Pink Elephant
by Arcade Fire
- Type: Album
- Released: 09 May 2025
- Label: Columbia
- Country: Canada
- Length: 42:16
- Community rating: 2.64/5 from 14 ratings
Artists on this release: Win Butler, Tim Kingsbury, R茅gine Chassagne, Micah Nelson, Dan Boeckner, Jeremy Gara
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Pink Elephant', Arcade Fire blends what the band called "cinematic mystical punk" with the atmospheric production of collaborator Daniel Lanois. The album's lyrical focus explores introspection, memory, and the psychological concept of ironic process theory, where the effort to suppress a thought makes it more prominent. This thematic core is matched by a sound that merges the band's anthemic inclinations with layered, atmospheric soundscapes, continuing their evolution from baroque rock towards a more synth-driven and introspective style.
Genres
Tracklist
- Open Your Heart or Die Trying (8:40)
- Pink Elephant (4:44)
- Year of the Snake (5:10)
- Circle of Trust (6:05)
- Alien Nation (3:24)
- Beyond Salvation (1:20)
- Ride or Die (4:08)
- I Love Her Shadow (5:29)
- She Cries Diamond Rain (1:21)
- Stuck in my Head (7:23)
Credits
- Arcade Fire - primary artist, performer
- Win Butler - synthesizer, vocals, bass guitar, background vocals, electric guitar, drums, percussion, drum machine, acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, theremin, cowbell, timpani, wurlitzer piano, organ, cymbals, mellotron, written by, producer, composer, cover, concept by
- R茅gine Chassagne - synthesizer, vocals, bass guitar, drums, pedal steel guitar, programming, theremin, mellotron, bells, glockenspiel, timpani, producer, written-by
- Jeremy Gara - drums, synthesizer
- Tim Kingsbury - guitar (bass), guitar (acoustic)
- Dan Boeckner - guitar (electric)
- Micah Nelson - guitar (electric)
- Daniel Lanois - producer, percussion
- Eric Heigle - co-producer, engineer
- Gerardo "Jerry" Ordonez - co-producer, engineer, mixed by, drawing
- Marc-Olivier Germain - mastered by, lacquer cut by
- Dawn De Deaux - drawing
- Ping Pong Ping - graphic design
- Liza Rey - painting
- Norah Chassagne - painting
- Art Villasenor - candle team
- Brewes Dorian - candle team
- Caleb Gridley - candle team
- Christine Ross - candle team
- Crescent City Sean - candle team
- Ian Wood - candle team
- Jordan Henderson - candle team
- Marc Clancy - candle team
- Phillip Diaz - candle team
- Tippy Tippens - candle team
- Jacqueline Ehk Longfield - photography by
- Simon Rivest - photography by
- Steve Rapport - photography by
- Catherine Lepage - photography by, drawing
- IV - photography by, drawing
- Kara Doney - photography by, make-up
- Joseph Douglas Elmhirst - photography by, candle team
- Joshua Bagnall - photography by, candle team
- Michelle Friddtadt - photography by, candle team
- Julia Simpson - producer, photography by