Welcome to the New York Times Podcast, your Sinister Marketing Corporation of Music News and Journalism.

I'm your host John Caramonica. Oh, Every inch of skin is got a scar. I'm guessing sky's gotta start.

Every inch of skin is got a scar.

I can't see you got everything now.

Every space in your head

is filled up with the things that you read

I guess you've got everything now

and every film you've never seen

fills the spaces up in your dreams. That reminds me.

Everything like,

Every time. You never thought you'd hear the day where an Arcade Fire song would be opening up

the popcast and yet here we are an Arcade Fire song opening up the

Popcast that is Everything Now, which is the

title track from Everything Now, which is the new Arcade Fire record, which came out

last week, and is very divisive, especially for people who are fanatical about Arcade Fire.

I want to talk and go deep a little bit about this record and also where Arcade Fire is in the sort of

Ark of its career and on top of that the rollout of this album was

peculiar to say the least so to tackle all of these very very pregnant topics I've got

on the phone live from Columbus Ohio I've I've got Chris Deville, who is the senior news editor from Stereo gum. What's good, Chris?

Hey, what's good?

Thank you for being here. I have you on not just because I admire your work and it's very thorough and very thoughtful, but also I feel like the arc of the rollout of this Arcade Fire album, I feel like it couldn't have happened without you specifically.

You and stereo gum have become sort of characters in the rollout a little bit.

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