Here’s an ambitious project from the Arcade Fire camp.  It’s a sort of nostalgia knife they wish to twist in your soup, hoping to stir up some emotions and so it goes like this:

“We Used To Wait” is going to be played on your computer, but not before you input the address of the home in which you grew up.

The link demands that you shut down any other programs that you have running on your comp and you should probably use Google Chrome to get it all running smoothly. A few minutes later the music starts and Win Butler begins to count off lyrics while a piano counts back – there’s a runner and some streets and then behold more windows open up in your browser and it’s your old neighborhood.

It’s all very eerie considering that this is a sort of partnership with Google, so it quickly becomes clear that wait, these are Google Maps images of my neighborhood and then it dawns on you that nobody from Merge Records or Arcade Fire actually went to your old hood to snap photos.

Are you going to any of their shows this fall? The Suburbs is out now and it’s probably the best selling indie record this year, which doesn’t really hold onto that indie title, but it does represent a nice change of pace.

 

 

words by nathan solis