The 2013er factory has more dancefloor emphasis than any of their previous records, making even the seven and a half minute title song clearly: It swings and grooves, there's no tomorrow, and yet is only the calm before the storm, because in the subsequent " We Exist "rocking the band going on - boring bass line and a simple as cliché-free rock reef, and a refrain like a popular song (in a good sense, of course). "Flashbulb Eyes" is the shortest song of the record, nursery rhyme-like melodies and playful acting psychedelic sounds characterize him. "Here Comes The Night Time" is perhaps the very strongest song of the album, six and a half minutes driving rock with traditional rock'n'roll melody in the best sense, simply a fantastic song that literally exploded in the last two minutes. Are expected in the coming years, one of their live classic. "Normal Person" is a splendid rock hit with bratzigen guitars, we call it quiet Pigs Rock (positively defined, please!), And a melody and a song, rock and roll in a class! "You Already Know" sprayed live atmosphere, the Boogie rhythm and multilayered vocals characterize this piece. "Joan of Arc" can recall the "pastoral" echoes so many songs from the first two albums, with a melody that is able to develop the best catchy qualities, at the end of the song increases the Bombastic to abruptly end in silence. "Here Comes The Night Time II" is the next track, and how to do that already knows well with Arcade Fire, their "Reprise" tracks are beautifully different from the first piece, and in contrast to the first song on the album is the one beautiful, quiet song with tasteful string arrangement. Followed by two over a six minute long songs that lead thematically to ancient Greece: "Awful sound (Oh Eurydice" and "It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)", and again prove to Butler, Chassigne & Co. and as a master of sophisticated melodies understand it excellently to bring the very loose and relaxed over how they muster also sounds a wide range, without seems overloaded. The next track will take another six minutes, because you think the reader beforehand at "six" almost to something else, if the piece but actually "Porn" is ... Arcade Fire in pigs hedgehogs or what? Of course not, because first it's a nice, cool Electropopsong, and secondly, the text (as far as I understand him better without supplement was) certainly nothing to do with the glorification of the stuff when Win Butler several times of "Feel Something Wrong" sings. So no foreign matter on the album, including "Afterlife" does not, either musically (the Groove, the one from the of this group , here died after death), banalities they leave debut loves) nor lyrically (metaphysical and other philosophical questions and song topics like others. "Supersymmetry" decides the plate and is over 11 minutes the longest piece that the group has so far published on studio albums: A beautiful ballad with sizzles rhythm, but only until the sixth minute, followed by a subtle sound collage, as obtained, for example by Radiohead since "Kid A" knows, or blessed old Krautrock times around forty years ago.
Arcade Fire remain an exceptionally creative and unique band, and this album should be named in a few months the record of the year, that would be very likely deserved. For me, the I walk slowly on the 60, it's a huge pleasure to enjoy such plates where it understand young musicians / interior terrific today to process the best of several decades of rock and pop. Arcade Fire fans of all countries, rejoice (with me)!