Reflector (album)
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October 28, 2013 |
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  Sonovox Merge
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Indie rock , art rock , dance rock |
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75 min 12 s (digital and LP) |
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Reflektor is the fourth studio album by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire . It was released on October 28, 2013 by Sonovox Records' own label in Canada and Europe and Merge Records in the United States . The double album was recorded in various recording studios and the LCD Soundsystem - frontman James Murphy , the regular Arcade Fire- producer Markus Dravs and the band themselves produced.
Reflektor was influenced by Haitian rare music , the 1959 film Orfeu Negro ( English Black Orpheus ) and Søren Kierkegaard's essay The Present Age . Before the release of the album was a guerrilla marketing campaign launched with Veve -inspired drawings and limited single reflector , which under the Bandpseudonym appeared "The reflector" on September 9, 2013.
The album received mostly positive feedback from music journalists and was commercially successful. The online magazine Pitchfork named it one of the 100 best albums of the decade in August 2014.
background
The origins of the album come from a trip by singer and guitarist Win Butler with his wife and multi-instrumentalist Régine Chassagne to the homeland of the Chassagne family Haiti. Butler said:
“Going to Haiti for the first time with Régine was the beginning of a major change in the way that I thought about the world. Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16. There was a band I [feel] changed me musically, just really opened me up to this huge, vast amount of culture and influence I hadn 't been exposed to before, which was really life-changing. "
“Going to Haiti with Régine for the first time was the beginning of a big change in the way I think about the world. I usually think that most of your personal musical influences are determined by the age of 16. There was a band that changed me musically, that really opened me up to this tremendous amount of culture and influence that I've never been exposed to before, which was really life changing. "
Inspired by the country's rare music and the musical culture of Jamaica , Butler and Chassagne incorporated elements of it into the band's new material. Butler said in an interview, “It's not that our band is trying to play Haitian music. I just felt that we were opening up to new influences. Bob Marley probably felt the same way when he first heard Curtis Mayfield . ”Production costs, according to the band's manager Scott Rodger, were $ 1.6 million.
admission
The first recordings for Reflektor were made in Louisiana in 2011 . The following year the band went to Jamaica with producer Markus Dravs for further recordings. In total, around 60 ideas for songs emerged that the band wrote and recorded in the abandoned Trident Castle : “The castle was built in 1979 […] by an eccentric Jamaican who just wanted to hang out with celebrities. And it kind of worked. After about five years he could no longer pay the bills, so it was abandoned for many years. I met the guy who was planning to make a hotel out of it, so we could rent it cheaply without furniture . We brought some beds, a piano, and other stuff. ”Most of the album was recorded on magnetic tape .
In August 2012, Arcade Fire began working with producer and LCD sound system front man James Murphy , with whom the band had wanted to work for over six years. Butler said in an interview with Rolling Stone : “ To me, LCD sound system is like New Order and the B-52s and we share a lot of those influences with which we did completely different things. Régine is such a person who dances. If you can get Régine to dance you are on the right track. That's why we wanted to make an album that Régine can dance to. "
In support of the decision to produce a double album , Butler said: “The album is very long. We wanted to make a short album and in the end we came up with 18 songs, all between six and eight minutes long. We thought: 'We screwed up making a short album.' Splitting it in half allows you to dive into different worlds of the album. "
Songwriting and composition
Reflektor is an art rock and dance rock album. Primary songwriter and front man Win Butler stated that Marcel Camus's 1959 film Orfeu Negro was a major source of inspiration for the album, particularly on the themes of isolation and death : “ Orfeu Negro is one of my favorite films that is made during a carnival in Brazil plays. The Orpheus myth is the original love triangle , like Romeo and Juliet . Lyrically it's not really about my life. I feel with something like a sponge. When people around me are getting through things, I find it very difficult not to be empathetic. ”Another influence on the lyrics was an essay by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard , entitled The Present Age (1846):“ It's about the reflective age . It's from 1846 but it sounds like it's taking place today. He talks about the press and alienation . "
The songs Here Comes the Night Time and Here Comes the Night Time II appear on the two different parts of the album. So the second song was written first and introduces the second half of the album. It is intended to commemorate the time after the annual Haitian Carnival. Both songs are influenced by the sunset in Port-au-Prince , which leads many residents to try to get home quickly as there is no electricity in much of the capital. In Here Comes the Night Time , Butler also criticizes the role of missionaries in the country.
The song Supersymmetry was first written by Spike Jonze for the film Her (2013) , for which the band composed the film music at the same time as the Reflektor recordings . Another version of the song is played during the credits. Parts of the songs Supersymmetry and Porno can be heard repeatedly during the film.
Linguistically, the lyrics are mostly in English and some text passages in French .
Advertising campaign
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In August 2013, cryptic symbols with the word “reflector” were drawn on the walls of houses in various cities. This street art was part of the guerrilla marketing campaign for the new Arcade Fire album. The release date was sent via Twitter in response to an individual fan. An Instagram account of the band posted pictures and a video of the icon.
On August 26th, Arcade Fire confirmed the connection with the symbol by a large mural on a building in Manhattan , which contained the inscription "Arcade Fire 9pm 9/9". On September 9th, the band released two videos for the first single Reflektor . The symbols were inspired by Haitian Veve drawings.
Parts of the reflector campaign were in a Slate criticized -Blogeintrag in September, 2013. Spraying the symbol as graffiti on the walls of houses caused damage to buildings. The band then apologized publicly and explained that the symbols should be drawn on the walls with washable chalk and not with graffiti paint, as in individual cases.
The preparation for the album release was described by Pitchfork as "unusual, ambitious, vague, confusing, a little awkward and very successful". It has also been compared to similar promotional campaigns for Daft Punk and Kanye West albums that came out that same year. For Butler, promoting the album was like a “weird art project” or a “good party”.
Cover
The cover of the album shows a picture of Auguste Rodin's sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice from Greek mythology .
publication
On September 2nd, Arcade Fire released a 15 second long music excerpt on Spotify with the title 9pm 9/9 under the album name Reflektor . A week later, the band announced a concert called "The Reflektors ," which was held that evening at Montreal's Salsathèque Club at 9 PM ( 9 PM ) for Canadian dollars . After an appearance on Saturday Night Live on September 28, a 30-minute concert special was also broadcast on NBC , staged by Roman Coppola and with cameos by Rainn Wilson , Bono , Ben Stiller , James Franco , Michael Cera and Zach Galifianakis . The three songs Here Comes the Night Time, We Exist and Normal Person were played for the first time. A 30-second teaser video of the song Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice) was released on October 12th . Nine days later, the lyrics video for Afterlife , which consists of scenes from the film Orfeu Negro , was released. On October 21, the band under the name "The reflector" played the song normal person when Colbert Report . A song lyrics video for the album was released three days later.
A digital deluxe edition of the album was released in September 2015 . There were also five new songs and a remixed version of Flashbulb Eyes by Dennis Bovell with Linton Kwesi Johnson . The new song Get Right was also released as a single. The songs were released on cassette in October 2015 under the title The Reflektor Tapes .
reception
Press reviews
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| Metacritic | 80% |
| Allmusic |
  
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| Entertainment Weekly | B. |
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| Pitchfork | 9.2 / 10 |
| Plattentests.de | 8/10 |
| Rolling Stone |
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| Mirror online | 10/10 |
| Spin | 8/10 |
| The AV Club | B. |
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Reflektor was received mostly positively by music critics . The album has a rating of 80% on the review aggator Metacritic , based on 48 reviews.
David Fricke of the US edition of the Rolling Stones described the album as "a perfect summary of their still passionate indie-born hunger, after a decade with success in the mainstream ." It is also the best album that Arcade Fire has ever made to have. Lindsay Zoladz from Pitchfork described the album as a triumph, but "no lap of honor "; because the band never seems satisfied enough. Edna Gundersen from USA Today also praised the album: “Much of the music - bold, heavily distorted and sizzling with electronics - sounds great and fresh. The ensemble is changing from the clearer rock template of The Suburbs and Neon Bible to exotic beat-driven mashups . Arcade owes something to David Bowie (has a brief cameo) and the respect- era U2s . Coproducer James Murphy from the inactive LCD sound system also brings his rhythmic approaches into the mix of confusing dance hybrids. "
Kitty Empire from the Observer was impressed with the production quality of the album and the songwriting , but felt that each song was a little too long. Therefore, Reflektor is not an “amazing album” for them, but instead “just a very, very good one.” For Simon Goddard of the British magazine Q , Reflektor does not “justify its whole size” and it “tends to fray rather than end ". It is "proof that you can really have too much of a good cause".
Daniel-C. Schmidt from the German Musikexpress described the album as a "new masterpiece". Producer Murphy had carried out a "thorough musical renovation" for the band, but the album was too long and some of the lyrics were too "sorry". Daniel Gerhardt wrote for Spex that Arcade Fire, together with Murphy, and Reflektor “created an index of the last 40 years of pop”. It is the "kind of album that sounds like all the other important albums are on it too." Joachim Hentschel from the Süddeutsche Zeitung called the album an "epic" and an "elaborate spacerock opera" that offers even more than that the many dance elements. The multi-layered sounds also stand out for Hentschel. The whole album itself is exhausting in its length. Sebastian Leber from the Berliner Tagesspiegel feared a "return as irony light" before the album was released. However, Reflektor was able to convince him, because it is the “most powerful, adventurous and sophisticated work” of the band to date. Thomas Pilgrim from Plattentests.de writes in his review of the album of a “spark-spraying kaleidoscope full of weird ideas, cunningly fumbled quotes and great pop euphoria.” Some songs are Acrade Fire standard, but this is comparatively very high. Andreas Borcholte from Spiegel Online awarded the highest rating with a 10 and called Reflektor a “contemporary rock opera”.
Awards
The Rolling Stone led the album to number five on the list of the 50 best albums of the year 2013. The reason cited the magazine that reflector triggers real feelings and it is therefore great. The album reached tenth place in the 50 best albums of the year on the music portal Stereogum : “[ Reflektor is] the album that Arcade Fire didn't have to risk creating, but they did it anyway and we were happy to have it. This is an album that sets a new milestone. From now on, we hear a post- reflector Arcade Fire and they have never been so exciting. "At the British e-zine Drowned in Sound erlang reflector fifth place in the list of best albums of the year, although the site the album first negative Criticism gave. In August 2014, Pitchfork included it in the list of “100 best albums of the decade to date”.
The Music Express led the album at number three of the best albums of 2013. The editors of laut.de voted it to fourth place of the annual leaderboard. For Jan Kühnemund von der Zeit , too , Reflektor was one of the best albums of the year. At Spiegel Online , Jan Wigger put the album on the website's annual top list.
17 music journalists from the Polish media group Agora SA ( Gazeta Wyborcza , Gazeta.pl , Tok FM ) put Reflektor in first place of the 10 best non-Polish-language albums of 2013.
Reflektor was included in the extended list of nominees for the Canadian Polaris Music Prize 2014. In the same year the album won the “Best Album” and “Best Alternative Album” awards at the Juno Awards . There were also nominations for the “best single” (Reflektor) , “best band”, the audience award and the best songwriting (Afterlife, Here Comes the Night Time, Reflektor) . Reflektor was nominated for " Best Alternative Album " at the 2015 Grammy Awards while the music video for the song We Exist by director David Wilson (starring Andrew Garfield ) was nominated for " Best Music Video ".
| publication | rank | list |
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| Billboard | 9 | The 15 best albums of 2013 (critics) |
| Complex | 16 | The 50 best albums of 2013 |
| Consequence of sound | 7th | The 50 best albums of 2013 |
| Drowned in sound | 5 | Drowned in Sound's Favorite Albums of 2013 |
| Gazeta Wyborcza | 1 | The ten best foreign albums of 2013 |
| laut.de | 4th | Best Of 2013: The albums of the year |
| Music Express | 3 | The 100 best albums of 2013 |
| NME | 7th | The 50 best albums of 2013 |
| Pitchfork | 10 | The 50 best albums of 2013 |
| Rolling Stone | 5 | The 50 best albums of 2013 |
| Slant Magazine | 2 | The 25 best albums of 2013 |
| Stereogum | 10 | The 50 best albums of 2013 |
Track list
In CD and digital releases, We Exist is the second track on the album but fourth on the LP (first song on the B-side). The first record of the CD release begins with a ten-minute instrumental medley of inverted song samples , hidden in the pregap in front of the first track, while a five-minute soundscape at the end of the second CD ends with Supersymmetry and thus the album.
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| No. | title | length |
| 1. | Reflektor (before an untitled hidden track (10:02)) | 7:34 |
| 2. | We exist | 5:43 |
| 3. | Flashbulb Eyes | 2:42 |
| 4th | Here comes the night time | 6:30 |
| 5. | Normal person | 4:22 |
| 6th | You already know | 3:59 |
| 7th | Joan of Arc | 5:24 |
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| No. | title | length |
| 1. | Here Comes the Night Time II | 2:51 |
| 2. | Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice) | 6:13 |
| 3. | It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus) | 6:42 |
| 4th | porn | 6:02 |
| 5. | Afterlife | 5:52 |
| 6th | Supersymmetry (with an untitled hidden track) | 11:16 |
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| No. | title | length |
| 1. | Apocrypha | 5:18 |
| 2. | Women of a Certain Age | 3:16 |
| 3. | Flashbulb Eyes (Dennis Bovell Remix feat. Linton Kwesi Johnson ) | 2:49 |
| 4th | Soft power | 5:43 |
| 5. | Get right | 4:41 |
| 6th | Crucified Again | 5:03 |
occupation
The line-up of the album is as follows:
Arcade Fire
Win Butler , 2007
Régine Chassagne, 2009
Richard Parry, 2007
Tim Kingsbury, 2007
Will Butler , 2007
Jeremy Gara, 2015
- Win Butler - vocals , rhythm guitar , electric bass , piano , synthesizer , banjo and mandolin
- Régine Chassagne - vocals and accompaniment , synthesizer, piano, accordion , xylophone , hurdy-gurdy , drums , elephant trunk, recorder & percussion and xylophone
- Richard Reed Parry - rhythm and lead guitar , piano, synthesizer, organ , xylophone, accordion, electric bass, double bass , celesta , drums, backing vocals and percussion
- Tim Kingsbury - rhythm guitar, electric and double bass, piano, synthesizer and backing vocals
- Will Butler - rhythm guitar, electric and double bass, synthesizer, piano, sitar , trombone , clarinet , pan flute , glockenspiel , singing saw , omnichord , concertina , backing vocals, percussion and gadulka
- Jeremy Gara - drums, rhythm guitar, piano, synthesizer & percussion
Additional musicians
Sarah Neufeld , 2015
Owen Pallett , 2009
Colin Stetson , 2010
Kid Koala , 2010
David Bowie , 2006
Jonathan Ross , 2014
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- Sarah Neufeld - string instruments , orchestral arrangements , backing vocals, vocals, synthesizers, piano
- Owen Pallett - orchestral arrangements, strings, piano
- Marika Anthony-Shaw - string instruments
- FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague - orchestra
- Colin Stetson - horn arrangements , saxophone
- Stuart Bogie - saxophones
- Willinson Duprate - another percussion
- Verrieux Zile - another percussion
- Baptiste Jean Nazaire - another percussion
- Wilkenson Magloire - another percussion
- Dieuveut Marc Thelus - another percussion
- Wichemond Thelus - another percussion
- Kid Koala - Sample Manipulation ( 1.1 )
- David Bowie - vocals ( 1.1 )
- Jonathan Ross - voice sample ( 1.6 )
production
James Murphy , 2010
Damian Taylor, 2011
Ted Jensen, 2013
- Arcade Fire - Production , Mixing ( 1.3 and 2.1 )
- James Murphy - production (except 1.3 and 2.1 ) , further recordings, mixing ( 2.2 and 2.6 )
- Markus Dravs - production (except 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.6 ) , further recordings
- Mark Lawson - production, further recordings ( 1.1, 1.3 and 1.4 )
- Korey Richey - Production, Mixdown Assistant
- Tom Elmhirst - further recordings, mixing ( 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.7, 2.3 and 2.5 )
- Damian Taylor - further recordings
- Pascal Shefteshy - further recordings
- David Farrell - recording assistant
- Eric Heigle - recording assistant
- Craig Silvey - Mixdown ( 1.2, 1.5, 1.6 and 2.4 )
- Mark Lawson - Mixdown ( 1.3 and 2.1 )
- Matt Shaw - Mix Assistant
- Ben Baptie - mix assistant
- Joe Visciano - Mixdown Assistant
- Eduardo de la Paz - mixing assistant
- Ted Jensen - Mastering
Artwork
- Caroline Robert - album art , photography
- Korey Richey - Photography
Chart placements
Commercial win
Reflektor sold 49,000 copies in Canada in the first week, making it to first place on the Canadian album charts and staying there for 15 weeks. In total, the album was sold 101,000 times in Canada in 2013.
In the United States, Reflektor also reached the highest position on the Billboard 200 chart with 140,000 units sold in the first week . It was with 31,000 sales that sold third best vinyl album in the US in 2013. By December 2014, sold reflector 367,000 times in the United States.
In the UK, the album topped the charts with 45,252 sales in its debut week .
Reflekor stayed in the German album charts for eight weeks and reached sixth place after Funeral (first place, 2005), the best chart position of the band in Germany.
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Awards for music sales
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 France (SNEP)
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 gold
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50,000 |
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Canada (MC)
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 3 × platinum
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240,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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gold
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100,000 |
| All in all |
2 × gold 3 × platinum |
390,000 |
Web links
- Reflector at Discogs
- Reflektor at MusicBrainz
Individual evidence
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