Everything Now
by Arcade Fire
- Type: Album
- Released: 28 July 2017
- Label: Sonovox, Columbia, Rough Trade
- Country: Canada
- Length: 47:11
- Community rating: 2.34/5 from 19 ratings
Artists on this release: Régine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara, Will Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Win Butler, Richard Reed Parry
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Everything Now', Arcade Fire pivoted to a more dance-rock and synth-pop-oriented sound, enlisting producers like Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk and Steve Mackey of Pulp. The album's songwriting explores themes of consumerism and media oversaturation in the digital age, which the band amplified through an elaborate and satirical marketing campaign. While the record's direct conceptual approach and sonic shift proved polarizing for critics, it was a commercial success that debuted at number one in several countries, including the US and UK.
Genres
Tracklist
- Everything_Now (continued) (0:46)
- Everything Now (5:03)
- Signs of Life (4:36)
- Creature Comfort (4:43)
- Peter Pan (2:48)
- Chemistry (3:37)
- Infinite Content (1:41)
- Infinite_Content (1:41)
- Electric Blue (4:02)
- Good God Damn (3:34)
- Put Your Money on Me (5:53)
- We Don't Deserve Love (6:29)
- Everything Now (continued) (0:46)
Credits
- Win Butler - vocals, bass guitar, electric guitar, lead vocals
- Régine Chassagne - vocals, piano, keyboards, keytar, backing vocals
- Richard Reed Parry - electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Tim Kingsbury - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Will Butler - keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Jeremy Gara - drums
- Sarah Neufeld - backing vocals, string arrangements, strings
- Owen Pallett - string arrangements, piano, strings
- Daniel Lanois - pedal steel
- Thomas Bangalter - production, synthesizer, programming
- Geoff Barrow - additional production, synthesizer
- Mark Lawson - additional recording, mpc, engineering
- Stuart Bogie - saxophone, flute
- Matt Bauder - saxophone
- Charlie Gabriel - saxophone
- Patrick Bebey - pygmy flute
- Arcade Fire - production, string arrangements, mixing, Primary Artist
- Steve Mackey - production
- Markus Dravs - co-production
- Eric Heigle - additional production, recording, engineering
- Iain Berryman - additional recording, engineering
- Korey Richey - additional recording, drum machine
- Florian Lagatta - additional recording, engineering
- Craig Silvey - mixing
- Max Prior - mixing assistance, assistant engineering
- Greg Calbi - mastering
- JR - artwork
- Camille Pajot - artwork [assisted by]
- Guillaume Cagniard - artwork [assisted by]
- Marc Azoulay - artwork [assisted by]
- Harmonistic Praise Crusade Choir - choir
- Jean "Diol Kidi" Edmond - congas
- Willonson Duprate - congas
- Ping Pong Ping - design [graphic design]
- Anton Corbijn - photography by [band portrait]
- Rebecca Crenshaw - strings
- Helen Gillet - strings
- Akia Nevills - choir [choir vocals], vocals [choir vocals]
- Jelly Joseph - choir [choir vocals], vocals [choir vocals]
- Kayla Jasmine - choir [choir vocals], vocals [choir vocals]
- Tracci Lee - choir [choir vocals], vocals [choir vocals]