Will Butler
Generations
Release Date: Sep 25, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
Record label: Merge
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Album Review: Generations by Will Butler
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
It's been five years since Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Will Butler released a solo studio album and four since the live album Friday Night. With a halt to recording a new Arcade Fire record due to COVID-19, Butler hasn't let his time under lockdown cease the process of making Generations in his Brooklyn studio. The album explores Butlers' exploration into history and his calling as an artist.
Based on rating 7/10
With his first solo album, 2015's Policy, Arcade Fire member Will Butler reawakened some of the electricity and chaos that defined his well-loved band in their earliest days. The rawness and spontaneity that the Arcade Fire lost on more neatly primped later records surfaced on some of Butler's solo songs while others were softly rendered. Five years after Policy, second solo album Generations finds Butler offering up another set of passionate songs rich with complex but understated arrangements.
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