- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      Arcade Fire
  Album:       Reflektor
  Label:       Merge Records
  Playtime:    75:12 min
  Genre:       Indie
  URL:         http://arcadefire.com/
  Rip date:    2013-10-25
  Street date: 2013-10-29
  Size:        133.58 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     236 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo

- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -

  "If this is heaven/I need something more," Win Butler and Re┤gine Chassagne,
  Arcade Fire's founding singers, declare in close, almost whispered harmony as
  the opening title song of their band's extraordinary new album goes into high
  gear. "Reflektor" is seven and a half busy minutes of art and party. Over a
  strident-disco hybrid of the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" and Yoko Ono's
  "Walking on Thin Ice," Arcade Fire and their new co-producer, James Murphy of
  LCD Soundsystem, throw brittle-fuzz guitar licks, grunting bass, mock-grand
  piano and ballooning synth chords across deep reverb like frantic instrumental
  argument. They also find room for David Bowie, one of Arcade Fire's first and
  biggest fans, who sings with Butler near the end and repurposes the descending
  vocal flourish from his 1975 hit "Fame."

  The way Butler and Chassagne, who are married, sing those lines in "Reflektor"
  is a sublime moment in the commotion. It is also a perfect summary of their
  group's still-fervent indie-born hunger after a decade of mainstream success,
  and specifically, the decisive, indulgent ambition on Reflektor: a two-record,
  75-minute set of 13 songs and the best album Arcade Fire have ever made.
  Founded in 2003, the Montreal-based band û which includes
  multi-instrumentalists Richard Reed Parry and Butler's brother Will, bassist
  Tim Kingsbury and drummer Jeremy Gara û has always thought and acted big,
  using serious echo and drum-circle-like percussion to amplify the emotional
  mysteries in Win's U2-meets-elliptical-Springsteen writing. Arcade Fire's
  third album, 2010's The Suburbs, was urgent and clear, a record about dreams
  and escape, gassed with classic-rock punch. It was a Number One hit and
  rightly won a Grammy for Album of the Year.

  Reflektor is even better, for this reason: the jarring, charging union of
  Murphy's modern-dance acumen and post-punk sabotage with Arcade Fire's natural
  gallop and ease with Caribbean rhythm. (Chassagne is of Haitian descent; she
  and Butler have been active in relief efforts there.) Murphy worked on all but
  two songs, with most of those tracks near or over six minutes long. The result
  is an epic made for dancing and sequenced like whiplash. "We Exist" rolls like
  the pop-leaning late-Eighties Cure, then butts into the paranoid mule-kick
  reggae of "Flashbulb Eyes." "Here Comes the Night Time" abruptly zigzags
  between rapid Haitian drumming and a Talking Heads-at-the-beach stroll û as if
  Murphy and the band can't decide which night they like best û while "You
  Already Know" is buoyant New Wave Motown, with Chassagne's half of the
  call-response chorus sparkling in the reverb. That song has to be a single. It
  ought to be a hit.

  Arcade Fire don't play a lot of straight-up heads-down rock & roll. But they
  are damn good at it. "Normal Person" starts with a joke (the sound-effect
  chaos of a club band plugging in for a night's work), then sounds like Butler
  singing in front of the Velvet Underground with a wobbly Little Richard on
  piano. The opening shock of "Joan of Arc," the last track on the first disc,
  is hardcore punk. But the blitz quickly drops into meatier surprise: a Gary
  Glitter-style stomp. The song û a memorial to female strength and sacrifice û
  surges to an inevitable conclusion: long keyboard sighs and Chassagne singing
  in French through warping electronics, as if from inside a ring of fire. It is
  a dynamic, poignant finish, and I doubt anyone would feel cheated or unhappy
  if Reflektor ended right there.

  But the two discs have their own mood swings, the second less manic and more
  plaintive, even luxuriant at times. The sequence is loosely based on Greek
  myth û the rapture, violent separation and eventual reunion of the lovers
  Eurydice, a nymph, and the musician Orpheus (depicted on the album's cover).
  "Feels like it never ends/ Here comes the night again," Butler sings with an
  eerie-Neil Young effect in a reprise of "Here Comes the Night Time," before
  the trouble starts.

  There is dance music in this half of Reflektor too: the industrial-funk strut
  and Bowie- esque vocal glaze of "It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)"; the "Blue
  Monday"-prime New Order all over "Afterlife." But this is the push and pull of
  loss and hope, utter despair and the refusal to quit. "I gotta know/Can we
  work it out/Scream and shout/Till we work it out," Butler and Chassagne ask
  each other, in heated unison, in "Afterlife," before Reflektor dissolves into
  the warm vocal-and-electronic exhale of "Supersymmetry." There is no specific
  resolution by then. But there is calm, at least for now.

  It is tempting to call Reflektor Arcade Fire's answer to the Rolling Stones'
  1972 double LP, Exile on Main Street. The similarities (length, churn, all
  that reverb) make it easy. But Reflektor is closer to turning-point classics
  such as U2's Achtung Baby♥ and Radiohead's Kid A û a thrilling act of risk and
  renewal by a band with established commercial appeal and a greater fear of the
  average, of merely being liked. "If that's what's normal now, I don't want to
  know," Butler sings in "Normal Person," sounding like a guy for whom even this
  heaven, next time, won't be enough.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. Reflektor                                                         ( 7:33)
  02. We Exist                                                          ( 5:43)
  03. Flashbulb Eyes                                                    ( 2:42)
  04. Here Comes The Night Time                                         ( 6:30)
  05. Normal Person                                                     ( 4:22)
  06. You Already Know                                                  ( 3:59)
  07. Joan Of Arc                                                       ( 5:26)
  01. Here Comes The Night Time II                                      ( 2:52)
  02. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)                                         ( 6:13)
  03. It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)                                      ( 6:42)
  04. Porno                                                             ( 6:02)
  05. Afterlife                                                         ( 5:52)
  06. Supersymmetry                                                     (11:16)

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- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      Arcade Fire
  Album:       Reflektor
  Label:       Merge Records
  Playtime:    75:12 min
  Genre:       Indie
  URL:         http://arcadefire.com/
  Rip date:    2013-10-25
  Street date: 2013-10-29
  Size:        133.58 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     236 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo

- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -

  "If this is heaven/I need something more," Win Butler and Re´gine Chassagne,
  Arcade Fire's founding singers, declare in close, almost whispered harmony as
  the opening title song of their band's extraordinary new album goes into high
  gear. "Reflektor" is seven and a half busy minutes of art and party. Over a
  strident-disco hybrid of the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" and Yoko Ono's
  "Walking on Thin Ice," Arcade Fire and their new co-producer, James Murphy of
  LCD Soundsystem, throw brittle-fuzz guitar licks, grunting bass, mock-grand
  piano and ballooning synth chords across deep reverb like frantic instrumental
  argument. They also find room for David Bowie, one of Arcade Fire's first and
  biggest fans, who sings with Butler near the end and repurposes the descending
  vocal flourish from his 1975 hit "Fame."

  The way Butler and Chassagne, who are married, sing those lines in "Reflektor"
  is a sublime moment in the commotion. It is also a perfect summary of their
  group's still-fervent indie-born hunger after a decade of mainstream success,
  and specifically, the decisive, indulgent ambition on Reflektor: a two-record,
  75-minute set of 13 songs and the best album Arcade Fire have ever made.
  Founded in 2003, the Montreal-based band – which includes
  multi-instrumentalists Richard Reed Parry and Butler's brother Will, bassist
  Tim Kingsbury and drummer Jeremy Gara – has always thought and acted big,
  using serious echo and drum-circle-like percussion to amplify the emotional
  mysteries in Win's U2-meets-elliptical-Springsteen writing. Arcade Fire's
  third album, 2010's The Suburbs, was urgent and clear, a record about dreams
  and escape, gassed with classic-rock punch. It was a Number One hit and
  rightly won a Grammy for Album of the Year.

  Reflektor is even better, for this reason: the jarring, charging union of
  Murphy's modern-dance acumen and post-punk sabotage with Arcade Fire's natural
  gallop and ease with Caribbean rhythm. (Chassagne is of Haitian descent; she
  and Butler have been active in relief efforts there.) Murphy worked on all but
  two songs, with most of those tracks near or over six minutes long. The result
  is an epic made for dancing and sequenced like whiplash. "We Exist" rolls like
  the pop-leaning late-Eighties Cure, then butts into the paranoid mule-kick
  reggae of "Flashbulb Eyes." "Here Comes the Night Time" abruptly zigzags
  between rapid Haitian drumming and a Talking Heads-at-the-beach stroll – as if
  Murphy and the band can't decide which night they like best – while "You
  Already Know" is buoyant New Wave Motown, with Chassagne's half of the
  call-response chorus sparkling in the reverb. That song has to be a single. It
  ought to be a hit.

  Arcade Fire don't play a lot of straight-up heads-down rock & roll. But they
  are damn good at it. "Normal Person" starts with a joke (the sound-effect
  chaos of a club band plugging in for a night's work), then sounds like Butler
  singing in front of the Velvet Underground with a wobbly Little Richard on
  piano. The opening shock of "Joan of Arc," the last track on the first disc,
  is hardcore punk. But the blitz quickly drops into meatier surprise: a Gary
  Glitter-style stomp. The song – a memorial to female strength and sacrifice –
  surges to an inevitable conclusion: long keyboard sighs and Chassagne singing
  in French through warping electronics, as if from inside a ring of fire. It is
  a dynamic, poignant finish, and I doubt anyone would feel cheated or unhappy
  if Reflektor ended right there.

  But the two discs have their own mood swings, the second less manic and more
  plaintive, even luxuriant at times. The sequence is loosely based on Greek
  myth – the rapture, violent separation and eventual reunion of the lovers
  Eurydice, a nymph, and the musician Orpheus (depicted on the album's cover).
  "Feels like it never ends/ Here comes the night again," Butler sings with an
  eerie-Neil Young effect in a reprise of "Here Comes the Night Time," before
  the trouble starts.

  There is dance music in this half of Reflektor too: the industrial-funk strut
  and Bowie- esque vocal glaze of "It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)"; the "Blue
  Monday"-prime New Order all over "Afterlife." But this is the push and pull of
  loss and hope, utter despair and the refusal to quit. "I gotta know/Can we
  work it out/Scream and shout/Till we work it out," Butler and Chassagne ask
  each other, in heated unison, in "Afterlife," before Reflektor dissolves into
  the warm vocal-and-electronic exhale of "Supersymmetry." There is no specific
  resolution by then. But there is calm, at least for now.

  It is tempting to call Reflektor Arcade Fire's answer to the Rolling Stones'
  1972 double LP, Exile on Main Street. The similarities (length, churn, all
  that reverb) make it easy. But Reflektor is closer to turning-point classics
  such as U2's Achtung Baby and Radiohead's Kid A – a thrilling act of risk and
  renewal by a band with established commercial appeal and a greater fear of the
  average, of merely being liked. "If that's what's normal now, I don't want to
  know," Butler sings in "Normal Person," sounding like a guy for whom even this
  heaven, next time, won't be enough.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. Reflektor                                                         ( 7:33)
  02. We Exist                                                          ( 5:43)
  03. Flashbulb Eyes                                                    ( 2:42)
  04. Here Comes The Night Time                                         ( 6:30)
  05. Normal Person                                                     ( 4:22)
  06. You Already Know                                                  ( 3:59)
  07. Joan Of Arc                                                       ( 5:26)
  01. Here Comes The Night Time II                                      ( 2:52)
  02. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)                                         ( 6:13)
  03. It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)                                      ( 6:42)
  04. Porno                                                             ( 6:02)
  05. Afterlife                                                         ( 5:52)
  06. Supersymmetry                                                     (11:16)

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