#sundayrevival City with no children - Arcade Fire

City with no children - Arcade Fire

Hello guys, I hope your week had been fine. Mine, as anticipated, has been pretty hectic among new workshops that required a shitload of work in and especially out of class, Valentine's dinners, the usual uni life, hunting for Gen.2 Pokémon in Pokémon Go, dumplings dinner with friends, cleaning and more...! It's been a super full week, but somehow I manage to (more or less) reconcile all my activities and efforts requests! Now I am expecting a Sunday afternoon in front of the computer, reading and writing and coding (what a change...!), but first of all I wanted to share this with you, as I'm feeling in a really Arcade Firey mood today! Hope you enjoy and have a great Sunday!

#sundayrevival Sprawl II (Mountains beyond mountains) - Arcade Fire

Sprawl II (Mountains beyond mountains)
- Arcade Fire

Yesterday I thought I would be posting something by Arcade Fire for this sundayrevival, but don't ask me why, as I really can't remember...! Whatever, I thought I would and I will. Staying on topic with yesterday's events (the first Gay Pride in my home town, followed by today's news that we are going to have a left-wing mayor for the first time since... ever), I remember I thought about Regine dancing with ribbons in the video of this song (maybe that's why I thought about Arcade Fire) and that is a thing I always feel like doing too while listening to this song. Not being able to move graciously (at all), I'd better refrain from that, but who knows whether sooner or later I will give way to my ideas...?

Take my side - Will Butler

Take my side - Will Butler

Today things have been going slightly better than yesterday, as I filled up my afternoon with some house cleaning, I hope that now I live in a less-dusty world! Besides that, nothing much has happened, which is driving me somehow crazy, and to address this issue I need to do something, i.e. probably going to turn out into me booking another trip and leave soon for some place, possibly warm and with a nice seaside! Today I also finished giving my basic get-to-know 10 listens to a bunch of new albums I have been approaching recently, which have mostly been featured here on the blog in the last couple of weeks or so. Will Butler's has been one of the most rewarding of them undoubtedly, and this song, the opener of his short album, is the one that made me realise I would enjoy it since the first 10 seconds I had put it on!!

Anna - Will Butler

Anna - Will Butler

The brother of Arcade Fire's frontman Win Butler (beware, 'cause I confused them myself, besides having almost the same name, they also look alike), Will, who is also a member of the famous Montréal-based band, released a solo album last year and I've recently been listening to it. I must confess that the vibe is quite different from Arcade Fire, a lot less epic and a lot more indie, with a much less elaborated sound, but nonetheless greatly enjoyable, especially a few songs! This is one I had already listened to when Will announced he would be writing one song per day for a week based on the current news. I guess some of these ended up on the album, this one did for sure and it's a well-deserved place for it!

Porno - Arcade Fire

Porno - Arcade Fire

I had already started writing my post for another song, then I saw on my Fb wall that AF's Reflktor-soundtracked movie is about to be released in theatres and that they released a video out of it for Porno, and given that I hadn't posted the song yet and that Reflektor was one of my (if not the) favourite albums released in 2013, it seems like the timing for posting it is perfect!! Even more so thinking about the fact that I have been mentioning Montréal quite often lately and that a weird willingness to go back there in Canada after quite a few years already is getting stronger these days...! Who knows...?! Travelling is so easy these days! It just takes a song to start the journey already...

It's never over (hey Orpheus) - Arcade Fire

It's never over (hey Orpheus) - Arcade Fire

As I have mentioned many times, my friends are a constant inspiration for me in terms of music (and many other things), and lately I have been exchanging suggestions with my friend B. in particular. This is an album that I bought online 3 copies of, one for me and two for two friends of mine, her and E, as we all loved Arcade Fire. The album is quite tough, but after a few listens I got the hang of it and started loving it a lot, while I didn't get much positive feedback from them. She recently told me she was about to approach it again, and she did this morning, thus making me willing to listen to it again while I was taking a shower and getting ready to get out of home for the first time after some 10 days! Needless to say, I enjoyed it a lot, but I am kind of at a loss as I posted already practically all of the songs I love on it, and that I would love to share with you again. The real pity is that I posted them at the beginning, when the blog still had virtually no audience, so it's been kind of a waste, but well... when I decide it's time to start re-posting some stuff, I'll advertise them again! For now I'm playing my trump card, that is Orpheus! This song is quite long and heavy to digest, but the guitar riff is quite catchy and will stick in your head like candy syrup, I'm sure!

Wake up - Arcade Fire

Somethin' filled up

my heart with nothin',

someone told me not to cry

Getting to the end of a long book or a TV series (as it is my case now, I just finished True Blood) always leaves you with a feeling of emptiness inside you when that parallel world did mean something for you, at least at one point, if it taught you any lesson, if you felt like being a part of that world...

Children wake up,

hold your mistake up,

before they turn the summer into dust

I stand here with a fixed and empty stare at the computer screen, trying to process things, tearing up with that parallel world, getting out of it once and for all, making sense of reality, of my reality once again and realising that this will be a part of it no more.

I guess we'll just have to adjust

Wake up - Arcade Fire

I am spending these days in Milan as if they were my last, I have no idea what will be of my life, but chances are I will be spending at least a bunch of time here, be it for the people who gravitate around here, be it as it is so close to my hometown, be it for the relationship I built with city, be it because it's the one place in Italy I would choose to live my life in. Yet, whatever comes next, it's not gonna be the same. Things are changing already, as I mentioned in my latest post, and I am changing too. I am slowly realising that this very relevant and long chapter of my life is ending, and I am getting some closure, I am actually willing to get some closure because behaving like this helps me get so many memories of the time I spent there, the things I've done, the places I've loved, the people I've met... but everything comes to an end, and something new starts! I guess we'll just have to adjust.

Keep the car running - Arcade Fire

Keep the car running - Arcade Fire

I'm back home after a very intense last few hours! Lots of kilometers (or miles, if you'd rather) stacked up with my pretty little one (my beloved car), good company and an amazing destination. In the end all of my fears were (almost completely) unfounded: the weather has been quite good for the whole duration of the concert, actually the dark sky heavy with clouds and sliced through by lightning has been an amazing and scenographic frame for the concert! The irony lays in the fact that we got flooded by raindrops as big as apples in the 3 minutes when we were running back to the car after we left the venue...! In the end we got super wet anyway, but it happened at the best time possible.
About the concert, well, it's been a great experience and it was worth the trip to (near) Verona: beautiful venue (though with a not-as-good sound), beautiful setlist (with a couple of not-so-strong songs maybe) and a band in good shape (even though I felt less adrenaline rushes than I expected to). All in all a good to great concert, I'm happy I've been there and that's what matters! The highlight for me has been a super performance by We exist, their latest single, mainly thanks to a very powerful introduction by Win (something like "This song is about a gay guy not being accepted by his father, I'm sure you all have been in this situation in one way or another, but don't worry, you are perfect the way you are now!") and... well, I could've asked a little bit more from Neon Bible but we got a few and another one of the songs I enjoyed the most is the one I chose for this post, so keep your car running!

Neighborhood #3 (Power out) - Arcade Fire

Neighborhood #3 (Power out) -
Arcade Fire

The time has come! Second concert of my summer, here I come! The circumstances of our trip are not forecasted to be the best ones (we're leaving around the traffic jam time and the storm that's supposed to rage out on the concert is more and more strongly confirmed by the weather forecast), but I'm still thrilled by the whole experience, I hope it's gonna be unforgettable. Actually, I hope that the storm won't cause a 'power out'!!

#sundayrevival Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire

I have been quite busy doing nothing lately and well, it's time to post! In this weird moment of tiring nothingness interspersed with super busy days I almost forgot that my second (and last for the time being) concert of this summer; almost, but not completely! I have started listening to Arcade Fire's whole discography to get ready for the gig and to get in the mood! It's just two days away and I still have to finalise the arrangements: the thing that is worrying me the most is that a storm is forecast to rage out on the place exactly before and during the gig... it's gonna be like being at a british festival I suppose! Well, we'll see how it goes, in the meanwhile let's enjoy the opening track of their debut album, Funeral, in this sundayrevival post!

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) -
Arcade Fire