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It's looking fairly certain that Arcade Fire will drop a new single called 'Everything Now' tomorrow - the first taste of their highly-anticipated fifth album.
Whispers first began yesterday (May 30), when the Vancouver radio station 102.7 The Peak took to Twitter to promise that a new tune from the gang is incoming.
Since then, the evidence has been stacking up and it looks like it's definitely (probably) on.
A teaser clip posted after features the audience chant that the band sampled during their headline set at Voodoo Music + Arts Experience back in October. Posters of the logo featured in the clip have since popped up in Montreal.
.@ArcadeFiretube Meanwhile in Montreal... pic.twitter.com/4XpIJ1MSlo
— Maxime Poulin (@WRMaximePoulin) May 30, 2017
Head to the Arcade Fire Tube site for the full run down of updates and rumours - they're usually right about this sort of thing.
Elsewhere, the band have announced a couple of intimate shows at London's York Hall in Bethnal Green, taking place July 4 and 5. The dates come hot on the heels of previously announced gigs that will see Arcade Fire call at the Scunthorpe Baths Hall (June 7), Edinburgh Corn Exchange (June 8), the Isle of Wight festival (June 10), Belfast’s Ormeau Park (June 13), Dublin’s Malahide Castle (June 14) and Manchester Castlefield Bowl (July 6).
Looks like the band will be in or around the UK at the time of Glastonbury too, and there's plenty of TBA slots to be snapped up on the bill...
Arcade Fire previewed six new songs at a warm-up gig in Montreal two weeks ago. None of the new material has leaked online thanks to fans having to leave their mobile phones at the door.
Speaking of the new album, drummer Jeremy Gara said: “All of [the songs] have been recorded. The album should come out this year. At this stage we are still mixing and trying to decide which songs will end up on the record, because we’ve recorded more than we need. But we’re almost finished. I don’t know when it’ll come out, I hope soon.”
