Arcade Fire on their new album

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by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 10 comments 13:31 June 28th, 2006

Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler has released a few details about the band's upcoming follow-up to 2004's Funeral through their website.

Win posted the following in the 'Win's Scrapbook' section of the site...

"Feeling excited and inspired, learning to play all these new instruments... well, mostly Regine is, to be honest! It's gonna be really interesting how we're going to fit all of these new sounds in a tour bus. This week we are recording a huge fucking pipe organ on two songs. What an incredible sound!"

Apparently, some fifteen tracks are in a state of near-completion, with a couple more being recorded in Regine and Butler's living room, "because the drums sound so great in there." Owen Pallett will take a break from his Final Fantasy commitments to appear on the album.

Arcade Fire also plan to record in Budapest with a full orchestra, which sounds exciting doesn't it?

Photo by Rob Webb

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Yes,

yes it does. Should be good :).

PossiblyMaybe | 28 Jun '06, 13:36 | X | Reply

Funeral

That's going to one hell of a record to follow up, isn't it?

Teepee_uk @PossiblyMaybe | 28 Jun '06, 13:37 | X | Reply

Are you just reading Pitchfork

then sticking up their news stories a day later?

The shame.

rspce @Teepee_uk | 28 Jun '06, 13:41 | X | Reply

Better drums this time please

and get a new singer

though i did love funeral when i came out his voice is beginning to jar - he'd NEVER get away with that if he was English

prole-art-threat @rspce | 28 Jun '06, 13:50 | X | Reply

Funeral is one of those records...

...where I just can't see how they top it.

If they TRY to top it (i.e. if that's at the back of their minds all the time), they'll fail. If they can just make it effortlessly without thinking about it, who knows?

Damian | 28 Jun '06, 14:23 | X | Reply