Arcade Fire Made Another Epic Video. It Features Bono. It’s Really Weird.
It’s called ‘Here Comes The Night Time’, and it includes three new songs, and cameos from Ben Stiller, Aziz Ansari, James Franco, Michael Cera, and more!
As the musical act on the 39th season premiere of Saturday Night Live — helmed by the ever-awesome Tina Fey, and featuring her Dunham-approved Girls parody — Arcade Fire played two brand new tracks from their forthcoming LP: ‘Afterlife’, and the title track and lead single ‘Reflektor’.
That would have been enough for most Arcade Fire fans — but, as always, Win Butler and co. went the extra mile. Their SNL set segued into an epic 22-minute video concert set at the Salsatheque in Montreal, directed by Roman Coppola (son of Francis Ford and Eleanor; brother of Sofia; uncle of the newly-minted Gia), and featuring three more new tracks from the album: ‘Here Comes The Night Time’, ‘We Exist’, and ‘Normal Person’, interspersed by snippets of fake commercials.
Titled Here Comes The Night Time, the film features a bunch of cameos — Ben Stiller, Aziz Ansari, James Franco, Rainn Wilson, Eric Wareheim — with Bill Hader and Zach Galifianakis checking in from space, and Michael Cera playing a Spanish-speaking bartender who prefers Shakira and Michael Buble to Arcade Fire.
Bono is in it too. Bono is in everything.
If you’re not interested in the band’s new disco sound and want to skip straight ahead to the cameos, here are the times you’re looking for, thanks to this guy:
And one cameo you might not have seen? Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad, on-set to take his character for one last spin.
Reflektor is due out on October 29. But you’ve just heard like half of it anyway.
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