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Pink Elephant

Arcade Fire

Pink Elephant

Seventh album from the Canadian indie rock band co-produced by Daniel Lanois and band members Win Butler and Régine Chassagne

ADM rating[?]

4.9

Label
Sony Music
UK Release date
09/05/2025
US Release date
09/05/2025
  1. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    It balances huge arena heft, synth throb and an ear-pleasingly smeary murk
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  2. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Embattled rockers recenter their musical vision and emotional world on Pink Elephant
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  3. 6.0 |   Mojo

    It's largely stripped of their loftier excesses. Instead, the tone - meditative, inward-looking - coalesces around Circle Of Trust's tender electro, Ride Or Die's minimal escapist lullaby or the tech-U2 of She Cries Diamond Rain. Print edition only

  4. 6.0 |   All Music

    Pink Elephant feels like an album Arcade Fire "had to" make, one that addresses a very public period of the band's history without getting too deep (or deep enough at all) into the matter, like they just want everyone to forget about it and move on to the inevitable next album cycle
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  5. 6.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Pink Elephant has some typically good Arcade Fire crescendo moments but it’s a real mix bag of quality
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  6. 5.5 |   Pitchfork

    Arcade Fire’s seventh album is a too-careful, too-canny exercise in restraint. It lacks the soul and spirit the band is known for
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  7. 5.0 |   Uncut

    It reprises their indie-modified take on panoramic, heartland rock and synth-pop, though with little emotional impact and no clear intent. Print edition only

  8. 5.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The album is the sound of a band struggling to find its way out of the wilderness
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  9. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    The Canadian quintet’s seventh album may stir up some nostalgia for the band’s former brilliance, but in the end, it leaves a shallow void where their spark once was
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  10. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    Win Butler and co release the biggest damp squib of their career
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  11. 3.0 |   Paste Magazine

    The Canadian band’s seventh album is clunky, poorly mixed, offensively self-serving, and annoyingly regurgitated
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  12. 3.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Arcade Fire used to burn bright, but a fire can’t survive when all the oxygen has been sucked out of the room
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