New Song By Arcade Fire – Suburbs/Month Of May

You can now listen to the whole album for free right here.

It’s not out quite yet but it apparently will be.

Over the last few weeks people have been glued to the Arcade Fire website, myself included.  First they changed the layout of it, then they started slowly adding new tour dates and rumours were rife that they would add some club dates in North America and Europe.  As of yet they haven’t, only announcing festival dates….ok and a couple of club dates in Europe, but not a whole tour.

Anyway, then they changed the banner at the top of their site to say “Arcade Fire Presents The Suburbs” and nobody knew what it was, but apparently it was a mistake because they removed it from the page.  However they didn’t remove it from source code so the only mistake was having it visible.  Well now it’s gone from the source code but one eagle-eyed eagle found a link for what looks to be a brand new single called “Suburbs/Month Of May” that’s available for pre-order on Amazon.

There’s no artwork as of yet and the single is on imported vinyl, which means it’s slightly more expensive than a regular 7″, but the best part is that it’s set for a June 1st release date.  That’s only 16 days, 12 hours, 24 minutes and 34 seconds away.  You can bet your mother-flippin’ bottom dollar that as soon as something comes out it’ll be here, so keep checking back for details.

UPDATE: They’ve since updated their site with a postcard addressed to “The Internet” that says:

“Howdy Yall, just finishing up pressing our 12″. Should be in stores in the next couple weeks, God willing. Good luck with finals, see you this Summer! AF”.

By 12″ I’m assuming they mean a 12″ single.  If they managed to write, record, and press an entire album without anyone knowing I’d be highly fucking surprised and impressed.  If it’s being released in a couple of weeks, chances are it’ll show up online somewhere before then, but if Sleigh Bells taught us anything about leaks, it’s that they don’t always happen.

Here they are, give ‘em a listen.

Arcade Fire – “The Suburbs”
Arcade Fire – “Month Of May”