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Artist News
Arcade Fire six months into work on third album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 4 December 2009
Last month we revealed that Arcade Fire would definitely be releasing a new album next year. Now it transpires that they’ve been in the studio with producer Markus Dravs, who engineered 2007’s ‘Neon Bible’, for the last six months.
Dravs also produced Mumford & Sons’ debut album, ‘Sigh No More’, and it was they who let the news slip during an interview with BBC 6music. Frontman Marcus Mumford told the station: “I don’t know if I’m allowed to say this but yeah, [Dravs is] working on the next Arcade Fire record at the moment. There it is, dropped, 6music exclusive. I’m sure that’s public knowledge, because he’s been there for about six months”.
He added: “I keep asking Markus how it’s going and he’s like, ‘Yeah, it’s okay’, and I’m like, ‘What are the songs like?’ And he goes, ‘Better'”.
It’s also rumoured that the album is set for a May release. And if you want the full set of rumours, Billboard are reporting that there’ll be a single before the album is released, followed by a tour and some festival performances. But I would have thought that was obvious.
