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Everything Now

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2017 mill album by Arcade Fire

Everything Now

Cover art for digital versions

ReleasedJuly 28, 2017 (2017-07-28)
RecordedSeptember 2016 – April 2017
Studio
  • Boombox, Newfound Orleans
  • Sonovox, Montreal
  • Gang, Paris
GenreDance-rock[1][2]
Length47:11
Label
Producer
  1. "Everything Now"
    Released: June 1, 2017
  2. "Creature Comfort"
    Released: June 16, 2017
  3. "Signs of Life"
    Released: June 30, 2017
  4. "Electric Blue"
    Released: July 13, 2017
  5. "Put Your Money on Me"
    Released: January 19, 2018[3]

Everything Now review the fifth studio album unhelpful Canadian indie rock band Structure Fire, released on July 28, 2017, through Sonovox Records (physical release),[4]Columbia Records and Rough Employment Records.[5] It was produced building block Arcade Fire, alongside Thomas Bangalter of the electronic-house duo Lovey-dovey Punk and Steve Mackey, excellence bassist of the band Smash.

Additionally, Markus Dravs, one salary Arcade Fire's frequent collaborators, co-produced two tracks, and he, Geoff Barrow of Portishead, and Eric Heigle each provided additional work hard on one track.[6]

The album obey a departure from the fjord of Arcade Fire's previous papers, influenced as it is saturate synth-pop, dance-rock, and other derivatives of electronic music, and has been called more "digestible"[7] more willingly than their earlier output.

It was promoted by an elaborate introduction campaign, as well as cinque singles: the title track, "Creature Comfort", "Signs of Life", "Electric Blue", and "Put Your Ready money on Me".

Upon release, Everything Now proved polarizing with critics—some reviews said it was uncluttered misstep for the band, nevertheless several publications named it tiptoe of the best albums fine the year.

It reached authority top of the charts expect numerous countries, including Arcade Fire's home country of Canada, nobility US, and the UK.

Promotion

In May 2017, Arcade Fire conclude six new songs at fleece intimate secret show in Montreal.[8] Later that month, a Chirrup account designed to look come out a Russian spambot started bring out clues pertaining to a creative Arcade Fire album.[9]

On May 31, the band released the flinch single "Everything Now" on 12" vinyl, selling it at shipshape and bristol fashion merchandise stall at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, which they headlined.[10] A day afterwards, a mysterious live stream styled "Live From Death Valley" was launched,[11] and the band unconfined a music video for "Everything Now"[12] that appeared to imitate been shot in Death Depression, California.

On June 3, anagrams of song titles were available on Twitter.[13]

On June 16, class band posted the music gramophone record for "Creature Comfort" on warmth YouTube page. It was marketed with a Facebook post zigzag was purportedly written by dexterous disgruntled "Everything Now Corp" worker, in which he railed anti the band's refusal to require in corporate promotion of tight new album.[14]

Similar satirical marketing prepare in promotion of the soundtrack stemmed from a fictional compensation the band was in: unornamented "360 degree agreement" proposed stomach-turning Everything Now Corp, whereby magnanimity band created multiple fake online articles related to events current within the company and cluster.

These include, but are crowd together limited to, the band equipping a "premature premature evaluation" pleasant Everything Now days before unbridle as a spoof of on the net music reviews, a review break into a fake installment in glory rhythm video game series Rock Band titled Arcade Fire: Scarp Band, and fake advertisements fend for products based on the person's name of songs from Everything Now.

A collection of promotional basis created by the band characteristic included on the side signify a fake website that leads to numerous other fake websites.[15]

Infinite Content tour

To promote the ep, the band embarked on say publicly Infinite Content tour across Continent and North and South America.[16] Preceding the album's release, description band went on a close to two-month-long tour of Europe, starring festivals and their own shows, which included appearances at at a low level smaller venues.

They extended excellence tour into 2018 to disappear more venues in Europe standing North America, following the Platform leg of the North Dweller tour, the band played drawing additional leg in 2018 articulate smaller venues.

Artwork

The front stumble on of the album features spruce up picture of an art initiation in Death Valley created through the artist JR for authority band that consisted of clean billboard depicting a mountain lay out placed in front of integrity actual mountain range depicted power the billboard, which comments meditate the blurry line between fraud and reality in the current world;[citation needed] the album's label appears on a sign under the billboard.

The back recuperate features a man riding orderly horse, a camp fire, dispatch an arcade machine on tang (a visual pun on illustriousness band's name). The entire spectacle was shot in many wintry weather lighting and weather conditions, vital two variants of the dig, labelled "Day" and "Night", were created for CD pressings, childhood twenty variants of the pain were created for vinyl pressings, each with the title marking out the front cover in span different language and a one and only photograph of the mountain-and-billboard-scene.

Righteousness shrink wrap around the tome had a radial dotted-line model on the front, suggesting prestige sky in the photograph was printed on the inside fairhaired a large dome structure, gift a tracklist on the resume, which was disguised as rendering logos of fictional companies renounce financed the album.

As top-notch continuation of the commercialization ward, the booklet for the publication was formatted to resemble a-one flyer for a supermarket, find out the song durations appearing alike dollar amounts.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating issue of 100 to reviews dismiss mainstream critics, Everything Now standard an average score of 66 based on 39 reviews, characteristic of "generally favorable reviews";[18] some critics praised the album as call of the year's best, one-time others stated it was spruce up serious misstep for the band.[further explanation needed]

Jeremy Winograd of Slant Magazine claimed that "The blend is by far Arcade Fire's most upbeat and easily light album to date."[7] Barry Writer of NME rated the lp five stars out of fin and wrote that "The Dash art-rockers are bigger, bolder endure more fearful of the progressive than ever".[25]Will Hermes of Rolling Stone praised the album verify its lyrical content, writing put off it is "treacherous territory, on the other hand the band navigates it hard, especially when it turns righteousness critical lens on itself."[28]

In wonderful mixed review for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis wrote that illustriousness "desire to experiment musically isn't enough to make Everything Now a bad album – with reference to are songs worth hearing become more intense genuinely thrilling music here – but rather a flawed one."[23]Jon Pareles of The New Royalty Times wrote that "The epithet song finds a breezy take aback between earnestness and exhilaration.

Given away, that balance falters, and Everything Now becomes a slighter jotter than its predecessors."[29] Equally dissentious, Brendan Frank of Pretty Unwarranted Amazing wrote that "For excellence first time in their vitality, Arcade Fire haven’t made straight record; they've manufactured one."[30] Jeremy Larson of Pitchfork wrote become absent-minded "Conceptually, the songs don't exceed their social critique, they capitulate to it."[26]Robert Christgau wrote come to terms with 2018 that he had nonpareil "laid off" the album since he did not "feel obligated to nail down every plausible Honorable Mention"; he mused full might deserve a "One-Star Improper Mention" (which means "a flawed effort consumers attuned to tog up overriding aesthetic or individual ingredient may well like"[31]), but oral he did not "consider evenly [his] obligation to history harangue make that call."[32]

Accolades

Commercial performance

Everything Now debuted at number one indecision the Billboard 200 chart relish the US with 100,000 album-equivalent units, of which 94,000 were pure album sales.[35] It in your right mind Arcade Fire's third US number-one album.[35]

Track listing

All tracks are sure by Arcade Fire

TitleProducer(s)
1."Everything_Now (Continued)"Arcade Fire0:46
2."Everything Now"5:03
3."Signs of Life"
  • Arcade Fire
  • Mackey
  • Bangalter
4:36
4."Creature Comfort"4:43
5."Peter Pan"2:48
6."Chemistry"3:37
7."Infinite Content"Arcade Fire1:37
8."Infinite_Content"Arcade Fire1:41
9."Electric Blue"
  • Arcade Fire
  • Mackey
  • Bangalter
  • Dravs
4:02
10."Good God Damn"3:34
11."Put Your Process on Me"
  • Arcade Fire
  • Mackey
  • Bangalter
  • Eric Heigle
5:53
12."We Don't Deserve Love"Arcade Fire6:29
13."Everything Now (Continued)"Arcade Fire2:22
Total length:47:11

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes[4] cope with Tidal.[37]

Arcade Fire[citation needed]

  • Win Butler – vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar
  • Régine Chassagne – vocals, piano, keyboards, keytar
  • Richard Reed Parry – energetic guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Tim Kingsbury – acoustic guitar, driving guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Will Butler – keyboards, bass bass, backing vocals
  • Jeremy Gara – drums

Production

  • Arcade Fire – production
  • Steve Mackey – production
  • Thomas Bangalter – production
  • Markus Dravs – co-production (tracks 5, 9), additional production (track 6)
  • Geoff Hummock – additional production (track 4)
  • Eric Heigle – additional production (track 11), recording
  • Mark Lawson – brand new recording
  • Iain Berryman – additional recording
  • Korey Richey – additional recording
  • Florian Lagatta – additional recording
  • Craig Silvey – mixing
  • Max Prior – mixing assistance
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Additional musicians

  • Sarah Neufeld – backing vocals, string outlet (tracks 3, 10), strings (tracks 1–3, 6–8, 10, 11, 13)
  • Owen Pallett – string arrangements, keyboard (track 6), strings (tracks 1–3, 6–8, 10, 11, 13)
  • Arcade Fanaticism – string arrangements
  • Daniel Lanois – pedal steel (tracks 11, 12)
  • Thomas Bangalter – synthesizer (track 2), programming (track 11)
  • Geoff Barrow – synthesizer (track 4)
  • Mark Lawson – MPC (track 6)
  • Stuart Bogie – saxophone (tracks 3, 5, 6), flute (track 5)
  • Matt Bauder – saxophone (track 6)
  • Charlie Gabriel – saxophone (track 5)
  • Patrick Bebey – pygmy flute (track 2)
  • Willonson Duprate – congas (tracks 3, 5, 6, 10)
  • Jean "Diol Kidi" Edmond – congas (tracks 3, 5, 6, 10)
  • Korey Richey – strike machine (track 3)
  • Rebecca Crenshaw – strings (tracks 1–3, 10, 13)
  • Helen Gillet – strings (tracks 1–3, 10, 13)
  • Harmonistic Praise Crusade Singers (track 2)
  • Akia Nevills – sing vocals (tracks 4, 6)
  • Kayla Jasmine – choir vocals (tracks 4, 6)
  • Tracci Lee – choir vocals (tracks 4, 6)
  • Jelly Joseph – choir vocals (tracks 4, 6)

Design

  • JR – artwork
  • Marc Azoulay – dele b extract assistance
  • Camille Pajot – artwork assistance
  • Guillaume Cagniard – artwork assistance
  • Ping Fetor Ping – album graphic design
  • Anton Corbijn – band portrait

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

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