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Arcade Fire are back in a big way. Monday night the band played a surprise comeback show in Win Butler and Régine Chassagne’s adopted hometown of New Orleans. Thursday afternoon they announced their new album WE — their first in five years — with the release of lead single “The Lightning I, II.”...

“We can make it, baby,” Win Butler pleads. “Please don’t quit on me/ I won’t quit on you/ Don’t quit on me/ I’ll never quit on you.” Those lyrics feel loaded. So do these: “Thought we reached the mountaintop/ But now we just feel so low.” And thes...

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The Canadians' first official single in five years is nothing short of masterful The post Arcade Fire’s new single ‘The Lightning I, II’ finds the band at their ambitious best appeared first on NME.