Ever since I first listened to Funeral I've had this image that Arcade Fire are actually prophets of our eventual doom. Silly I know, but then they released Neon Bible and made that delusion even worse. Win Butler and his band of not so merry Canadian brethren seem to be shielded from trends or the changing times. They simply come back and demand to be heard. "Everything Now" is a different sort of demand, it's the biggest demand that you can speak of. Luckily, Arcade Fire have dressed up this statement of longing in one of their most purely enjoyable compositions to date.
As Butler blurts his words out in all manner of panic bordering on frustration, the band back him up with a bloody pan-flute and the piano line from Dancing Queen. Arcade Fire aren't the most obvious of bands to have a sense of humour, but this juxtaposition of vocals and music works well with the theme. It could be seen as yearning form more, or it could be a simple capitalist warning about how we always want more of what we have. Whatever it may be, one thing is for sure: it's great to have Arcade Fire terrifying me with existential dread once again.
