Arcade Fire

Pink Elephant really isn't that good, is it... It's been a long time since they put out a truly exciting album, but Pink Elephant is - in my opinion - their weakest and for the first time it kind of feels like they're reaching the end of the line. Sometimes an artist will release an album that gets tepid reviews, but you can still feel that they, themselves, think it's a great album. Pink Elephant is a different case: I think they *know* it isn't good.

This new album is such a let down, I can't believe I am listening to the same band that gave me Funeral and Suburbs, There is no energy to Pink Elephant, it is just "there".

Name a band with a bigger fall from grace

The new album is effectively a Win and Regine side project and it should have been marketed as such. The full band is almost entirely absent from the album, and it shows, both in the instrumentation and in the quality of the songwriting. There are only two tracks for which any band members other than Win and Regine are credited for songwriting or recording. Pretty disappointing. I didn't think they could produce an album of lower quality than Everything Now, but this very well may have done it.

I like the songs proper from the new album, but it really feels more like an EP in disguise with the amount of fluff/atmospheric tracks.

PINK ELEPHANT 🤩

looove year of the snake

They were an untouchable force for the first 4 albums.

suicide postponed until may 9

too many people in this band

Funeral 4ever <3

First they suggest we unsubscribe; then they say ‘hey, download our totally cute exclusive app if you want to have a clue what we’re working on’

i've decided i hate these guys again bc i found out earlier they named their upcoming album THE SAME AS MINE. i am annoyed as all hell.

they only need to make music like "put your money on me"

Funeral is one of the greatest albums ever. Nothing will ever come close.

Reflektor is the last good album from them

New album is meh again, at first listen. I'll give it a try to determine whether it's better than the previous meh album or not...

Really looking forward to "Pink Elephant" AF are still one of my favourite bands of all time after all these years.

i want absolute cinema YOURE GETTING ABYSMAL DOGSHIT

What happened to this band’s timeline? Win’s behavior out of the equation here for a second here… 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵 is 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝. I don’t think Win has ever been a notably strong lyricist - that’s been made evident over the years - but it’s never felt more apparent than now. I hesitate to call the new album “AI does AF” because I genuinely believe that modern algorithms could spit out something with a little more intrigue and staying power than what we got with LP7. I could step up to bat for a good chunk of 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘰𝘸 (in all of its goofy-ass glory)… and to a lesser extent, even 𝘞𝘌 had at least a couple of tracks that clear the generously low bar of “maybe not awful?” But for me, it’s tough to hear this new record and not feel that Arcade Fire have become a caricature of themselves. Final verdict = none in the pink, all in the stink. If elephants never forget, it’s fitting that this has likely become my final stop on a 20-year bus ride, personally.

The two singles being the only good songs on the album

I love you guys so fuckin much!!

It's not THAT bad

Am I the only one who thinks the new album is really gooood? Come on! .)

Not their best by any stretch, but Pink Elephant definitely has some worthy songs.

This band has been bad since 2010, every release has been a disappointment since then, couldn't even listen to the new album for like 5 mins, such a bland toothless sound.

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the new album sucks :/

I never thought about Cars and Telephones having a studio recording one day.

this last album feels like the ideas are there, but the band isn't. if WE sounded like a flattened attempt to emulate the Funeral-Suburbs era and sound, here it looks like they are trying to bring back some of the Reflektor aesthetics, with the atmospheric interludes and synth-focused tracks, but everything just falls flat and forgettable. the total absence of creativity on some the melodies and instrumentations makes songs like Year Of The Snake, I Love Her Shadow and Circle Of Trust, which had a lot of potential, into a sea of blandness, and the second half of the album feels like some leftover demos that they had left on their phones but never put much thought into it, such a weak production. I never thought win's and regine's vocals could sound so uninspired like they sound here, it barely resembles the same people that gave us Sprawl II or It's Never Over. like WE, there are still some moments, but the soul of the band is gone. time for a hiatus or pause of some kind

I am in the minority in loving Pink Elephant, but I also loved EN and think WE is their weakest. But I love all their albums. PE is probably middle of the pack for me. I only really don't like Alien Nation and I Love Her Shadow.

Великая группа!

Hello fellow Arcadians, good day to y'all

It's been downhill since Funeral

More like Random Elephant am I right? 🥁🫸🫷

Добились, увы, нового достижения. Если на двух предыдущих альбомах можно было наскрести 0,5-1 нормальный трек, то здесь чистое ровное унылое ничего. Было предчувствие, что этот релиз будет на отъебись, так и вышло. Как будто подумали, что затягивать молчание будет не очень хорошо и что-то релизнуть да надо. Лучше бы уж молчали.

Nada supera Neon Bible e Funeral .

bem água de salsicha

Meh.

can't wait to listen the full album

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Estão vivos?

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nos deixaram tão cedo .. </3

They blew it with Reflektor. After winning the Grammy they were supposed to make their big leap into the mainstream. Like U2 with The Joshua Tree or R.E.M. with Out of Time. Maybe not another masterpiece but definitely something a little bit more accesible. In hindsight, it's obvious that a double album with that artwork, filled with their weakest stuff up to that point wasn't going to do much. The title track and Afterlife are the only songs worth keeping. It's quite sad to see how much they've fallen since. They were alongside Radiohead, Kanye and I guess The White Stripes the artists that were respected by pretty much every publication and site during the the first decade of this century. And now they have kind of vanished from those places. Win's "adventures" certainly didn't help. Those first 3 albums will remain untouchable though.

that steadily declining graph man... sheesh

vixe

Впечатляет, как (со стороны) легко им всё удавалось 10 лет и как легко они же после сдулись. Как будто были предназначены для конкретного времени, которое отлично зафиксировали (и которое я очень люблю, поэтому и всё до Reflektor'a включительно нареканий не вызывает, но ностальгическая вкусовщина тут неизбежна). Про недокэнселлинг даже начинать не буду, настолько он неуклюжий и настолько о нём мало внятной информации. Кажется, что эта история тоже скорее очень метко отражает, насколько группа была на волне и насколько скисла после — и будто бы недовольство бывших индюшатных почитателей, это во многом претензия не этического, а эстетического характера ("кем вы стали?!?!?!"). А этическое, как часто бывает, добавилось до кучи.

heard my dad bumping em in the car

o show no lollapalooza brasil foi muito emocionante, A Regine me abraçou, foi lindo.