“Arcade Fire have spent a career making a virtue of their own pomposity. Since 2004 debut ‘Funeral’, they’ve been unafraid to wrestle with big ideas that most bands wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. If it sometimes appears as though they believe society’s ills can be solved, or at least diagnosed, through the medium of grandiose art-rock records, you nonetheless have to admire their conviction that”
“Our take on 'Everything Now,' the latest from the anthemic rockers”
“Arcade Fire's fifth album takes them here, there and everywhere”
“The Montreal band’s fifth album finds them in musical and lyrical stasis. The pale, joyless songs don’t transcend their social critique—they succumb to it.”
“The lead single and title track of ‘Everything Now’ – the one that sounds like ABBA, is all over the Radio 2 daytime playlist and just earned Arcade Fire their first number one on a US Billboard chart – is, beneath its gleaming strings and insistent four-square kick-drum thud, nothing more than the same 13-second melody repeated 24 times in a row. In a way, it’s a shame it’s only 24 times: if Arca”
“Everything Now finds Arcade Fire making a bolder and tighter move in a dance music direction than on Reflektor, but unfortunately it's even more of a mixed bag.”
