Arcade Fire Reveal New Track

Arcade Fire have revealed another new song from their upcoming album Reflektor - the penultimate track, Afterlife. If you're in the UK, you can have a listen here. The album is out 28th October.

Arcade Fire Post Short Film

Arcade Fire have posted a 20-minute video directed by Roman Coppola, featuring three new songs (Here Comes The Night Time, We Exist, and Normal Person) and celebrities including James Franco and Michael Cera! Have a look:

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Artwork

Tracklist
01. Reflektor
02. We Exist
03. Flashbulb Eyes
04. Here Comes The Night Time
05. Normal Person
06. You Already Know
07. Joan Of Arc
08. Here Comes The Night Time II
09. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)
10. It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
11. Porno
12. Afterlife
13. Supersymmetry

The album will be released on October 28th in the UK. It is a double album, split between tracks 7 and 8 - the tracks are reported to be quite long!

The artwork is a statue of Eurydice and Orpheus, who are both mentioned in tracks 9 and 10 respectively.

The first single is Reflektor, available on YouTube now.

Arcade Fire To Unveil New Album

Arcade Fire will be unveiling the details of their new album on September 9th at 9pm (I imagine that's not UK time, so we can expect details in the early morning of the 10th). The album's release date is October 29th, and is rumoured to be titled Reflektor, which is a word that has been appearing mysteriously around the world (Arcade Fire are confirmed to be behind it). Lastly, if you go onto Spotify and search Arcade Fire, you will be able to hear a 15-second clip titled "9pm 9/9" - it doesn't really give much away though.

Arcade Fire Announce Album Release Date

Arcade Fire have announced that their fourth album, currently untitled, will be released on October 29th. No other details are known at this point. The album follows 2010's fantastic effort The Suburbs.

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Arcade Fire - The Suburbs



I've never been a massive Arcade Fire fan, but I heard The Suburbs and Month Of May at some point earlier this year and became intrigued by this album, and I wasn't disappointed. The previously mentioned two tracks along with Ready To Start, Half Light II (No Celebration) and Suburban War are the best on the album. The others are also good, but it drags on a lot due to having 16 tracks, which is about three or four too many for my liking.

If I had to cut it down, I would take out Empty Room (my least favourite), Wasted Hours, Deep Blue, and maybe the outro, The Suburbs (Continued). However, they aren't bad enough to be boring; they're good tracks on their own, but the album does go on and on, and it gets slightly dull overall after a while.

Despite this album really making an impression on me, I tried the older Arcade Fire albums again, but they're not getting any better for me. So I'll leave them to the greater Arcade Fire fans, take The Suburbs and go.

SCORE


Previous albums: Funeral (4/10), Neon Bible (5/10)

Music News Time!

The Killers have announced plans to record an album of covers by the end of 2009, for release in early 2010. Each band member will choose three tracks to form a twelve-track album.

Friendly Fires have announced they will release a new single, Kiss Of Life, in August.

Arcade Fire are halfway through writing their third album.

Arctic Monkeys may announce the first single from their upcoming third album, Humbug. It is rumoured to be Secret Door or Cornerstone.