Album review: Arcade Fire blazes ahead on 'Reflektor'
Beguiling patterns and riffs overflow on a genre-jumping new album that's big, brash and original.Arcade Fire has certainly found itself on a strange perch with its new album, "Reflektor." The last time the Montreal-based group made a record, "The Suburbs," it did so as an acclaimed indie band — not a Grammy album of the year-winning act on the verge of becoming a household name.
Topix — The early buzz on Arcade Fire's new album, courtesy of James Murphy, the former LCD Soundsystem mastermind who is one of its producers, was that it was "really [expletive... more info
KEXP Seattle — “Stick with the old stuff, Win.” That’s the advice that Butler gets from Carl the roadie (Rainn Wilson) after playing a bloated, belligerent rendition of Funeral cu... more info
411 Mania — Arcade Fire returns with Reflektor, the follow-up to their Grammy award-winning breakout LP The Suburbs! But does the new album keep the band on top? 411's David Hayter... more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Beguiling patterns and riffs overflow on a genre-jumping new album that's big, brash and original.Arcade Fire has certainly found itself on a strange perch with its new a... more info