Album · The Arcade Fire
Reflektor by The Arcade Fire
Reflektor is an album by The Arcade Fire, released in 2013. 6 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 42 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Reflektor”, on 25 lists with a best position of #3.
Reflektor, the Arcade Fire's fourth album, arrived in October 2013 on Merge in the US, and it's the sound of a Montreal indie band deciding the dancefloor was just as sacred as the church hall. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy co-produced with their regular hand Markus Dravs and the band, and the grooves run long and clattering. It's a double album, cut between 2011 and 2013 in Montreal, Jamaica and Louisiana.
Haitian rara rhythms, the film Black Orpheus and a Kierkegaard essay all fed into it, and the result is mirror-ball disco with an existential hangover: the title track pulses and broods, "Afterlife" aches, "Here Comes the Night Time" throws a carnival. The rollout was pure mischief, with the title track first slipped out as a limited single credited to a fictional band called the Reflektors. Critics liked it, it sold well, and it made the Polaris Music Prize shortlist in 2014.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Reflektor on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reflektor | 25 | #3 | – | 2013–2026 | |
| 2 | Afterlife | 9 | #20 | – | 2013–2014 | |
| 3 | Here Comes the Night Time | 4 | #38 | – | 2013–2014 | |
| 4 | Normal Person | 2 | #69 | – | 2013–2014 | |
| 5 | Joan of Arc | 1 | #45 | – | 2014 | |
| 6 | We Exist | 1 | #41 | – | 2014 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.