Arcade Fire - Everything Now (July 28,2017) Album • Page 16

We Don't Deserve Love is excellent, too.

 

It's really only the middle of the album that needs help. I fuck with tracks 1-4 and 9-13

 

Already not really feeling the urge to revisit the album as a whole a ton but I do love "We Don't Deserve Love" and "Put Your Money on Me"

 

Yeah, the Infinite Content tracks are grating on repeat listens. Once you've heard them once, it's all you need. But I like Peter Pan enough to keep going back to it, and I can't stop flip-flopping on Chemistry. I feel like those two are bizarrely a little Clash inspired, and I can get down with that.

But regardless, I pretty much love the rest.

 

Yeah Peter Pan isn't terrible but idk how many times I can get through Chemistry or IC.

 

"Peter Pan" and "Infinite Content" are worse because of the sequencing. I actually don't mind IC. But listening to those 4 tracks in a row is pretty tough.

 

Infinite Content is bad in both iterations. it's a song built entirely on a terrible turn of phrase

 

Arcade Fire flogging branded fidget spinners for $110

Literally #fakenews and intended as a comment on 'woah, society these days, man', but so fucking tryhard and unnecessary. Weirdly I'd have more respect for them if they followed through, but I mean, even shit as risible as this is still better than the album. They're just embarrassing themselves at this point.

 

I feel like getting mad at that is akin to being mad at Kanye West for titling a song "I am a God (ft God)"

 

Speaking of Kanye...

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Is Cool With Father John Misty’s Taylor Swift Line (But Not Kanye’s) | Pitchfork

Hmm, I wonder why he has no problem with FJM's lyric but calls the, well, infamous line from Famous 'strange and not right'. Hmm.

 

...because contextually FJM's line is a lot less problematic than Kanye's?

 

2018 FJM album is going to be titled "Arcade Fire" calling it now

 

I can see him doing that and making songs called like Rebellion (Lies) and Intervention but they're not covers he just used the title

 

It's just gonna be a Ryan Adams/1989-style re-do of this album

 

This album by itself is bad enough. This album as performed by Father John Misty might kill me.

 

I mean thematically this is basically Total Entertainment Forever: The Album

 

This is a really great interview. The ending is pretty emotional, too.

 

Craig should be forced to watch that interview

 

Yea I loved that interview. Very insightful on the creative process for the record. Nice to get everything from the horses mouth and not just a bunch of music critics.

 

This is the only take. It isn't clever, doesn't say anything novel about this generation of music or music fans and doesnt need to happen twice.

I love this band and really dislike this album. Feels like they squared to bunt and popped out. Ugh

 

It just stumbles so badly in the middle. The intro through Creature Comfort is fine enough, but Peter Pan through Good God Damn is such a slog. It does improve at the end with Put Your Money on Me and We Don't Deserve Love, however.

It definitely comes across like they were stretching to get the album finished. There's really only an EP's worth of material here.

 

Gotta say.. They sounded pretty fucking great on Colbert last night..

 

That Creature comfort video is great.

Man do I love Put Your Money on Me. Perfect balance of patient and anthemic.

 

Yeah that's a great tune.

I've returned to this a few times which is a few more times than I expected.

 

I've been enjoying the album the more time I've spent with it. I definitely read too much about it before its release, which I know I shouldn't do. I've had "Electric Blue" on repeat for the past couple of days.

I feel like so many journalists or whatever are so quick to take things down without spending the proper amount of time with them first. The band spent what, like three years working on this album? Every detail of it was likely labored over. There's a reason they did everything. There are certain bands/artists where it's just really hard for me to believe they would phone it in or put something out they know isn't up to par. They're clearly capable artists. Maybe some don't agree with their judgment or certain artistic decisions, but what they put into it should still be taken into account. It's not like they threw something together to make the label happy. When signing their most recent record deal (probably every record deal in their case), they held the chips. They've always been able to maintain ownership over their music while licensing it to the labels. I think they would release nothing over releasing something they didn't believe in.