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Arcade Fire – Reflektor {rating} Download: Reflektor Alarm bells began to ring as soon as it was revealed that Arcade Fire’s fourth album, their follow-up to 2010’s massively successful The Suburbs, was to be that most pretentious of all rock band pretentions: a double album. As more details began to emerge – namely that the […]
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April was a pretty busy month in music – just a quick read through the music news will tell you that. Kasabian announced their new album, Liam Gallagher sent everyone into a mini-meltdown about a possible Oasis reunion, Glastonbury announced the first raft of acts for this years festival and there was also the small […]
The (almost) full line-up for this years Glastonbury Festival has been revealed this morning – confirming Kasabian as headliner alongside Arcade Fire as well as announcing another 80 or so names to the bill. The only surprise is that the third headliner is still not confirmed – with the line-up including a ‘Special Guests’ in […]
Last year the full Glastonbury line-up was revealed on 27 March, and as there’s no reason to suggest this year’s line-up won’t be announced at around the same date I think it’s time for a round-up of all the latest rumours and news about this years Glasto. First up, here are the bands we already […]
We’re coming up to the end of the year, which means there’s currently a deluge of ‘best of’ lists hitting us from all angles online. I don’t like to dwell too much on picking out the ‘best’ when it comes to albums as to pick one excellent album out as ‘better’ than another seems a […]
Arcade Fire have built up their fourth album Reflektor into one of the most highly-anticipated albums of 2013, through a variety of inventive promotional activities – including guerilla-style graffiti, TV specials, numerous previews and trailers and more old-fashioned single streams. Despite them whipping the media and their fans into a froth of expectancy, early reviews […]
Yesterday felt like playing a game of cat-and-mouse with Arcade Fire. No sooner had a new radio rip of new Reflektor track ‘Afterlife’ popped up on Soundcloud (after its premiere on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show) it was getting taken down again. After embedding three new versions that quickly got taken down, I gave up […]
In one way or another Arcade Fire have unveiled about half of their upcoming Reflektor album – as well as the recent fan-videos they played a load of songs on a US TV special to add to the release of the title track and lead single. What we’ve been lacking from them so far though […]
If you hadn’t noticed, Arcade Fire have got a new album coming out soon. This weekend, they played a couple of small and widely over-subscribed gigs in Brooklyn (tickets were changing hands for about $2,000!) and were going by the name of The Reflektors. During the shows they played a host of tracks from their […]