Their live shows were renowned for their ecstasies of carnivalesque communion. The group, led by married couple Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, originated as a ramshackle ensemble in the early-2000s Montreal music scene, then burst out with its critically and fannishly adored first album, Funeral. In fact, “we” have no other option, as the preset operation here is a review of their new album, called We. We’ll take as our test subject the career arc of the prominent indie-rock-whatever-that-means band Arcade Fire. Sometimes I think there’s no better proof than the inexorable cycles of consensus opinion in pop culture. A host of contemporary psychologists, philosophers, and scientists have argued convincingly this century that free will is an illusion.
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