Each Tuesday and Sunday, Taylor rounds up this week’s best new music with the New Music Discovery Show. Here’s one of our favourites.

Arcade Fire – “The Lightning”

Arcade Fire have returned with their first single in five long years. On Thursday, the Canadian rockers shared “The Lightning”.

The band’s highly anticipated sixth album, WE, will be released on May 6.

Frontman Win Butler shared an open letter to fans, explaining the backstory of “The Lightning”.

The new album was recorded in New Orleans, El Paso, and Mount Desert Island during “peak COVID”.

WE will be released on May 6. Pre-save the album here.

 

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