Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Just listened to this for the first time and it was a special fucking experience. It's Never Over is awesome

the problem i assume with Arcade fire and their audience is they will never create something like funeral again, and because of that some of their audience will forever be displeased

Album Rating: 4.0

The towering debut syndrome is not exclusive to Arcade Fire. But agreed.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Screw that Neon Bible and Suburbs aren't even that much worse than Funeral.

Album Rating: 3.5

yes but why creating another album trying to be like Funeral? NB tried it and failed(not entirely ofc). So the only possible choice for them is to expand. And AF is one of the few bands who do that very well

Album Rating: 4.0

This album is indeed very adventurous and expansive. Disappointing some of your fans with this rather drastic change of style is to be expected I guess.

Well IMO what made arcade fire, arcade fire is the the scale of emotion which was seen in Funeral... it was so vast reaching from areas and extensions of highs to lows that it was able to grasp a mainstream appeal despite having a style typically unappealing to what the masses usually seek.. thats true art for you

lol @ pitchforky, no publication goes through and says "this song riffs hard, this one is different because it has piano." Imagine if an art critic analyzed a Picasso by saying "well, there's some naked girls, but they don't really look human, standing in front of a brown background. The brushstrokes are really cool but sometimes they're distracting. One of the women doesn't really have a face, it's more like a mask. I didn't really get that part." Dude would get villified.

Album Rating: 4.5

Did I ever do that? I tried to talk about the album in terms of its aesthetics, just like one would discuss a work of art.



Edit: I'm sincerely asking, not defending my review.

that always depends on what audience you write for

I didn't read the review, I was just talking in general terms

I mean, you kind of do that just because you generalize so much. Read the last line of your review:

Reflektor is unabashedly bloated, ambitious, and indulgent; an imperfect, yet meticulously calculated masterpiece.

What do you say that would allow me to arrive at that conclusion?

Album Rating: 4.5

I ended it rather abruptly. A more robust conclusion would have been better, I agree.



However, there is support:



"bloated"/ "indulgent" :

"across the combined 13 tracks and 75 minute run time"

"seeing as a large number of them have a runtime of over five minutes, there is sufficient room for sonic exploration"



"ambitious" :

The whole review.



"meticulously crafted" :

"The record plays out almost like a well-put-together mix-tape; not bound by any singular style, but nonetheless carefully calculated in its progressions"

"Murphy’s artistic sway is subtle and diversely distributed throughout the album’s various sonic backdrops"

Album Rating: 3.0

album doesn't live up to the title track, but it's better than neon bible and the production is perfect

Album Rating: 4.0

production is ridiculously crisp agreed.

SUCKS

Well heres your problem,: you had to go out and pick individual sentences that describe your review's main points. you should be dropping paragraphs about them. Kinda the point of having main points

Also, not sure how an album can be called ambitious if half of it sounds like their old work but w/e I've never tried to love Arcade Fire and probably never will so I'll take your word for it

Album Rating: 4.0

Where does this sound like funeral?

Album Rating: 4.5

Half of it "recalls" some sonic flourishes from their old work, not sounds like their old work- there's a significant difference there. Very few bands release new albums and completely disregard the styles that defined them prior. And if they do, it's usually not very good.



This is still an Arcade Fire album, with many of the things people like about Arcade Fire. Does that mean it can't be ambitious?

idk, tell me in more than one sentence