Reflektor Reviews

The first thing you think about while you are preparing to hear the new album by Arcade Fire, one of the most anticipated of this work , 2013, is that it would be nice to have something more than a tracklist and awareness of the presence of James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem ) and Markus Dravs , already at work on Neon Bible and The Suburbs , as producers. To tell you the truth David Bowie has confirmed , via Facebook, that he had lent his beautiful voice to the individual who gives the title to the entire album, an incredible piece that he had made up immediately the fever of fans. As always, though , it's up to settle (so to speak ...) of the two disks - CD also will be a double , not so much for the length , but for the desire to create two different plays , like a vinyl - and crush play to understand to what extent it is the parable of the Canadian band .

Reflektor of the piece , you'll know everything now , by the participation of Bowie, the amazing video of Anton Corbijn with cameo by Bono and Ben Stiller, to the production of sparkling disk Murphy, who seems to have dragged on the ground dear to Canadians its LCD Soundsystem. The difficult , at this point , you do not get caught by the enthusiasm but, as often happens , we think the same Arcade Fire to dampen the enthusiasm with which We Exist on a bass line to Billie Jean , attempts to replicate the atmosphere the previous song, but failed to capture the excitement of a dance floor. The same thing happened the next Flashbulb Eyes and begins to make his way the belief that the constant references to certain eighties - those undeniable Talking Heads Remain In Light of more world and the masterpiece My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts of the couple Byrne / Eno - are one of the elements on which will rest Reflektor . The easy prophecy is confirmed by the excellent Normal Person , finally lived up to expectations , which comes after a classic to AF as Here Comes The Night Time , more connected to the atmosphere that we have known in Neon Bible and The Funeral . The excitement of the turning Eighties and rhythmic continues with You Already Know , almost swinging, with a refrain that is printed immediately to mind , and with Joan Of Arc , which starts almost punk and then develops as a nice mid-tempo indie rock , with a song in French .

Time to change CD (or turn the vinyl, you see ... ) and Here Come The Night Time II introduces us in a soft - and even a little ' useless , to be honest - in a series of songs very articulate , almost all of the six minutes in duration , with the band still hang out in a clear manner with the Talking Heads, as in the case of the excellent Afterlife and is influenced by the brilliant ideas of Murphy in it's Never over ( Oh Orpheus ) , the high point of the second disk . The rest flows through the final impalpable Supersymmetry , in the odor of U2 , the possible single Porno , electronic and engaging, and Awful Sound (Oh, Eurydice ) , yet a remnant of the past. Graduate? Of course, and even with good grades. Masterpiece ? Not yet, unfortunately ...