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Post by The Escapist on Jul 20, 2017 12:28:10 GMT -5
REVIEWS:
NME: 10/10
The Independent: 10/10
The Arts Desk: 10/10
Montreal Gazette: 9/10
Line of Best Fit: 8/10
Hot Press: 8/10
AU Review: 7.5/10 (The review reads A LOT more positive than the score)
Variety: Mixed, mostly positive
Now Toronto: 6/10
Consequence of Sound: C+
Average: 8.6/10
Excitingly, almost every single review has highlighted We Don't Deserve Love as a real standout. Can't wait to hear that tune.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jul 20, 2017 14:33:42 GMT -5
REVIEWS:
NME: 10/10 The Arts Desk: 10/10 Montreal Gazette: 9/10 Line of Best Fit: 8/10 Hot Press: 8/10 AU Review: 7.5/10 (The review reads A LOT more positive than the score) Variety: Mixed, mostly positive Now Toronto: 6/10 Consequence of Sound: C+ Average: 7.9/10That sounds about right to me based off the pre-album singles - excitingly, almost every single review has highlighted We Don't Deserve Love as a real standout. Can't wait to hear that tune. As does "Put Your Money On Me". |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jul 20, 2017 21:06:41 GMT -5
A surprise show announced in Brooklyn today for 7/27. Grand Prospect Hall. Will be streamed live on Apple Music and TV. I entered the raffle. Hope I win. No pun intended. 360 style stage. Lets do this!!!
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Post by The Escapist on Jul 21, 2017 2:42:56 GMT -5
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Post by The Invisible Sun on Jul 21, 2017 8:23:03 GMT -5
The songs released so far have took some getting used to, but I've enjoyed it. I think this will be a solid album. Just have to adjust expectations. Their sound evolved. And they've written a full album of nu-disco.
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Post by matt on Jul 21, 2017 15:48:16 GMT -5
Reading these reviews have got me stoked!
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jul 21, 2017 20:20:37 GMT -5
IT LEAKED!!!!!!!!!
#EverythingLeaks
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jul 21, 2017 20:54:52 GMT -5
I'm probably the biggest Arcade Fire guy on the forum and my first impression is this album is probably their weakest. A bunch of these songs just feel so minor and not worth album consideration, Peter Pan, Infinite Content, Infinite_Content. Chemistry sounds a lot better on the album than live. I'm glad about that but not sure of it overall yet. Its been 4 years. They should have had some better material to offer up. Having that been said, the singles are all killers for me and Put Your Money On Me and We Don't Deserve Love are very very very good. Not sure the band needed 3 versions of Everything Now on the album. That forever looping trick is old and not relevant in the digital age.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jul 21, 2017 23:04:19 GMT -5
Damn fine impressive run.........
Electric Blue
Good God Damn
Put Your Money On Me
We Don't Deserve Love
Wow.
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Post by oasisserbia on Jul 22, 2017 5:17:07 GMT -5
It seems that I should get high and then listen this album again.
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Post by The Escapist on Jul 22, 2017 8:27:02 GMT -5
Erm...pretty damn weak for Arcade Fire.
The Suburbs = 10
Funeral = 10
Reflektor = 8.5
Neon Bible = 8
Everything Now = 6
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Post by The Escapist on Jul 22, 2017 8:37:41 GMT -5
Everything_Now = 7
Everything Now = 8
Signs of Life = 6.5
Creature Comfort = 9
Peter Pan = 6
Chemistry = 6
Infinite Content = 5
Infinite_Content = 6
Electric Blue = 7
Good God Damn = 5
Put Your Money on Me = 7.5
We Don't Deserve Love = 8
Everything Now (Continued) = 9
Favourites definitely Creature Comfort and Everything Now (Continued) - like the title track and don't mind a few others. The rest are nothing songs. Feels like an album comprised entirely of "Flashbulb Eyes" or "Neon Bibles".
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Post by oasisserbia on Jul 22, 2017 9:36:34 GMT -5
After second listen, it sounds actually worse than after first listen. And I thought that it will grow. I guess that I thought that those weird songs in the middle of the album will grow in my heart as those weird songs that I like but now they seem more like lazy songwriting.
I like singles, especially EN and CC but it seems that there is nothing else that good on album. And even all the singles are not that good but ok, they can pass at least as ok album tracks.
And if they didn´t maintain that consistency in terms of quality of the songs, I expected to hear at least consistency in terms of feel of the album but I didn´t even hear that. I expected that great disco feel like in EN and CC.
And I just can´t forgive them Infinite Content 1 and 2. There are 13 songs on album but there are 3 versions of Everything Now and 2 versions of Infinite Content. So 10 songs basically. It sounds like something that they made for 5 minutes, like that record company told them that there are not enough songs on album and that they have 2 hours to come up with new song and record it. If they recorded double album, something like White Album, then this would be ok. Like that nobody gives a shit that much about Wild Honey Pie or Rocky Raccoon.
Peter Pan sounded interesting on first listen, on second listen sounds just shit. To be honest, I can´t even remember anything about Good God Damn, Put Your Money On Me, that tells enough about them.
We Don´t Deserve Love has few interesting moments, few big moments but then again, nothing special. It sounds like some song from new Killers or Kaiser Chiefs album and I don´t really give a shit about those bands for more then 7,8 years...
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 22, 2017 9:45:02 GMT -5
Everything_Now = 7 Everything Now = 8 Signs of Life = 6.5 Creature Comfort = 9 Peter Pan = 6 Chemistry = 6 Infinite Content = 5 Infinite_Content = 6 Electric Blue = 7 Good God Damn = 5 Put Your Money on Me = 7.5 We Don't Deserve Love = 8 Everything Now (Continued) = 9 Favourites definitely Creature Comfort and Everything Now (Continued) - like the title track and don't mind a few others. The rest are nothing songs. Feels like an album comprised entirely of "Flashbulb Eyes" or "Neon Bibles". I don't mind Flashbulb Eyes (though I do it wish they'd come up with another verse), but when I saw them in Manchester a few weeks back and they did a second encore that was just Neon Bible, after they'd ended their first - and, what I thought would be their only - encore with Wake Up, it was well weird and sorta killed the mood. To be fair to them, the final thing they did as they they exited the stage was sing Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart a cappella, which was a nice touch, but yeah, I don't get what Neon Bible was doing coming after Wake Up. Maybe the song means a lot to Win, or something... |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 22, 2017 9:49:27 GMT -5
Rocky Racoon is a tune.
Just saying.
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Post by The Escapist on Jul 22, 2017 10:13:24 GMT -5
Everything_Now = 7 Everything Now = 8 Signs of Life = 6.5 Creature Comfort = 9 Peter Pan = 6 Chemistry = 6 Infinite Content = 5 Infinite_Content = 6 Electric Blue = 7 Good God Damn = 5 Put Your Money on Me = 7.5 We Don't Deserve Love = 8 Everything Now (Continued) = 9 Favourites definitely Creature Comfort and Everything Now (Continued) - like the title track and don't mind a few others. The rest are nothing songs. Feels like an album comprised entirely of "Flashbulb Eyes" or "Neon Bibles". I don't mind Flashbulb Eyes (though I do it wish they'd come up with another verse), but when I saw them in Manchester a few weeks back and they did a second encore that was just Neon Bible, after they ended their first - and, what I thought would be their only - encore with Wake Up, it was well weird and sorta killed the mood. To be fair to them, the final thing they did as they they exited the stage was sing Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart a cappella, which was a nice touch, but yeah, I don't get what Neon Bible was doing coming after Wake Up. Maybe the song means a lot to Win, or something... I like Flashbulb Eyes too, but you don't want an album based around short, interlude-ish tracks like that. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jul 22, 2017 10:21:54 GMT -5
I definitely think Reflektor is better than Everything Now.
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Post by matt on Jul 22, 2017 11:03:14 GMT -5
Everything_Now = 7 Everything Now = 8 Signs of Life = 6.5 Creature Comfort = 9 Peter Pan = 6 Chemistry = 6 Infinite Content = 5 Infinite_Content = 6 Electric Blue = 7 Good God Damn = 5 Put Your Money on Me = 7.5 We Don't Deserve Love = 8 Everything Now (Continued) = 9 Favourites definitely Creature Comfort and Everything Now (Continued) - like the title track and don't mind a few others. The rest are nothing songs. Feels like an album comprised entirely of "Flashbulb Eyes" or "Neon Bibles". I totally dig Flashbulb Eyes and Neon Bible. I'm not listening to it until I get the CD but I hope I veer to the side of loving it. |
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Post by The Escapist on Jul 22, 2017 11:19:25 GMT -5
Everything_Now = 7 Everything Now = 8 Signs of Life = 6.5 Creature Comfort = 9 Peter Pan = 6 Chemistry = 6 Infinite Content = 5 Infinite_Content = 6 Electric Blue = 7 Good God Damn = 5 Put Your Money on Me = 7.5 We Don't Deserve Love = 8 Everything Now (Continued) = 9 Favourites definitely Creature Comfort and Everything Now (Continued) - like the title track and don't mind a few others. The rest are nothing songs. Feels like an album comprised entirely of "Flashbulb Eyes" or "Neon Bibles". I totally dig Flashbulb Eyes and Neon Bible. I'm not listening to it until I get the CD but I hope I veer to the side of loving it. I do too - but they work as less substantial interlude-ish tracks while surrounded by Here Come the Night Times and Interventions. Here, you get four of five of them in a row. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Jul 22, 2017 11:50:11 GMT -5
I don't get why AF needed 3 versions of Everything Now. I get the single version of Everything Now and the slower reprise at the end. I just don't understand the 40 second slow version that opens the album and fades into Everything Now the single. What purpose does that serve? Its the same as the final song on the album. Just book end the album with the single and slow versions. No need for another slow version at the top. And the Infinite Contents, infinitely not content bro!
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Post by The Escapist on Jul 22, 2017 11:57:46 GMT -5
I don't get why AF needed 3 versions of Everything Now. I get the single version of Everything Now and the slower reprise at the end. I just don't understand the 40 second slow version that opens the album and fades into Everything Now the single. What purpose does that serve? Its the same as the final song on the album. Just book end the album with the single and slow versions. No need for another slow version at the top. And the Infinite Contents, infinitely not content bro! I actually like all the Everything Nows. I feel like the "I'm in the black again..." melody is the most natural and catchy on the album. As for Infinite Content, the first is just the band throwing guitars at nothing, while the second is a nice languid moment that ends almost as soon as it starts. If they fleshed them both out more, it would be a decent six-minute centrepiece - as is, Extremely Limited Content. Also, Good God Damn might be the worst song they've ever done. That's not a chorus, Win, that's just you saying words. What do you think of Put Your Money on Me and We Don't Deserve Love? EDIT: The ending to this album is so epic and beautiful, I love it. THAT'S Arcade Fire. |
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Post by oasisserbia on Jul 22, 2017 12:18:06 GMT -5
Are there guest songwriters on this album? Because I can swear that Miles Kane wrote Infinite Content...
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 22, 2017 14:55:53 GMT -5
I don't mind Flashbulb Eyes (though I do it wish they'd come up with another verse), but when I saw them in Manchester a few weeks back and they did a second encore that was just Neon Bible, after they ended their first - and, what I thought would be their only - encore with Wake Up, it was well weird and sorta killed the mood. To be fair to them, the final thing they did as they they exited the stage was sing Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart a cappella, which was a nice touch, but yeah, I don't get what Neon Bible was doing coming after Wake Up. Maybe the song means a lot to Win, or something... I like Flashbulb Eyes too, but you don't want an album based around short, interlude-ish tracks like that. Maybe they've taken inspiration from Bowie's Low? The first side of that album is entirely made up of songs only a couple of minutes long that come in, are weird, and then fade out again. Paul Weller started the decade off with an album called Wake Up the Nation that went to great lengths to try and ape what Bowie (and Eno) did with that record. Knowing that Arcade Fire are also big Bowie fans, and how they intended to make an album of songs with shorter runtimes, before they ended up making Reflektor, I could see them going down a similar route. Are the tunes at least varied, sonically and stylistically? |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Jul 22, 2017 15:57:42 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2017 16:35:03 GMT -5
Well, that's not surprise but after two listens, I'm disappointed. Not that was waiting for a masterpiece, but maybe two or three tracks to save.
Except Creature Comfort which is rather alright, all the tracks seem uninspired. And I don't like that new direction they were already taking with Reflektor. But the most problematic is the songwriting: where are the melodies, Win ?
The positive thing is that it gave me the urge to listen to Funeral. A bonafide masterpiece.
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