WE

by Arcade Fire

WE cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 May 2022
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 40:18
  • Community rating: 3.13/5 from 16 ratings

Artists on this release: Tom Pigott-Smith, Orlando Primo, Eric Heigle, Louisa Fuller, Oliver Langford, Richard George, Mark Braud, Everton Nelson, Charlie Gabriel, Matt Rhody, Liza Rey, Willonson Duprate, Marianne Haynes, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Harry Hardin, Andre Michot, Helen Gillet, Sarah Neufeld, Win Butler, Wendell Brunious, Lucy Wilkins, Louis Michot, Rachel Robson, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey, Nigel Godrich, Sally Herbert

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced alongside Nigel Godrich, the album conceptually divides itself into two halves: 'I', focusing on modern anxiety and isolation, and 'WE', focusing on communal reconnection. It consciously strips back the disco and electronic experimentation of their previous release, returning instead to the sweeping, anthemic indie rock arrangements that defined their earliest commercial successes.

Genres

Descriptors: alienation, conscious, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Age of Anxiety I (5:27)
  2. Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole) (6:41)
  3. Prelude (0:30)
  4. End of the Empire I-III (5:23)
  5. End of the Empire IV (Sagittarius A*) (3:54)
  6. The Lightning I (3:01)
  7. The Lightning II (2:34)
  8. Unconditional I (Lookout Kid) (4:33)
  9. Unconditional II (Race and Religion) (feat. Peter Gabriel) (4:20)
  10. WE (3:51)

Credits

  • Arcade Fire - primary artist
  • Andre Michot - accordion
  • Romeo Bougere - agog么 [agog么 bell]
  • Gift Horst Tintypes - artwork ["we" poster photo development by]
  • Wes Winship - artwork [acropolis is burning poster]
  • Terry Pastor - artwork [airbrush color tinting]
  • EHT Collaboration - artwork [black hole image]
  • Pneuhaus - artwork [giant eye]
  • Peter Gabriel - Featuring

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