The authenticity springs in part from the quality of the songs being recorded by the fictional band on stage, which were written by Will Butler, a multi-instrumentalist and former member of the Grammy ...
“Take your mind off me,” pleads Win Butler on the title track of Arcade’s Fire seventh album, Pink Elephant. He wishes. With a tone of fragile hopelessness, Butler and his Canadian-US ensemble grind ...
It’s 1976, and an Anglo-American rock band are in a Californian studio making the album that is going to catapult them to global superstardom. But all is not well: creative tensions, personal ...