Album Rating: 1.0

This album has to set some sort of record for highest average on metacritic whilst having so many mixed and negative reviews.

honestly please explain to me why this isnt good.

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

Read through the comments

Bands are getting really bad with the album titles....

Album Rating: 1.5

All the more reason Metacritic is bullshit

I want my funeral-neon bible era back

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

can they go away

I only recognise only a few bands from Canada which are good and it's sad to say it.

LOL the Rolling Stone review of this

Lol the Rolling stone reviews

Did they give it a 4-5? bleh

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

Rolling Stone is utter garbage. Only well-established acts get above a 3.5 there, and then once they decide an act is one of their favorites they get a 4 no matter what, as is the case with this album. Also if an act released a classic album in the 60s or 70s their new stuff gets an automatic 5 star.

Album Rating: 2.0

I've listened a few more times...

Still looking for

Signs of Life

in Win's vocals.

Good God Damn

there's just no

Chemistry

One time I spent about 4 hours digging through the Rolling Stone review archives on their website. Fun fact, I couldn't find a single review giving an album less than 2 stars. They're such fucking milquetoasts they couldn't even write a negative review of "Lulu".

Album Rating: 3.0

Wow Chemistry and Infinite Content(s) are really bad. The rest seems OK, but certainly not great.



BTW great Canadian bands: DFA1979, PUP, Tokyo Police Club... um there are lots more but my memory is fucking shot

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm with Ocean of Noise on this; I like it a lot. I get why people hate it, but it's pathetic and sad how people were looking for an opportunity to tear Arcade Fire apart and take them off the scope of the indie scene, both fan and critics.



It's obvious to me that the advertising campaign was just the band fucking around and having fun... It's not some huge statement. The band had resources and felt like indulging and taking the piss. The music here also sounds like them having fun, and I'm having fun with it so I really can't hate it. There's also genuinely emotionally touching moments here for me but don't give my thoughts much weight; I'm a diehard AF fan.



It's still within and well in their comfort zone to release a better album. Reflektor was a stressful process for them; Not only they were working on Reflektor, but also the Her soundtrack all while Regine was pregnant. This album is them blowing off some steam and them having fun. The fact that people are trying to turn it into an official statement about how Arcade Fire have finally fallen off or some bs is sad.

Album Rating: 3.0

^ I have absolutely no stakes or real interest in Arcade Fire, and came into this album with a clean slate. I think there's a lot of cool ideas on this and I'm not opposed to their direction, it's just... man, some of the songs aren't great.

Album Rating: 2.0

My problem with this is that AF is really not just marketing themselves as only having a bit of fun. My experience is that they employ this huge marketing and songs with fun experiments, but with the intent of also veering toward the political and emotional. They're not just mucking about, they DO have something they want to express. I think this was handled better on Reflektor (now that's a fun release). But here the lyrics and thematic ideas are so incredibly superficial it turns obnoxious because the band's doing so much promotion based on ironic juxtaposing, as well as the seeming lack of irony on many of the tracks. It doesn't gel. Instrumentally there's a lot to like here (aside from the awful reggae-attempts), but Win and Regine just sound lifeless.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, it's totally your right to believe that and if that's your thoughts on the album; That's that and I respect it. Some people have just been really snobbish and dismissive of the band as a whole and as people after this album and that's the upsetting bit.



It's become less about the music and more about orchestrating this huge vendetta against the band within a lot of music circles and communities and I'm not a fan of that, I really don't get it... Whatever.



I understand the criticisms about the music but I love a large majority of songs here, ngl. 4.0 feels right.

Album Rating: 2.0

i hope this isn't a criticism of the review, i didn't mean for it to come across like i had a vendetta against the band. i don't, appreciate your perspective, though.