1 week Ago By Jordan Ercit
Article content Montreal band Arcade Fire has announced Pink Elephant, its first new album in three years. The 10-track, 42-minute long album comes out May 9 and was produced by band members Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Daniel Lanois, at Butler and Chassagne’s Good News Recording Studio in New Orleans. The band also shared the first single, Year of the Snake, which features Butler and Chassagne on vocals.
It’s the first new album from the band since Butler was accused of sexual misconduct in 2022 . The accusations cast a shadow on their last hometown concert as part of the WE world tour at the Bell Centre on Dec. 3 of that year.
Multiple people described “receiving unsolicited explicit texts and nude photos from Butler; and being pressured to send him sexually explicit photos and videos, despite their expressions of discomfort or refusals to comply,” T’Cha Dunlevy wrote at the time of the show. Last year, the band performed select dates as part of a 20th anniversary tour for its debut album Funeral, but didn’t play in Montreal. The same lineup will be featured on Pink Elephant.
Butler’s brother Will left the band on the eve of the release of WE. In a press release, the band said it will announce “special gigs in select cities” in the coming days where it will play the album in full. Arcade Fire is scheduled to play South Carolina on Apr.
27 and appeared last month at the SNL50: The Homecoming Concert. You can watch the new video for Year of the Snake below:.
