21/03/2022
Rarely does critical consensus pivot as quickly and sharply as it did for Arcade Fire, a band that began the 2010s snagging a surprise album of the year Grammy for its beloved, towering double album "The Suburbs," and ended the decade caricatured as out- of-touch scolds when its 2017 technology critique “Everything Now” left just about everybody cold. The overwhelming return-to-form narrative that has greeted its first new music in five years, from an album due May 6, though, suggests that many were simply waiting for the group to once again make songs that sound like "The Lightning I" and “II.” “I won't quit on you, don't quit on me,” Win Butler sings through gritted teeth on the first part of the song, which moves at the tempo of someone running against the wind....
http://drolab.co.uk/arcade-fire-ignites-a-fresh-era-and-11-more-new-songs/
Rarely does critical consensus pivot as quickly and sharply as it did for Arcade Fire, a band that began the 2010s snagging a surprise album of the year Grammy for its beloved, towering double albu…
