Canadian indie-rock band Arcade Fire is coming to Rogers Arena on Friday November 25th to bring the heat they’ve been accumulating this 2022! The band originating out of Montréal, Quebec is paying Vancouver a visit apart of their ‘WE’ Tour in light of their most recent album, WE.
The band consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Réfine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, and Jeremy Gara, was founded in 2001 then eventually gained traction and started becoming more prominent in 2004 when they released their highly praised debut album Funeral. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Alternative Music Album and has appeared at the top of many year-end and decade-end lists, and is now receiving the title of one of the GREATEST albums of all-time.
Not bad for a debut album, eh?
They kept that momentum going into their second album, Neon Bible, where it won them the 2008 Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year. Despite a very successful year from their second album it was their third album where they really hit it home with The Suburbs, which won them 3 awards including the 2011 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album. Their fourth album, Reflektor, which also scored the feature film Her, got bandmates Will Butler and Owen Pallett nominated in the Best Original Score category at the 86th Academy Awards. The band has been stellar enough to earn a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy’s for all their studio albums.
‘WE’ is the bands sixth studio album which was released back on May 6th, 2022. It will be the final album to feature multi-instrumentalist Will Butler, who left the band shortly after the album completed in 2021. The album has gone on to receive generally positive reviews getting a rating of 73/100 based on 29 reviews. It debuted at No. 6 on the US Billboard 200 chart and has earned 32,000 “album-equivalent units” (including 26,500 copies sold) in the first week. The album has also accumulated just under 6.5 million on demand streams for the album’s songs.
Arcade Fire is a show that you don’t want to miss so be sure to get your tickets today before its too late!