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The Heckler

Arcade Fire: Everything Now

26 August 2017

9:00 AM

26 August 2017

9:00 AM

Grade: D+

Well, this is truly awful. Perhaps the worst album by a major band since Mardi Gras by Creedence Clearwater Revival back in ’72. And that’s a lot better than this pompous, trite and at times desperate drivel. Their first album, Funeral, was quirkily anthemic and packed with memorable tunes.

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