WE

WE is the sixth album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire and features the single The Lightning I, II. Produced by Nigel Godrich, band leaders Win & Régine, and recorded in multiple locales including New Orleans, El Paso and Mount Desert Island, WE paradoxically distils "the longest we've ever spent writing, uninterrupted, probably ever" (per the band’s Win Butler) into a concise 40 minute epic – one as much about the forces that threaten to pull us away from the people we love, as it is inspired by the urgent need to overcome them. The album's cathartic journey follows a definable arc from darkness into light over the course of seven songs divided into two distinct sides -- Side “I” channelling the fear and loneliness of isolation, and Side “WE” expressing the joy and power of reconnection.