Albums of the week

INDIE

Arcade Fire

Everything Now (Sonovox Records)

Arcade Fire have made their name as being the band many other bands secretly aspire to becoming like (it’s not for nothing that there’s a T-shirt saying ‘I heard Arcade Fire before you’). But for their fifth long-player, the Canadian stalwarts have veered away from their bracingly ambitious grandstanding indie-pop of yore in favour of a different tack: this is Arcade Fire, alright, but illuminated ...