the mantle of fanboydom
There's a new Arcade Fire track! The sound quality isn't great, but the song is:
Arcade Fire –Intervention
It's perhaps not the most mind-blowing thing they've ever recorded. But I'm glad to hear it for two reasons. First, it isn't a radical departure from their last album (I want more!). And second, it makes me think about what it'll be like to once again see Winn Butler singing it like he's never meant anything more, while the strings swell and the percussionists go crazy. More tour dates, please.
The above link is to a Coral Cache URL — it should hopefully work a little more snappily (and long-lastingly) than the original source, which still seems to be getting hammered (or maybe it's just my connection). If your network blocks port 8090, head to the source.
Via stereogum, who picked it up from a BBC show.





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I woke up on a groggy Saturday morning, sipped some coffee, checked my mousetraps, then checked Hype Machine for popular tracks that I might have missed by living in a Paper and Exam Bubble of Anxiety for the past week. And what the fuck do you know? New Arcade Fire! Listened to song at least ten times, then check your blog, and here it is too. Ahh. It's quite lovely, no?