3 years after the previous record project “We”, The Canadian rock band Arcade Fire (Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Jeremy Race, Tim Kingsbury and Richard Reed Parry) has returned with a new single available from today digitally, “Year of the Snake“, Which anticipates their seventh record project,”Pink Elephant“(Columbia Records / Sony Music), coming out on May 9th.
“Pink Elephant”available from now to pre-order (link), is composed of 10 new tracks with a sound that alternates punk sounds with almost cinematic moments, with a total duration of 42 minutes, It is produced by Win Butler, Régine Chassagne and Daniel Lenois and recorded at the Good News Recording Studio of Win and Régine, in New Orleans.
The title of the album, “Pink Elephant“(Pink elephant)is linked to that paradoxical effect of doing everything in order not to think of a concept that however becomes impossible to avoid.
When he is listened to in his entirety, “Pink Elephant“ He invites the listener to a sound odyssey, a search for life, which exists within the perception of the individual, a meditation both on the darkness and on light, inner beauty. At each next listening, the levels of this epic journey reveal more and more to reveal new sizes.
The first song extracted from the album, “Year of the Snake”Is enriched by the enveloping heat of the rhegine voiceand sees for the first time in the history of the Arcade Fire Régine on bass and Win Butler on the battery. The title of the song refers to 2025, the snake's lunar yearwhich represents a moment of renewal, a positive transformation and a new beginning while the band changes again skin and reborn, however offering the unique and distinctive sound of Arcade Fire.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
