They tell Arcade Fire By defining the title of its new album that the term “pink elephant” refers to this paradoxical effect in which the effort to suppress a thought leads to it is impossible to avoid it. This could lead to the controversies that everyone imagines later of the facts denounced contra Win Butler Three years ago, of those who never knew. Everything has been wrapped in a kind of taboo that has made many look every new step of the Canadians with some suspicion.
If we stick to the musical, this Pink Elephant It keeps the group trapped in a strange point of indefinition they seem not to know where to leave. Gone is the megalomaniac but brilliant Reflector (2013), who did not even approach in the irregular WE (2022), nor in the dispersed Everything Now (2017). It was a last top either in this new installment of “mystical mystical punk” with its lights and their shadows.
On the one hand, the desire to try to transcend based on an art-rock nothing is grateful, searched vericuetos and bankruptcies to each of the ten songs that seem wrapped by an aura of mysticism. Butler y Régine Chassagne They are accompanied by the reputed Daniel Lanoisknown for building solid atmospheres next to the great Brian Eno For their unattainable U2. From the start with the instrumental “Open Your Heart or Die Trying” they intend to take us to that “meditation on darkness and light, the inner beauty” that prayed its promo sheet. It is not the only voiceless piece, they are also “Beyond Salvation” and “She Cries Diamond Rain” in the same coordinates doing very much interludes Lanois, by the way.
The mantra works for a while, such as when they address the leisurely and brilliant title song almost cast with that first song. Everything seems to take off with the growing urgency of “Year of the Snake”, one of his most rounding singles since times of The Subrbs (201o) or with the nanana motorik “Circle of Trust” (where Butler compared to Icar) that brings them closer to Pet Shop Boys. From here the album inflates and disinflans in a recurring way. They shine again in the intimate “Ride or die” or with the Pop Dance of “I Love Her Shadow”, an epic love song about someone who “He broke myself in hammers.”
On the other side of the balance the synthesized spark of “alien nation” stays in a looting to Nine Inch Nails of those who could ask Chat GPT, not to mention that excessively elongated and final recharged in “Stuck in My Head” in which Butler He moves his mental health problems to his run over.
Diez Seven new songs that know us little and leave us with the feeling that they have not surprised us too long.
Escucha Arcade Fire – Pink Elephant
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