The Canadian band's sixth album tries to recapture the skyscraping arena-rock of their earlier efforts, with mixed results.
” turned off many in the band’s audience; it was the first of the group’s five LPs not to earn Pitchfork’s coveted Best New Music commendation.Now, five years later, Arcade Fire is back with its sixth full-length album, “We,” which is being framed as a return to its openhearted ways: an “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,” essentially, after a “Zooropa” and a “Pop,” to make the U2 comparison this crew was courting from the get-go.
Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, clockwise from left, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry. Which isn’t to say that Win Butler’s worries about the internet have suddenly been quelled. “Born into the abyss / New phone, who’s this?” he asks in his breathy yelp in “Age of Anxiety II ”; “We unsubscribe / F— Season 5,” goes a line in the final movement of “End of the Empire I-IV.” In “Lightning I, II” — hey, I warned you — he glimpses “tires … burning in the middle of Rodeo Drive,” just one scene from a striking dystopian vision.
Unlike “Reflektor” and “Everything Now,” “We” holds out hope that humans may yet remember how to connect in the flesh. “I’ll be yours / You can be mine / Love unites,” Chassagne sings in “Unconditional II ,” while Butler in the closing title track rhymes “get down on one knee” with “get off this ride with me.” “,” which the frontman addresses to his and Chassagne’s 9-year-old son, counsels faith in one’s physical body: “You can dance / And you can shake / Things will break / You make mistakes.
Arcade Fire’s promise from the beginning was transcendence through emotional grandeur. But “We” suggests that it’s hard to achieve communion without songs that lift voices and not just spirits.
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