Album Review: Arcade Fire - Everything Now (+ Album Stream)

The release of a new Arcade Fire record is often preceded by a complex and subversive marketing campaign. From fake bands (The Reflektors) to viral art campaigns (Neon Bible), the band relish pulling apart and reimagining themselves. The rolling out of fifth record, Everything Now has been no exception with an ever-present, tongue-in-cheek derision of consumerism and ‘content consumption’. In a somewhat genius move, the band also reviewed its own record on mock site stereoyum.com, simultaneously pre-empting boilerplate criticism and parodying record review tropes (that’s right, I just reviewed a review of reviews – how’s that for content?!)....

Click here to read Paul Larsen's full review, and stream Everything Now below...