Arcade Fire are in disarray now. Their overweening hubris and insatiable ambition eventually tearing them apart. Will Butler, the younger brother of the ludicrously named Win saw the oncoming iceberg and abandoned ship a while back/ Now he's returning to the Pop fray with Sister Squares and an eponymous album.
It's full of that early Eighties Pop Gloss that Arcade Fire favoured throughout ther career with slightlt variable results. Will was born in 1982 but this sounds as if it was in the charts then.
I was coming of age in that year. I didn't really go for it to a hyge degree then, much preferring Echo & the Bunnymen's bristling guitars to Blue Zoo or the slimmed down Thompson Twins linn drum artificiality.This is an exercise in nostalgia essentially for something that wasn't real in the first plce in much the same way as Stranger Things is. It's not really my party. It will be for some.
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