New Arcade Fire Song Makes Everyone Lose Their Minds, Websites

It has been a long time coming, but notice what a little well-placed hype can do? Their has been a lot of chatter regarding the new album from The Arcade Fire and when the public would hear something resembling a full song. The band's website has only featured an odd little widget playing a snippet of music.Well, a couple of songs finally got played today on Radio BBC1. As fast as you can say "radio rip", both the a-side "The Suburbs" and its flip "Month Of May" hit the internet via blog Rock It Out. Indie powerhouse promoters Pitchfork posted the link, thus crashing the site of the originator. Then, another blogger tried to lend a hand using Soundcloud, but that file is not working so well. Finally, on-air radio station 107.7 in Seattle stepped in and posted both songs on their website. Obviously, their servers had a little more behind them, because I finally was able to stream them with little consequence. The songs are very raw, underproduced and of negligible quality, so it is hard to make an assessment. Judge for yourself below.

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs


Arcade Fire - Month of May