“Arcade Fire's lush, imaginative 85-minute fourth album is a triumph, but not a victory lap; the band never sounds content enough for that. Instead, Reflektor is an anxious, occasionally downright paranoid album that asks big, barbed questions aimed not just at the man who may or may not be upstairs, but the more terrestrial gods of rock history, too.”
“"If this is heaven/I need something more," Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, Arcade Fire's founding singers, declare in close, almost whispered harmony as the opening title song of their band's extraordinary new album goes into high gear. "Reflektor" is seven and a half busy minutes of art and party. Over a strident-disco hybrid of the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" and Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice”
“I've been on the fence about many albums this year, but this is one of the few where I'm torn.”
“Critics may argue but this is Arcade Fire’s best album. Making bold statements at its time of release, it is still such a legendary record. Literally almost no skips. The band truly peaked in this era. They write about being the outcasts in society and coping with life and death and sacrifice in the name of your beliefs, even selling your soul for them.”
“Some absolute bangers. But it really is too long”
