Arcade Fire’s new existentialist music video of “Reflektor,” has kept fans eagerly awaiting the release of their upcoming album. The music video, directed by Anton Corbijn, starts out as a cut dissolve of a grunge black and white garage scene wherein the band members heroically emerge, each espousing a giant bobble-head. The video begins to resemble a wartime escape as the vocalists load their belongings into the back of a truck. In an eclectic dark disco fashion, a cowboy covered entirely in shattered mirrors takes over the video, giving the visuals a more literal meaning to the song’s title. The existentialist meaning of “Reflektor” becomes more apparent as the bobble-headed band begins worshiping a mirrored disco ball alongside the cowboy. So far, it is only clear that Arcade Fire’s new album will take a more hypnotic and futuristic sound that could easily surpass their previous success in “The Suburbs.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0fVfectDo
