Arcade Fire - Pink Elephant

Arcade Fire’s seventh studio album arrives laden with both expectation and unease.

The band’s first full-length release since a very public reckoning with frontman Win Butler’s controversies, it’s an album that tries to process pain, redemption and reinvention.

At times it succeeds, but too often it stumbles under the weight of its own contradictions, both musically and morally.

Opening track ‘Open Your Heart Or Die Trying’ sets the scene for an inward-looking, cautious album.

An expansive sci-fi instrumental, it builds like a spaceship ascending, its eerie synth sirens rising and falling with epic tension. Immersive and evocative, it’s all dry ice and dread in musical form.

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