Arcade Fire's comeback album, their first in five years, is the group’s best yet, writes BWheelerglobe: 'WE recalls the band’s early-career crowd-pleasers, but in quieter forms.' Read the full review here:
is the table setter for a pianocentric album that feels dispirited and depleted, but never disjointed, and ultimately uplifting. Butler’s trembling vocals skitter on rich, measured piano chords, with a quick, muffled pulse-beat in the background. Lyrics start in the first-person singular before switching to a plural pronoun: “I can’t stop crying” becomes “We can’t stop crying.” It’s a theme to the record., a strummed-acoustic life lesson for a child.
The title-track finale is an elegant off-ramp. We’ve never heard Butler so gentle. An acoustic guitar is strummed, piano sounds dapple occasionally. Butler is considering giving everything away.The album, then, is Butler’s proposal: “When everything ends, can WE do it again?” He’s talking about starting over. Let’s call it, “Humanity: Part II.”Follow
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