Posts Tagged ‘World Cafe Live’

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Will Butler, the keyboard player and jack-of-all-instruments for Arcade Fire, has been playing smaller stages lately and liking it. Arcade Fire plays sheds and festivals — led by his brother, singer Win Butler — but he’s been playing 150-seat clubs as a solo artist who’s just released his debut album,“Policy”.

After receiving an Oscar nomination for his collaboration with Owen Pallett for the soundtrack to Spike Jonze’s film Her, Butler decided to make the record he’d been dreaming of. Butler is always in motion in this World Cafe session.

Will Butler.

Brooklyn folk-rockers the Lone Bellow worked with Aaron Dessner on their upcoming album “Then Came The Morning”, and some of the National’s dark elegance is present in “Fake Roses,” the second single they’ve shared from the project. The tune’s warm tones and steady pulse also hearken to Arcade Fire’s somber Funeral ballad “Une Année Sans Lumière” or Wilco’s “Via Chicago,” and there’s a weathered grace to the vocal, the sighing pedal steel and moody twilight atmospherics, the Lone Bellow have made a fantastic leap here, distancing themselves from a post Mumford hordes and proving that a class of stately indie rock is still capable of sounding fresh and vital.

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