Arcade Fire New Album Info

For mystery to enfold the details of musicians and their bands, there must be a very meticulous engineering of anticipation for a new album. Tool are one of those bands whose obscurity sells their records. They'll print false album titles and track listings, or print nothing at all. They actually trick their millions of fans into believing, once an album does hit the stores, that it's the greatest thing since King Crimson's Discipline, because, well, it was a secret weapon, and if you learned even just one thing about it, the big big surprise would have been ruined.

The Arcade Fire seem like the right kind of band to choreograph this sort of calculating, false sense of suspense. Perhaps because the band have only reached its infancy stages, they don't have that faculty. Instead, they enforce the time honored tradition of a tickling with chunks of information. Their second LP, which won't be released for awhile, has been the subject of much chatter in the band's journal on The Arcade Fire's official site.

A few days ago Win Butler revealed that they will be producing the album themselves with the help of two engineers, one of whom worked on Animal Collective's Feels. They've been recording in a studio-furbished church and have already recorded on a Dracula-sized pipe-organ. Butler told his readers that a lot of the songs sound of the night near the ocean, and wants to do some recording, you guessed it, near the ocean.

It sounds as if the Candian bacon of inspiration has been sizzling with the band for the past month in their home of Montreal. New instruments. New settings. New ideas. I've got this feeling they're going to top themselves. I guess we'll just have to wait and hear, and not load our pants over these posts that can never satisfy our appetites for a new album.