Arcade Fire's Win Butler reveals more details about new album, Reflektor

With producer James Murphy being the main mouthpiece for new Arcade Fire album info recently, the band themselves have now finally spoken out and about the record.

In a snippet taken from an upcoming interview with BBC Radio 1, set to air fully today, frontman Win Butler has discussed their upcoming double album, Reflektor.

Butler reveals the reasoning for the 2LP is simply that they had written around 50 or 60 songs for the release. ” made more sense to stretch it out to two records,” Butler says. “I never wanted to be in a band that could never play whatever music we wanted to.” There will also be several seven minute-plus tracks on the full-length, along with new single and title-track ‘Reflektor’.

And in a year filled with strange PR methods, Butler says that he didn’t regard the band’s guerrilla marketing campaign as “promo” but instead saw it as a “weird art project” or “throwing a good party”.

The full interview will be broadcast on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show this evening. Here’s the album’s artwork beneath:

[via CoS]