Arcade Fire: Games Without Frontiers
Arcade Fire really channeling their desire to regress to the eighties here.
So I was sure this album was never actually going to happen. A while back Peter Gabriel puts out a cover album, says dudes if you want to cover my songs too that'd be cool. Mostly they say yeah that'd be cool, but musicians, you know? I guess it took a while to get everyone in line. But here's an album, and they're mostly here, except Neil Young, David Bowie*, and Radiohead. Okay, the first two are old, I guess they've got an excuse (but come on Lou Reed's here and he's dead). Radiohead consciously absent because they decided to be twits after they didn't like what he did with their song.
Weird collection. A lot of the renditions are pretty sedate, which isn't a problem in its own right but does things to the pacing of an album. But I guess these different people working separately over a few years didn't exactly coordinate in that way.
(*Brian Eno showed up instead.)
