Influenced by Haitian rara music, the 1959 film Black Orpheus, and Søren Kierkegaard’s essay Two Ages, Reflektor marks a bold shift in Arcade Fire’s sound. The band leans into dance rhythms, layered percussion, and expansive arrangements, moving away from the more straightforward rock structures of their earlier work.
Across its two-disc, 75-minute runtime, the album unfolds like a journey, full of stylistic shifts and sonic experiments that still feel tied together by its ambition and scope. Lyrically, it wrestles with themes of identity, isolation, and the ways technology shapes human connection, often blurring the line between intimacy and distance.
From the propulsive opener “Reflektor” to the haunting 11-minute closer “Supersymmetry,” it is a record designed to be experienced as a whole...grand, immersive, and unapologetically committed to its vision.
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