Show notes
Send us Fan Mail Everything Now feels like a party you can’t leave and that’s the point. We hit play on Arcade Fire’s 2017 dance-rock album and let it wash over us: drum-machine pulse, glossy synths, hot horns, and that extra spark from Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk in the production mix. It’s a record that people love, hate, or love to hate, so we slow down and actually talk through what it’s doing and why it still feels uncomfortably current. We get into the album’s big themes: hyper-consu...