Album Rating: 2.6

Next up is Linkin Park’s A Thousand Suns??

one of the very few records worse than the 2nd Law yes

Album Rating: 1.5

the 2nd law has its moments tbh

T2L and a thousand suns both run on overheated bombast in service of furtive Themes And Commentary but they both also have the decency to not try and outsmart the listener and are therefore better than this

Album Rating: 2.5

Will their new song on Thursday be good?

First single out, new album "We" produced by Nigel Godrich(!):

https://consequence.net/2022/03/arcade-fire-new-album-we-the-lightning-i-ii-stream/

Album Rating: 2.5

Wait these are good

Album Rating: 2.5

Wait these are really good

This band has a lot of nerve putting out a song that good after an album as bad as this

Album Rating: 2.5

And thank god because I thought they were gonna end it on this

Album Rating: 3.5

Yes, new song is just wonderful. It has The Suburbs vibes.

New song is awesome. Might get me back into them finally

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Song's fine, but I can't help but feel they're officially major label "indie" on this, what with the Suburbs rehashing. They were teetering for a while.

Album Rating: 1.0

it's at least good enough for me to give em a shake, which felt unlikely to be possible again after this dung heap

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Anything would be better than this

like the Suburbs wasn't 123% major label indie vibes to begin with

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

How I miss those major label indie vibes

Album Rating: 2.5

Same

wasn't into this nor reflektor, but their first 3 albums are all aces

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

@Johnny exactly. Suburbs was their breakthrough commercially. And they're retreating away from their space disco alt dance bullshit back into 2010s heartland land.

But after you soundtrack a Disney movie, you can't go back.