetic lyricism that made their earlier work so appealing. A lot of what they were going for felt far too on-the-nose and obvious for a band of their caliber. The themes expressed are a bit hackneyed and well-worn, with a few exceptions that show themselves in shining moments, and there's some great production in there that makes staying through for the listen well worth it, as does the gorgeous penultimate and outro.

All and all I'd call it pretty good, worth the listen. Lasting tracks for me are Everything Now, Electric Blue, We Don't Deserve Love.

>>74092130
another elctro pop trash

its ok

probably not higher than a 6/10

Ironically, this album does best when it takes some of ideas of Reflektor's second disk, namely Porno and Supersymmetry. Put Your Money On Me features this the most, being the standout here, quality and mood wise.

>INFINITE CONTENT INFINITE CONTENT INFINTELY CONTENT

anyone has a link

NME gave this album a 10/10 somehow

>>74092770
NME is garbage

pretty sure they though Arctic Monkeys AM is 10/10 and legendary on the level of bowie, etc.

>>74092130
It's fucking shit and butler is way too up his own ass conceptually. Thank god both Fleet Foxes and Broken Social Scene stopped indie from totally dropping the ball this year.

>>74092811
The National will drop indie AOTY

I really don't like Peter Pan or Chemistry at all.

>>74092811
>>74092883
These are all albums I'm all about.

>>74092130
It's actually a good album, and i had zero expectations after the singles.
7.5/10 for me, their weakest obv.
But, i feel it's basically Reflektor pt2. Start with the singles, put a "rock" song (Chemistry, awful), then finish the first part with a song that has 2 parts, each one is like the part that represents. The second part has the longest and most "ambitious" songs, and it's clearly better than the first songs.
Finally, they ended the album again with a slow track, reminiscent of Supersymmetry.
Anyway, i hope their next album won't keep with this dance-rock style. It's really worn out by now (i'm not native english speaker btw)

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>>74092811
>>74092883
you're both forgetting the inevitable AOTY