Posted April 8, 20251 yr Arcade Fire have just announced that new single 'Pink Elephant' is out on 9th May! Lead single 'Year of the Snake' is out now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpYapWU--JA
April 8, 20251 yr guess you mean the new ALBUM is called Pink Elephantvery short pre-album campaign, 1 month,
April 8, 20251 yr Feels ever so slightly weird now they're a member down and after the allegations...Year of the Snake is sounding interesting though, definitely lacking a big hook but I am enjoying the slow build.
April 8, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, Chez Wombat said:Feels ever so slightly weird now they're a member down and after the allegations...I'm struggling with this as well. 'Year of the Snake' is underwhelming and undercooked. It's hard not to feel like the magic has completely gone.
May 9, 20251 yr On 4/8/2025 at 10:40 PM, blacksquare said:I'm struggling with this as well. 'Year of the Snake' is underwhelming and undercooked. It's hard not to feel like the magic has completely gone.It's completely gone. There is no need to separate the art from the artist with this one. This is limp and offers absolutely nothing — it feels more like an unnecessary side-project by Win and Régine than an Arcade Fire record.
May 10, 20251 yr I haven’t listened fully but flicked through the tracks on Apple and absolutely nothing I heard made me want to listen to more
May 11, 20251 yr The two singles haven't really made me want to listen to it more and the reception is pretty lukewarm so may well be the first album I give a miss - even if the allegations hadn't happened, it just feels like it's missing anything standout. I know their last few eras weren't the best received but they all had memorable singles at least!
May 11, 20251 yr Yeah, the album is OK, but nothing special. It's a long way short of the quality of Funeral.
May 12, 20251 yr 11 hours ago, Chez Wombat said:The two singles haven't really made me want to listen to it more and the reception is pretty lukewarm so may well be the first album I give a miss - even if the allegations hadn't happened, it just feels like it's missing anything standout. I know their last few eras weren't the best received but they all had memorable singles at least!This is how I feel about the entire thing — although it does give me the ick to think that I would have continued happily listening to it and ignored the allegations if it had been good.It's a long way short of the quality of 'Reflektor' (seems more appropriate — much as I do love that album), and even compared to 'WE', it's shoddy
May 12, 20251 yr Yeah, R K Fire have been rapidly losing their spark since Reflektor for me, I’m glad I managed to catch them live before this whole shitshow at least. Also giving this album a miss, the singles are very forgettable and seemed like a rehash of their sound without adding anything new or remotely exciting to it.
May 12, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, pavi said:Yeah, R K Fire have been rapidly losing their spark since Reflektor for me, I’m glad I managed to catch them live before this whole shitshow at least. Also giving this album a miss, the singles are very forgettable and seemed like a rehash of their sound without adding anything new or remotely exciting to it.That album gets a lot of unwarranted flak — I have always loved it, incredible live at the time too. It still feels inherently Arcade Fire while exploring completely different sonics for them. It's an album full of gems.It's been diminishing returns since sadly
May 12, 20251 yr 4 hours ago, blacksquare said:That album gets a lot of unwarranted flak — I have always loved it, incredible live at the time too. It still feels inherently Arcade Fire while exploring completely different sonics for them. It's an album full of gems.It's been diminishing returns since sadly Correction, I should’ve said “after Reflektor” because I liked it a lot, as well as partially Everything Now, for what it’s worth.
May 13, 20251 yr Same here, I can't bring myself to listen to them since the allegations. I enjoyed bits from Everything Now and WE, but it was very much diminishing returns, so I don't really feel like I'm missing much by not even giving this a listen.
May 16, 20251 yr Bad review on Pitchfork (5.5)PitchforkArcade Fire: Pink ElephantRead Ian Cohen’s review of the album.
May 21, 20251 yr On 11/05/2025 at 23:27, Padamic_Tension said:Easily their most disappointing material to date by a long mile.Agree, unfortunately. =(
May 21, 20251 yr TBH, the album isn't really bad by itself (the title track and 'I Love Her Shadow' are great) but it is not strongly helping them at this point in their career.But then, mellow albums can easily go "badly" so perhaps Pink Elephant is one of those.
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