It seems that the new Arcade Fire album is only good if you're a die-hard Arcade Fire fan.
The Canadian indie rock band released their long-awaited fifth album, "Everything Now," Friday at midnight, and by Friday morning, the band name was trending on Twitter for mostly the wrong reasons.
Music critics' reviews were mixed, but Twitter wasn't as kind. Most tweets TooFab spotted were disappointment spelled out in 140 characters or less.
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View StoryAccording to Pitchfork, "the Montreal band's fifth album finds them in musical and lyrical stasis. The pale, joyless songs don't transcend their social critique — they succumb to it."
Critics are also taking up issue with the "exhausting promotional antics" the band used prior to their album's release "that overshadow" an already "disappointing album."
The Ringer reviewed the album "after a baffling and wearying publicity blitz of fake reviews (intentional), damaging music-blog controversies (unintentional), and general prankster confusion (unclear)" and skewered the band for using "the very hype machine that brought them both reverence and ridicule."
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View StorySlate, meanwhile, couldn't decide if the album was good or bad. "['Everything Now']sounds great, and it sounds terrible, sometimes great because it sounds terrible," the review read. "It's a response to an impossible demand, one that nobody explicitly made but was nonetheless inescapable. Under these circumstances, there's no failure like success."
And, is it just us or can you hear a little of ABBA's "Dancing Queen" and Rusted Root's "Send Me On My Way" in the record's title track, "Everything Now"? For your listening convenience, we've included all three songs below this series of mean tweets from disappointed fans.
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View StoryArcade Fire: "Hey can I copy your homework?"
@tylerxcii
The 1975: "Yeah just change it a bit so you don't make it obvious" pic.twitter.com/v2eVNm38cU
I'd like to skinny repeal this Arcade Fire album.
@obaisimon
The arc of listening to an Arcade Fire album, brought to you by @Boringstein pic.twitter.com/wFe2WvxpYx
@TacoDetective
According to my sister, the new Arcade Fire album is somewhere between circus music and elevator music
@JCrepeault
No shade but Lorde did Arcade Fire better in Green Light than Arcade Fire did Arcade Fire in all of Everything Now
@lisasimpsonirl
listening to new arcade fire like pic.twitter.com/9nh1bGcZgZ
@_soybeans
Will say, the end of this Arcade Fire where it sounds like they gave up is better than what comes before it
@raptorjesus311
This Arcade Fire album is quite forgettable
@GWP84
Arcade fire es una mierda
@Manuel_Ibarra
As long as everyone's shitting on Arcade Fire I'll just say that Sprawl II still doesn't get enough play
@brendanowicz
New Arcade Fire album is incredibly disappointing. Juvenile music and some shoddy lyrics. Some OK moments but overall shite.
@glnsthrlnd1
That song Chemistry on the new Arcade Fire is the biggest pile of harbage I've ever heard.
@AdamPasifull
Well it finally happened, Arcade Fire made a mediocre album https://t.co/46KpT9S5az
@trydavis