180 Gram Double Vinyl! Gatefold Jacket Printed on Rainbow Holographic Board!
2015 Grammy Award Nominee for:
Best Alternative Music Album
Arcade Fire is an indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with WillButler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. The band came toprominence in 2004 with the release of their critically acclaimed debut albumFuneral.
Arcade Fire has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of theYear (they hold the distinction of being the only musical group to have wontheir first and only Grammy in that category), the 2011 Juno Award for Album ofthe Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album for their thirdstudio album, The Suburbs, released in 2010 to critical acclaim and commercialsuccess. In earlier years they won the 2008 Meteor Music Award for BestInternational Album and the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Yearfor their second studio album, Neon Bible. They also received nominations forthe Best Alternative Music Album Grammy for all three of their studio albums.The band’s work has also been twice named as a short list nominee for thePolaris Music Prize in 2007 for Neon Bible and in 2011 for The Suburbs, winningthe award for The Suburbs.
The band plays guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, doublebass, xylophone, glockenspiel, keyboard, French horn, accordion, harp, mandolin,and hurdy-gurdy, and take most of these instruments on tour; themulti-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows.
With a penchant for theatrical, bombastic anthems, Montreal’s Arcade Fire hasamassed a broad loyal following without compromising their singular artisticvision. Reflektor is Arcade Fire’s 4th official studio album. It is the highlyanticipated follow up to the 2011 Grammy-winning album of the year, The Suburbs.The double album was produced by the band, LCD Soundsystem front man JamesMurphy, and long-time collaborator, Markus Dravs.
“[T]his is a band that headlines festivals and tops award shows now, and thepaths of least resistance would be to double-down on their sound or swerve hardinto pop radio. ‘Reflektor’ does neither. The single is a triumph of haunteddisco, the groups signature dread smoothed across seven minutes of slow-burnrhythm instead of inflated to dangerously melodramatic arena-rock heights.”– David Greenwald, editor for Billboard, Consequene of Sound
“In the wake of Daft Punks ‘Get Lucky’, Arcade Fire re-emerge with their ownpair of dancing shoes yet theyre still clenching onto the smoky art schoolgravitas thats got them this far unscathed… [I]ts the songs [Reflektor]twist on 70s New York art-punk that has us reeling.” – Michael Roffman,Consequence of Sound
“Like a highly trained professional assassin, Arcade Fires new track, ‘Reflektor’crept into my ears under a cool blanket of disco darkness. Calm, confident, andready for the kill, it quickly establishes its strong foundation within apulsating disco almost 70s afro beat rhythm section. Its a sound that seems sofamiliar and at the same time like nothing youve ever heard before. They havenever been the type to follow trends and are clearly still marching to the beatof their own drum.” – Matt Shultz (Cage the Elephant), Consequence of Sound
Features:
180 Gram Vinyl
Double LP
Limited Time MP3 Download Card
Gatefold Jacket printed on Rainbow Holographic Board
Selections:
1. Reflektor
2. We Exist
3. Flashbulb Eyes
4. Here Comes the Night Time
5. Normal Person
6. You Already Know
7. Joan of Arc
8. Here Comes the Night Time II
9. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)
10. It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)
11. Porno
12. Afterlife
13. Supersymmetry
