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Arcade Fire Returns With REFLEKTOR
The culmination of a weeks long viral marketing campaign, the clock struck 9pm on 9/9 last night, and as expected, Arcade Fire was behind it all, promoting their new album Reflektor.
Reflektor, their fourth album following 2010’s Grammy winning The Suburbs, will be a double-album featuring 13 songs. Produced by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, the first single from the album was released last night as well, a track titled - appropriately enough - “Reflektor”.
The song runs just over seven minutes, and feels like a late-era Talking Heads jam. Â Ever the productive bunch, the Canadian band has release not just one, but two music videos for the track.
The standard video, directed by Anton Corbjin, is a dark, black and white noir and is embedded below.
For something a little more interesting, following the “We Used To Wait” interactive experience called “The Wilderness Downtown”, Arcade Fire reteamed with Vincent Morisset for an HTML 5 heavy app called “Just a Reflektor”, which allows you to interact with a unique video experience using your cellphone and mouse.  A trailer for that video is below, and you can experience it for yourself at JustAReflektor.com.
But what’s all the hype without an album? Reflektor is available for pre-order in vinyl, CD and digital formats now, and will officially be released on October 29th.
Tuesday September 10, 2013