Perhaps not content with inspiring Where The Wild Things Are or doing an original soundtrack for Richard Kelly’s possibly ridiculous horror flick The Box (“I seriously thought Cameron Diaz was doing that thing where you put on an exaggerated Southern accent as a joke!” -Videogum.com), it looks like maybe Arcade Fire are working on a Neon Bible followup. At least that’s what TwentyFourBit‘s trying to piece together. Hey, nice new press photo…
For starters, yes, of course, Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, and Owen Pallett are scoring Kelly’s film, regardless of what Butler says. (Those are likely samples in the trailer.) And here’s where TwentyFourBit started their sleuthing:
…[W]hat about an official soundtrack release? The Playlist asked that very question recently, speculating on possible issues with the film (pushed back release date, etc.), but the real clue lies in director Richard Kelly’s response to the non-troversy on Twitter:
The band is hard at work recording the new Arcade Fire album. They will release the score at some point, when it does not conflict with their album release schedule for their record label.
The film’s out 11/6 in the US. Something we just spotted at Owen Pallett’s Twitter:
@JRichardKelly It’s our own personal tribute to the Blade Runner soundtrack. We’ll put it out in 2041. Okay witchu?
The second bit of info TwentyFourBit looks at is the shifting of Arcade Fire’s tour availability, which switched from n/a to “2010: TBA.” You can see for yourself at their booking agent’s site. Finally, there’s this:
[H]ere’s Win Butler to NME this past summer: “None of us want to take three years making a record. It could be that we’ll play live [soon] and maybe we’ll end up bashing it out fast. We’re in the middle of writing, things are coming together, it’s a great feeling.”
While we’re pushing things, wonder why their Facebook will getting more use in the coming months?
UPDATE: For what it’s worth, an anonymous tipster writes in to say “Arcade Fire have been in the Magic Shop studio for the last three weeks working on their long awaited Neon Bible followup.”
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thank god
omg omg omg
Their time is over, Neon Bible was an ok indie-pop record but with no depth that makes it stand to repeated listenings. The next one is going to be even worse since they can’t change their sound much.
Your opinion is wrong.
Listen to “The Well and The Lighthouse” to further improvement of it.
shweet!
OMG I hate Arcade Fire. I hope they don’t ruin Coachella.
They look like Adults Of The Corn.
haha! they do look like children of the corn as adults
But did you see the other clues something is afoot on Pallett’s Twitter?
October 8th: http://twitter.com/owenpallett/status/4694804215
October 18th: http://twitter.com/owenpallett/status/4974426935
October 19th, for the conversion: http://twitter.com/owenpallett/status/4984152855
New Sufjan Stevens AND Arcade Fire albums? I think all of the hipsters just had simultaneous orgasms.
Also, I hate to be the nerd, but that press photo is, like, three years old.
I think the press photo is almost five years old (sorry to be a bigger nerd/a douche)
2010 is going to be da bomb
Vampire Weekend
Beach House
MGMT
The National
Of Montreal
Arcade Fire
Sufjan Stevens
maybe a new Burial album
maybe a new Radiohead album
and I’m sure there are many more that I’m forgetting
AND a new Strokes album…it’s looking like.
Vampire Weekend
Beach House
MGMT
The National
Of Montreal
Sufjan Stevens
Wow, you made a list of some of the lamest bands around! (Esp VW) You forgot The Decemberists!
why in the hell are you even on this site?
I like plenty of the bands that are covered on this site but c’mon, Vampire Weekend are not a good band. Another whimpy Pitchfork approved crappy band. I do look forward to the new LCD, Radiohead, Arcade Fire and White Stripes cd’s.
LCD, Arcade, and White Stripes? Sounds more boring hipster shite than majority of the ones Eric listed.
Hah. I’m not a huge VW fan and a few of the bands listed are not my favorites (VW, Beach House, MGMT), but it just seems like next year has a lot of releases from a lot of cool bands.
And yes, I forgot about Yeasayer and LCD and I’m probably most excited about the LCD album of the ones I listed. I didn’t know about a new White Stripes album, but that’d be sweet (I’m not really a fan of any of Jack’s other work, like The Raconteurs or the Dead Weather, so it’ll be good for him to get back to the WS).
I’m most excited for the Arcade Fire, LCD, Burial, of Montreal, and hopefully Radiohead. Don’t know if that gives me more Stereogum cred, but whatever.
Eric had a great list. Also the strokes and white stripes additions were in great taste. Arcade Fire are ok. New Radio Moscow, Black Keys, Fleet Foxes and Ryan Adams would be great too in 2010.
Yeasayer
Broken Bells (James Mercer and Danger Mouse)
The Shins
WORD.
of Montreal AGAIN! Awesome, I guess they can handle 15 months of touring no sweat.
Also, to add to your list:
White Stripes resurrection (longshot but possible)
Gorillaz 3rd record (quite likely)
LCD Soundsystem (confirmed for March!)
Jesus this is the most milquetoast collection of artist I’ve ever seen. Expand your horizons, dude.
Every year everyone gets so excited about their favorite bands releasing new albums and every year the best albums of that year are always bands that come out of nowhere. Case in point, the last 2 years have seen Passion Pit, Fleet Foxes, and Bon Iver and that’s just a small example. There have been a lot of really good albums this year including Phoenix, St. Vincent, The Decemberists, and Andrew Bird but none of those even come close to rivaling my love for Passion Pit this year.
I enjoy The National, Sufjan and Arcade Fire (and am most excited for the new LCD album), but just can’t figure out how people are still listening to Vampire Weekend, Beach House, Of Montreal, and The Decemberists (The Decemberists? Really???).
Beach House
The National
Of Montreal
Sufjan Stevens
maybe a new Burial album
maybe a new Radiohead album
YES
Radiohead
Beach House
Burial
of Montreal, ftw
the guy who runs their fansite said this to me on twitter :
solace: @scottwisconsin don’t get TOO excited just yet, but good things are coming in the new year :)
then he said
solace: @scottwisconsin hey, trust me i’m excited at the thought of a new album too :)
Well thank Christ for that. It’s been a long cold couple of years in their absence.
Excited mutterings about this one so far, too.
The 2010 White Stripes album will be the best of them all
and LCD Soundsystem
When I got the press release about Silver Starling’s new album, it said that Marcus Paquin was currently engineering the new Arcade Fire album. True story.
I believe there’s a new Midlake album slated for next year too. Huzzah! Good news all round.
New Midlake!? Have been patiently listening to those rumors for quite some time. I hope they will finally get a little more well deserved attention with this release. Loved “The Trials…..!
LOL @ solace
Plus, a new album from David Dondero in 2010!!
I’m sure I’m not the only one who is interested to hear what Noel Gallagher’s new album will sound like now that he’s free of trying to make “Oasis music”.
Their lp’s are good but live these guys are the biggest pretentious twats ever. Win’s wife (hag) has the attitude of “We are Arcade Fire and we are here to rawk you with the songs I let my husband sing. I hope that no one realizes what a fake and unnecessary wank I am!”
All this talk about the Arcade Fire made me think about that other Canadian band which some believe is the blueprint for everything AF stands for… Broken Social Scene.
I’d like to know who those people are, to be honest. I don’t think the two bands have anything in common other than herds of Canadians.
Swarms of Canadians? What do you call a collective of Canadians?
I refused to like U2 until Achtung…if that helps…
What about the new MIDLAKE?
to me that’s one of the most anticipated
Richard Parry was at the Doveman show last night … I should’ve asked him
Hey Scott, as an admin do you have any power to stop those awful trollling repeat free medication comments on the Manband thread?
Yep, just took care of that. Our spam filter is decent, but I still spend an hour every day deleting spam and duplicate comments. Like a boss.
We tweaked something w/ the filter yesterday, so some bot was able to get through and hijack an old thread. Trying to keep an eye on it, but I’m out of town this weekend. Please excuse our mess!
I think I’m most excited for the Ruby Suns and Shearwater in 2010. I would probably cry if Okkervil River were so kind as to release something, as well.
I’m not trying to get all Montreal hipster on everyone, but anyone from around here who pays any attention knows that AF are practicing new material and recording demos. I see them eating together near their practice space in Mile End pretty often… plus the band members who are on facebook all have statuses about being in the studio in New York… There were rumors about them playing a secret show at Pop Montreal that never came to fruition, but people half-believed it because of all their recent activity. There’s an album coming soon. End of story.
PS, what I don’t pretend to understand is why they aren’t recording it at the converted church studio that they friggin own.
I hate this bloody hipster thing.
You shouldn’t have to say “I’m not a hipster but…” before offering useful information about a relevant young band that people want to know about.
Here we have a act that are ambitious, talented, exciting and active; but clearly liking them on any of those merits is just too absurd an idea to be even entertained by a sound mind.
When will it be re-cool to like Arcade Fire? I’ll tell you, when Butler and Chassagne are a million years old and divorced, and Richard’s left the band to change his name to Cat Stevens. By then, they’ll have stopped touring or recording, or doing anything exciting or relevant, and started releasing special commemorative edition Rock Band tracks and Christmas singles and remaster boxsets. Then we can all finally get to work pissing and moaning about how good they were back when we were listening to them in 2010.
It’s so fucking frustrating. You read the comments on Stereogum, you’d be forgiven for thinking that nobody actually enjoys any music at all; they just hate it, competitively..
Yo man, I totally agree. I just put that caveat at the beginning of my comment because I didn’t want to look like I was bragging about seeing Arcade Fire walking around my neighborhood all the time. Just sharing some info that people from outside Montreal might not have. Word.
Yeah, I didn’t want to sound like I was picking on you, I would have started out with that disclaimer too. Thanks for the word too, it’s much appreciated.
It’s funny, Arcade Fire are a fairly striking bunch of guys and girls – you can’t really miss Win Butler in a crowd, the guy’s enormous – and still, they keep a remarkably low profile when they’re not touring. Butler and Chassagne in particular seem to have vanished off the face of planet Earth for the last two years.
Bands are not simply over with. Music doesn’t just come and go in sparks. Yes, the Arcade Fire were in a prime quite a few years back, but nothing says they’re no longer worth a damn and can’t still make a great album. The Beatles were pretty big in ’63 and I’m sure people said they were done with at some point after that, but sure enough they went on to make Sgt. Pepper’s, which may very well be the greatest in their career, many albums later. The point is that music’s quality is not dictated by age. If you believe that, then you are a pretentious fuck who probably only listens to what the internet dictates as “cool”.
I also agree with Mr. Blinks. Just because you enjoy a young, exciting band that is actually doing something productive rather than sitting at home and comparing their favouite bands to others, does not mean you are a hipster. And even if you are a hipster, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s not as if all indie kids are pretentious, snooty douchebags who won’t believe their music is better than everyone else’s. Oh wait, look, that’s what the people who accuse us of being “hipsters” are doing right now on this thread. For God’s sake, it’s gotten to the point where you stereotype people based on their music. Music is an expression, not meant to ctegorize people, not meant to be a badge of cool, no meant to tear us apart in arguments. Live and let live.
*Who believe their music is better than everyone else’s.
i love how any mention of arcade fire at all will get people arguing. it’s seriously fucking embarrassing that people can’t just enjoy music, or not enjoy it for that matter, without having to defend themselves.
i for one, am very much looking forward to this album.
so there.
i can second that arcade fire are indeed recording at the magic shop as we speak. a 2010 release would be nice!
In 2010 Burial will emerge from his basement to slay all overhyped bands from the previous decade.
Wasn’t there a new Avalanches record that was kind of, sort of, rumored for 2009? Does that make 2010 more likely?
Plus, aren’t there numerous OutKast solo and duo rumors for next year?
I’m getting really pie-in-the-sky with my wish list, huh? Maybe Jeff Mangum will get back in the studio, too, while I’m at it.
The criminally underrated Pantha Du Prince shall move dance floor minions in 2010 as well. Maybe hipsters will like him this time since Panda Bear is guesting.
Other 2010 releases with potential include:
Massive Attack, as well as a rumored full album remix of the new Massive Attack by Burial (much the way Mad Professor remixed “Protection”)
Also, new Besnard Lakes.
And I second looking forward to The National and LCD.
Wish list: Ambulance LTD, the Knife, DJ Krush, Radiohead, The Wrens
joanna newsom? broken social scene? menomena? foals? i thought the word was joanna’s new record might have been released this fall but drag city seems to be quiet on the matter
new broken social scene album will be awesome. mark my words.
needs more Deltron Event II
Oh wow! This is spinning news in me systems!! :0
i miss the days when stereogum was filled with comments from hipsters trying to be clever and funny through poking fun. now it’s just hipsters trying to prove they are less hip (and thus more hip?) than the previous comment. :(
i hope it’s good, since neon bible sucked.
I seem to remember some press from a while ago saying that Menomena were shooting for 3rd quarter of 2010. That would be wonderful. As would the aforementioned hope of an Okkervil River album. And as to the original thread: I adore everything Arcade Fire has released and wish them the best of luck with whatever comes next…especially if that is an album out in 2010.
Arcade Fire have gone into a weird twilight space where they’re so generally popular, it’s just presumed they can’t possibly be good enough to justify it
It’s absurd that some people are so hellbent on making it known that they’re immune to hype, that they’re going to go out of their way to let one of the few great acts of their own time pass them by. I mean, it makes sense to be distrustful of a huge degree of hype unless you’ve made up your own mind, but pre-emptively writing a band off totally on the basis that they’re TOO well-liked is ridiculous.
well, thank god we know when the Orianthi album’s coming out!
Kinda hard to say a blog has integrity in what they say about music when they’re willing to take money to promote the hell out of anything that comes along…
I think it’s pretty clear advertisements and editorial are completely separate. The writers don’t choose which ads to display.
Here’s a wish for 2010: A single Stereogum post about new music without comments from jaded people.
I bet that weird chick from Arcade Fire lets out some stinky farts.
so true, i was thinking that same shit
Vampire Weekend
Beach House
MGMT
The National
Of Montreal
Arcade Fire
The Decemberists
maybe a new Burial album
maybe a new Radiohead album
it’s 2007 all over again
I was going to say I can’t wait for the new 3OH!3 album, but then I realized I haven’t gotten the first 3OH!3 album yet… so I guess I can wait.
Arcade Fire already released an album this year under the name of Fanfarlo, and it is their best work yet. No need to wait for the pretentious Canadians when some stuffy Brits are better anyway.
Go F yourselves Arcade Fire.
Bob Seger says, “Turn the Page..”
F you Bob Seger.
And why is that chick to the right of my screen holding a guitar like she knows how to play it??
She can fuck off too!!!
If you’re in the Tempe, AZ area you should be going to this show tonight while tickets are still available! THE MAINE at the MARQUEE THATRE!
I will only listen to a new Arcade Fire record if its recorded in Spanktravision. What a waste of Canadians, patience, art and music. Never owned, never listened (outside of a certain trailer) and definitely not looking forward to a bunch of people talking about it being released.
This is exactly what I mean. You’re telling us you’ve never owned, and never listened to, their stuff, but you still want it known that even in ignorance you begrudge them their success.
And then you’re proud of that, as if it’s not a completely and self-evidently moronic way to approach any subject, much less talk about it afterwards. Mind boggling.
Yeah, they’re not over. They have not done anything particularly original as a band in the first place except be indie and popular. Oh, and also, dudes who beat their girlfriends? Not okay. The Flaming Lips are better anyway. OH SNAP.
Wow. Why do you even bother posting these anti-another guy’s favorite band comments? Why can’t you just put up with the fact that they love the music they love? I love the fking Arcade Fire. Did you hear Neighborhood #1 tunnels? I fking cry everytime I listen to it. Don’t go to my room while I’m listening to the Arcade Fire and fucking force-feed me your opinion of what I should listen to while I’m crying and listening to Neighborhood #1 tunnels, ohkey?