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Arcade Fire are to release their third studio album in May 2010, Billboard reports. The mysterious follow-up to Neon Bible will be preceded by a single and the band plan to headline at least one major summer festival.
Admittedly, these aren't very juicy details. But after months of rumours, this is the first official confirmation. Take the news that Arcade Fire have again been working with Coldplay engineer Markus Dravs: it's not the Montrealers who made the announcement, nor Dravs himself, despite allegedly having "been there for six months". Instead, the news came from the band Mumford and Sons, who worked with Dravs on their debut album. "I keep asking Markus how [recording] is going and he's like, 'Yeah, it's OK', and I'm like, 'What are the songs like?' And he goes, 'Better,'" Markus Mumford told the BBC.
Arcade Fire haven't performed live since 21 January 2009, when they played a private party in Washington, DC for members of Barack Obama's campaign staff. Now, Billboard reports, they are considering a string of live dates in the spring.
Though it's been two years since the band released Neon Bible, they haven't been resting on their laurels. Violinist Sarah Neufeld and multi-instrumentalist Richard Parry released another album with their group, Bell Orchestre, earlier this year. In October, Parry debuted a new orchestral work, For Heart and Breath and Orchestra, which incorporated the musicians' pulse and breath into the performance.
Meanwhile, Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, Arcade Fire's main songwriters, worked with Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett to write the score for Richard Kelly's new film, The Box. On the eve of that film's release, Pallett used Twitter to weigh in on the forthcoming Arcade Fire album. "Can't contain it," he wrote. "I just completed 10 days on the best album I've ever had the pleasure of working on."
And about time! can't wait
Admittedly, these aren't very juicy details. But after months of rumours, this is the first official confirmation. Take the news that Arcade Fire have again been working with Coldplay engineer Markus Dravs: it's not the Montrealers who made the announcement, nor Dravs himself, despite allegedly having "been there for six months". Instead, the news came from the band Mumford and Sons, who worked with Dravs on their debut album. "I keep asking Markus how [recording] is going and he's like, 'Yeah, it's OK', and I'm like, 'What are the songs like?' And he goes, 'Better,'" Markus Mumford told the BBC.
Arcade Fire haven't performed live since 21 January 2009, when they played a private party in Washington, DC for members of Barack Obama's campaign staff. Now, Billboard reports, they are considering a string of live dates in the spring.
Though it's been two years since the band released Neon Bible, they haven't been resting on their laurels. Violinist Sarah Neufeld and multi-instrumentalist Richard Parry released another album with their group, Bell Orchestre, earlier this year. In October, Parry debuted a new orchestral work, For Heart and Breath and Orchestra, which incorporated the musicians' pulse and breath into the performance.
Meanwhile, Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, Arcade Fire's main songwriters, worked with Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett to write the score for Richard Kelly's new film, The Box. On the eve of that film's release, Pallett used Twitter to weigh in on the forthcoming Arcade Fire album. "Can't contain it," he wrote. "I just completed 10 days on the best album I've ever had the pleasure of working on."
And about time! can't wait
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good news!
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really looking forward to this, just hope it's as good as their last two
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Pretentious carp
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only vaguely heard of them. i spose its mainstream "indie" borefest?
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na cunny, i think arcade fire are the most promising band for music at the moment, when ya look at the garbage thats in the charts at the mo, it's nice to see a band like arcade are still out there
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Reyes 27 Jan 13:09
good news! SECONDED !!! |
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cupra id be interested to know which band bands u like and how is fantastic music pretentious? have u actually listened to for eg wake up or no cars go?
Deffo the best band ive heard for many a year ..far superior to likes of mundane killers and awful green day. |
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I am more looking forward to the new Midlake album out on monday, but love Arcade Fire.
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i dunno whats pretentious about every band member being multi instrumental, melodic and powerful lyrics, 3 of their songs are virtually perfect, etc.
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going to midlake in two weeks
cant wait :D |
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what 3 songs you talking about, tony?
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