Arcade Fire have been working on a new album under quarantine, but in the meantime two members of the band are releasing albums of their own. Multi-instrumentalist Will Butler and drummer Jeremy Gara (pictured) both announced new projects this week, both with September release dates.
Butler will follow up his 2015 solo debut Policy (which yielded a memorable music video starring Emma Stone) in September with a new LP called Generations on Merge. He recently shared a trailer featuring a snippet of a new song called "I Don't Know What I Don't Know." No further details are available at the moment. Butler is also playing a virtual benefit show tonight supporting candidates for the state legislature in Arizona.
As for Gara, he'll drop Passerine Finale via Geoff Barrow's Invada label on 9/11. It's a collection of eight noise and drone instrumentals, "improvised and chiseled at." Our first preview is "Wraith," out today. Check it out below along with Butler's Generations trailer.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Agj8lv2HeuM
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Passerine Finale is out 9/11 on Invada Records. Generations is out sometime in September on Merge.
