Le Flâneur

This week I have been mostly listening to Arcade Fire’s new album ‘Neon Bible’. If you liked their first album you’ll almost certainly like this one. I think it’s fabulous. What a great band. After their first album they bought a church in which to record this one. It worked as there are some amazing sounds on it; in particular a majestic organ on the track ‘intervention’ that just hits you in the chest.

There was a good bit in Paul Morley’s long and gushing interview in Observer Music Monthly last weekend about watching them play in Manhattan. Apparently David Byrne and Lou Reed were seated in a sort of exclusive press box. Maybe they’d both received one of David Bowie’s complimentary copies of their first album that he allegedly bought in bulk to give to friends. No emotion or reaction registered on Lou Reed’s face throughout the entire gig. Maybe that’s because he was freaked out by Morley staring at him the whole time.

This entry was posted by Chris on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 at 2:45 pm and is filed under Music.