Reflektor

Is there an album more ripe for critical reassessment than this?

Best thing The Arcade Fire ever did.

i agree

While it did get great reviews from many publications, the overall sentiment seems to be that this was a misstep for the band. I disagree and I think it is one of the best records I've heard in the last 5 years.

Yeah I personally think that this and Neon Bible are better than the other two, even though those albums will go down as "classics"

The first disc is about a 7/10.

But the second disc is damn near perfect 9.5/10.

I also liked the whole concept behind the album, even if it is a bit obvious.

YOU'RE THE ONE THAT THEY USED TO HATE BUT THEY LIKE YOU NOW

I love the production but the lyrics are cringe

The lyrics were fine mostly, but songs like We Exist and Joan of Arc should never have made it on the album. SJW trash that brings the whole thing down.

It's objectively the best album of 10s

>tfw I love we exist for the composition but not the message

I'm not a fan of social commentary myself unless it's done in such an abstract way that it could apply to everyone

Also I prefer the version of normal person that they played on SNL

>Best thing The Arcade Fire ever did.
If you didn't get that the first time you heard it, you should probably not be discussing music

>SJW trash that brings the whole thing down
Maybe you bring humanity down

Fucking this. Every word.

After the first disc i always think to myself "Wow It started off so good and then it started falling apart"
But the 2nd disc always reminds me why I love Reflektor so much. Songs like "Awful Sound" "Porno" and "Afterlife" are among the best songs they have put out.

damn...

This is wrong

It's a big step down from all their past albums which were all at least 9/10

But a 10/10 is not a step down from 9/10

Nigga, Go back home to your MGTOW basement - those two tracks are fucking solid.

The whole album kicks ass and has become my favorite Arcade Fire album by a mile. I used to prefer Suburbs, but as a whole Reflektor is so much better.

I think it's easily their worst but it's not bad.

I had high expectations after the Suburbs and Sprawl II and I have to admit, I was a little underwhelmed by Reflektor.

Funeral > The Suburbs > Neon Bible > Reflektor
You can't dispute this

The lyrics are their worst ever and the songs where they're like "look we could make radio songs if we really wanted to" are dumb, it would have been better if it wasn't a double album as long as they cut the right songs

If you cut it to one disc yourself then yeah the one disc that's there is up there with Funeral

REKT

>I used to prefer Suburbs
Plebs go home pls

The Title Track and Afterlife are amazing, but the rest of the album barely holds up

Neon Bible > Funeral > Reflektor > The Suburbs

>You can't dispute this
But you listed Neon Bible and Reflektor last

Oh yeah, ment to say that Normal Person and Here Comes the Night Time are absolutely horrible tracks. Really the only thing from keeping this album from being Transcendental Album

>Neon Bible at the top

This right here. Fucking masterpiece is what that album is.

> Arcade Fire only has four albums
> No matter which one you like you get called a pleb
> fucking Sup Forums autists

I swear to god this the most underaged board on Sup Forums.

>actually
Funeral > Reflektor > The Suburbs > Neon Bible

>Here Comes the Night Time
>dat epic tempo and percussive shift
Maybe you just got some pleb stuck in your ears

I'm almost 33 and I fucking love and hate Sup Forums at the same time. I've discovered so many great artists on here, but goddamn you have to wade through shit like this to get there.

>Normal Person and Here Comes the Night Time
>absolutely horrible
Jesus, get new ears

>but goddamn you have to wade through shit like this to get there
But arcade Fire is great

What are you even saying

God-tier taste

>Liking Normal Person
You are literally a normie

Not Arcade Fire - they are amazing. I mean the shit comments about people being plebs for not thinking Neon Bible is the best. Sup Forums is just so shitty with elitist bullshit.

Every Arcade fire album is a 9 out of 10. I personally like:

Reflektor > Suburbs = Neon Bible > Funeral

>Sup Forums - REEEEEEEEEEE

Why are you still a pleb at 33?

this.

Funeral 10
Suburbs 9.8
Neon Bible 9.6
Reflektor 9.1

trips dont lie

it is!

agreed on the assessment of those 3 trax famo, they're gold

i used to really really like how bombastic the instrumentals and the production were but i dunno maybe it's just because i listened to it so much that i don't like it anymore. my body is a cage is still a beautiful song though

Personally I think the Porno is the one that never should've made it.

All you guys think disc 2 is so much better. All the tracks are just so boring after disc 1. It's like a complete disappointment. Disc 1 is groovy as shit and pretty enjoyable, should've been released by itself.

Both discs are fine. Calm down.

>It's a they speak french on the opening track episode

Dude, it got pretty much perfect scores upon release, p4k gave it a fucking 9.2. What are you talking about?

I'd love more tracks like reflektor and we exist