By: Patrick Topping (@ptopp_ing) – Arcade Fire’s Reflektor is the newest outing from everyone’s favourite band to love, and love to hate. And it’s okay to love to hate them, because right now, Arcade Fire feel pretty ambiguous about Arcade Fire. Following the pervasiveness of 2010’s The Suburbs, the Montreal-based collective were thrust across a rare threshold whereby the band’s closely-insulated image and music … Continue reading →
In this edition of “Aesthetic Week in Review” podcast we take a look at Montreal-based Era 9′s new cover of Adele’s smash hit “Skyfall,” Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s new song “Jewel in the Night,” China’s fight to update their music industry and Pulp’s new track as produced by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy.