Arcade Fire’s Win Butler revealed some details to Pitchfork on the band’s secretive, potentially awesome impending short-film collaboration with Spike Jonze: “It’s like a science-fiction B-movie companion piece for the record. Basically, we played Spike some music from the album and the first images that came to his mind had the same feeling as this idea for a science fiction film I had when I was younger. My brother and I and Spike wrote it together, which was really fun — it was like total amateur hour. We shot it in Austin and a lot of kids are in the film, and it was great just hanging out with these 15-year-olds for a week and writing down all the funny things they said.”

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Feeling a little lost these days? Getting harder and harder to keep up with the news because it feels like it’s coming from a parallel, unrecognizable universe? Do you find yourself wondering “Who are these people blabbing on TV, professing to know what “the American people” really want and mean? Steve Winwood’s song still resonates.