Arcade Fire‘s Win Butler has said their forthcoming new album ‘Reflektor‘ will ‘surprise people’, and contains songs which represent a further departure from the band as tentatively showcased on the lead single of the same name which was debuted this week.
“I never wanted to be in a band that couldn’t play whatever music we wanted to and I think that every record has been a project itself and some of the stuff on this record is really going to surprise people – it’s even more different than ‘Reflektor’ I would say,” Butler told BBC DJ Zane Lowe.
“It’s longer than ‘The Suburbs’ – it’s a double record – mostly down to the fact that the songs are a lot longer,” he added. “I mean, ‘Reflector’ is seven-and-a-half, there’s another couple of seven-minute songs on the record and so it made more sense to stretch it out to two records with two distinct sides. It’s more of a classic double LP vibe where you have to flip the side and it takes you to a different place.”
‘Reflektor’ is due for release later this year.