Arcade Fire live in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Arcade Fire might be close to putting out some new material.
Win Butler gave his Instagram followers a short, 8-second clip of new music with the caption, ‘Sometimes it takes 20 years to write a song’. If the full thing does emerge soon, it would signal Arcade Fire’s first moves after the release of Everything Now in 2017, though they did more recently contribute to the Dumbo soundtrack last year.
“There is a scene with a locomotive in the original Dumbo that uses an instrument called the Sonovox that my grandpa Alvino Rey made famous in the 1930s,” Butler said at the time. “Every time I saw the film I thought it was him.”
“When we were asked to do Baby Mine I immediately got all of my grandfather’s old guitars and wanted to play them in the song. My mom plays the harp on the track, my brother the theremin, my wife sings and plays drums, and our son even plays the triangle, as well as the rest of our ‘family’ in Arcade Fire.”
“I will forever relate to the song thinking about the people I hold so dear that are ‘so precious to me.’ Listen for the cameo of my grandpa Alvino’s famous Sonovox at the end.”