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Arcade Fire is obsessed with recursion, too

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a. natasha joukovsky
Sep 18, 2017
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Occasionally I'll run into a cultural artifact that so perfectly combines my four themes that it's hard to know where to start with it. Arcade Fire's latest album, Everything Now, is one of those cultural artifacts.

No surprise: the album and Infinite Content tour alike open with the title track, an ultra-digestible disco-pop anthem of anti-consumerist c…

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