Arcade Fire have become the latest headline act for this year’s British Summer Time festival at London’s Hyde Park, joining the likes of the The Libertines, Black Sabbath and Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
The Canadian band will top a bill on July 3rd which is also set for performances from Jake Bugg, Wild Beasts, Future Islands and Band Of Skulls. Tickets are on sale a week today (May 23rd).
Arcade Fire remain on the road in support of their 2013 double album ‘Reflektor‘. “For the large part, this is a record that is fecund with songs of enduring, and continuously surprising, quality – meaning that there will almost always be something else to discover with every listen,” Live4ever’s review reads.
“In particular, the songs on the second disc seem to melt beautifully into one another, even with slight bum notes such as the forgettable ‘It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)‘. ‘Here Comes The Night Time II‘ really holds its own, beginning with elongated laments of heavy bass, cello strings and organ drones over which Butler’s voice glides, intermittently joined by Chassagne’s pretty vocals and steady bars of buzzing guitars and melodic keyboard petals.”