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Noel Gallagher has slammed Arcade Fire, hitting out at their 2013 comeback album Reflektor, and claims the Canadian stars are 'arrogant'.
Arcade Fire's comeback album met with a mixed reaction from critics, but fans' reactions to Reflektor were overwhelmingly positive. The band have performed a handful of international shows since, thrilling audiences with their epic and ambitious live performances. However, none of this washes with Gallagher, who has fiercely criticised the band and their return to the music world.
"Anybody that comes back with a double album, to me, needs to pry themselves out of their own asshole," he tells Rolling Stone magazine. "This is not the Seventies, okay? Go and ask Billy Corgan about a double album. Who has the fucking time, in 2013, to sit through 45 minutes of a single album?
"How arrogant are these people to think that you've got an hour and a half to listen to a fucking record?"
And as for the dress code at gigs? He's having none of it.
"Well, what's the point of that?" he adds. "Do you know what the point of that is? That is to take away from the shit disco that's coming out of the speakers. Because everybody's dressed as one of the Three Musketeers on acid."
Watch Arcade Fire's 'Afterlife' video below
He also claimed to only like some of Artic Monkeys' AM album, adding: "You know, the other half is like, "Eh, yeah" – but half of it is really fucking good."
Gallagher did, however, have praise for both Disclosure's Settle ("I love that record. It's got a really old-school fucking acid house vibe to it,") and Kanye West's Yeezus ("I got the album, and it's fucking great. I really like it.")
Below: Arcade Fire, live at London's Roundhouse, November 2013
