Arcade Fire

[harmless]

That's pretty cool. Dark, funny and helps to bring out the meaning in the song.

[zeb]

Good stuff.

[Harry Lime]

It might take a few listens. Crazy cool video by Anton Corbijn though!

[Bob Loblaw]

This is so fucking awesome.

[dimejinky99]

I still haven't heard this. I'm afraid to in case I don't like it.

[Tim]

This is a double album?

[Mike]

I'm beginning to love this song and that video only helps. That reflector-man is fucking creepy.

That's pretty cool. Dark, funny and helps to bring out the meaning in the song.

What do you think the song is about? I'm not very good at figuring stuff like this out. People not being real/true and only being reflections of their surroundings?

[Simple Torture]

This is a double album?

It's definitely a double-LP, but I dunno about the CD.

In case anyone's looking for it, the limited single of the title track is available on the Merge Records website. Limited to 500 copies online! https://www.mergerecords.com/store/stor ... log_id=957

[Simple Torture]

This is a double album?

It's definitely a double-LP, but I dunno about the CD.

In case anyone's looking for it, the limited single of the title track is available on the Merge Records website. Limited to 500 copies online! https://www.mergerecords.com/store/stor ... log_id=957

Actually, yeah, it's definitely a 2-CD set. Does that mean a double album or the album and remixes, or the album and demos? Not sure. https://www.mergerecords.com/store/stor ... log_id=958

[dimejinky99]

Just as I thought. I hated it.

[harmless]

I'm beginning to love this song and that video only helps. That reflector-man is fucking creepy.

That's pretty cool. Dark, funny and helps to bring out the meaning in the song.

What do you think the song is about? I'm not very good at figuring stuff like this out. People not being real/true and only being reflections of their surroundings?

I think so. The song could be a comment about fame (Arcade Fire becomes a disco band, The Reflektors! and Arcade Fire meet them in the video), spirituality ('God' is whoever we are), politics, anything. The lyrics, paraphrased, are something like "I was looking for ... but what I found was just a reflector." Everywhere I look, just reflections of myself. That kind of thing. It's very open to interpretation but that "just a reflector" is the key.

[EJ]

That's pretty cool. Dark, funny and helps to bring out the meaning in the song.

Gotta agree. Really enjoyed that. Definitely enhanced the appeal of the song for me. And, I generally dislike music videos. I'm really looking forward to this album.

[burl jam]

Great song. Coming up to album no. 4 It really is the sound of a band who are at the top of their form experimenting and gradually moving away from their signature sound.

[liebzz]

I am gonna get this without hearing anything from the album in advance, mostly because I think with them you need to just dive into the deep end. I find that splashing your toes in to check the temperature with one song never quite works out and rarely does them justice. I have not heard Neon Bible yet, but was happily but not obsessively impressed with both Funeral and The Suburbs.

[harmless]

I am gonna get this without hearing anything from the album in advance, mostly because I think with them you need to just dive into the deep end. I find that splashing your toes in to check the temperature with one song never quite works out and rarely does them justice. I have not heard Neon Bible yet, but was happily but not obsessively impressed with both Funeral and The Suburbs.

Neon Bible may just change your life as it did mine.

[dimejinky99]

I'm hoping this is the oddball track on the album. They usually have one or two on each record.
This is my hope and I'm clinging to it.

[harmless]

I'm hoping this is the oddball track on the album. They usually have one or two on each record.
This is my hope and I'm clinging to it.

Did you prefer the music on the album ad you showed us? That might be more representative, I don't know. But this band always does a huge mixture of different kinds of songs.

[dimejinky99]

Feck no I thought the music in the ad was terrible too.
Forgot about that.

[Jorge]

The single is really great. I just listened to it for the first time. I love the French vocals.

[harmless]

I wonder if the French vocals are a "reflection" of the English ones. I don't speak French but someone here might. It would be interesting if the back and forth / call and response was adding to the ideas in the song.