Arcade Fire Return

So, the Arcade Fire are back, with David Bowie in tow. Well I never. The lead-off single, Reflektor, sounds like a disco in a Haitian after-hours drinking hole, attended by Talking Heads and Death From Above 1979 - which is exactly what I'd like Arcade Fire comebacks to sound like. The fact that James Murphy, the big-boned genius behind one of my favourite bands of all time, has manned the desk for this one means it's all the more exciting, basically.

The curtain-raising short film premiered on SNL the other night features Bono, Ben Stiller and a lot of neon horsing-around. Check this out.

Aren't they just awesome?

 I still haven't seen them live, but they are a cert to tour in the next few months, with a UK-based run of shows around Summer/Autumn next year I would have thought. This logic also raises the fevered prospect of AF playing Glastonbury. Eavis has already said that the headliners involved will all be newcomers to the Worthy Farm wellyfest, and if memory serves, Win and Regine's bunch of Canuck reprobates have already played there, so a headline slot is unlikely. I can't think of a better band to do it at this stage of their careers, though. I suppose the broad appeal is still missing - they're just a couple of steps away from average Joes knowing enough about them to buy a ticket on the basis of a headline appearance. Maybe 2015 will be their year, though? If the snippets that have come out around Reflektor are anything to go by, they're definitely on the way to the very top.

Oh, and there's a nice dig at Mumford and Sons in the longer video from SNL posted above, too. Always good.