2013-10-31
An interesting yet unsurprising follow-up to 2010's The Suburbs, Reflektor is another bloated, exploratory concept album from everyone's favorite Canadian chamber-alt turned mainstream outfit. This time, the record's storyline is centered around the harsh duality between connect/disconnect in the digital age; Arcade Fire has been touring not under their usual playful moniker but rather marauding around as "The Reflektors," a collective alter ego that indicates a statement along the lines of: "We are not entertainers, but mirrors! We are REFLEKTING the hideous truths of modern life to the listener!" Edgy.
KEN WILL MORTON
Slow Down
The Modern Savage
Unwilling Participants
Okkervil River
- The Stand-Ins
Cookie Bumstead & The Lonesome Space Cadets
Cookie Bumstead & The Lonesome Space Cadets
Hush Lane
What Becomes of Us
GIRLS
Father, Son, Holy Ghost
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