Splashed by the controversy generated by the accusations against Win Butler who came to light three years ago, under this context born “Pink Elephant”seventh album of Arcade Fire. One for which the knead of farewells and feelings of guilt emerge in a form, natural or forced, throughout a dozen songs that, except in specific times, no longer live on the excess epic load that almost always defined their most remembered hits.
Precisely, the hand of a producer with Daniel Lanois’s environmental facet helps to reduce this emphasis and focus more from containment and serenity, as evidenced in an example as an example as an example like “Year Of The Snake”where, despite its enervated final stretch, it is always anchored to a premise by which to open the hatch of lyrical monumentality is never the option chosen at any time.
With this base, an exempt journey of hooks with sufficient magnetism is set, even with totally aseptic samples such as “Alien Nation” o “Ride Or Die”. As a curiosity, it is still representative that the presence of Lanois copper force majeure through instrumental pieces that seem of its own harvest as “Open Your Heart Or Die Trying”, “She Cries Diamond Rain” o “Beyond Salvation”.
Other cuts like “I Love Her Shadow” They sound even disturbing, knowing Butler’s background. A Fandom Obsession story that, in the musical, brings them closer than ever to a natural progression towards the most twilight U2. The latter is not that they especially invite optimism, although it is true that they still exhale some attraction from the recollection addressed, except when they can no longer endure tension and release it in another sample of anodine grandiloquence such as in “Stuck In My Head”, Closing in ascent for an album that, both for its precedents and for its general tough sensation, is born half dead from the same day of its publication. That does not mean that the first face is more than usable, although far from the grandeur’s measure from which they set such an outstanding works, and already very distant, such as “The Suburbs” (10).
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