Arcade Fire Returns With 'Pink Elephant,' First Album in Three Years
Along with a new single “Year of the Snake” that precedes the 10-track album.
Arcade Fire is back with its first album in three years. Returning with Pink Elephant, the album marks the band’s seventh studio album. The album is slated to release under Columbia Records and will feature 10 tracks.
While the band has remained a relatively low profile since frontman Win Butler faced sexual misconduct allegations in 2022, the band is back with its first release since 2022. Preceding its 10-track album, Arcade Fire also dropped a new single titled “Year of the Snake” alongside a set of cinematic visuals. According to the announcement, the album was produced by Butler, his wife and bandmate Régine Chassagne and Daniel Lanois.
The 10 songs “of cinematic mystical punk” usher Arcade Fire into a new era. The announcement further states that the album name refers to “that paradoxical effect where the effort to suppress a thought leads to it being impossible to avoid.” As for the single, it references the Lunar Year of the Snake, “which represents a time for renewal, positive transformation and new beginnings.” Take a look at the tracklist for Pink Elephant below. The album releases on May 9.
Pink Elephant
1. Open Your Heart or Die Trying
2. Pink Elephant
3. Year of the Snake
4. Circle of Trust
5. Alien Nation
6. Beyond Salvation
7. Ride or Die
8. I Love Her Shadow
9. She Cries Diamond Rain
10. Stuck In My Head
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