‘We’ Review: Arcade Fire’s Enduring Anxiety
Arcade Fire always sounded representative and defiantly out of step with its own time. It’s easy to fit the group into the aesthetic of the so-called New Sincerity, a post-9/11 ideology that rejected the previous microgeneration’s embrace of hip cynicism and postmodern irony. Arcade fire is by definition catered† Numbness and boredom were the boogeymen. …