ARCADE FIRE - WE | LP

Produced by Nigel Godrich, Win & Regine, and recorded in multiple locations including New Orleans, El Paso, and Mount Desert Island, "WE" paradoxically distills "the longest we've ever spent writing, uninterrupted, probably ever" (according to the band's Win Butler) into a concise 40-minute epic - an epic that speaks as much to the forces that threaten to pull us away from the people we love, as it is inspired by the urgent need to overcome them. The album's cathartic journey follows a definable arc from darkness to light over seven songs divided into two distinct parts - Part 'I' channeling the fear and loneliness of isolation, and Part 'WE' expressing the joy and power of reconnection.