By Kim Cyr-Goodyear

Arcade Fire’s Will Butler Announces New Album Generations, Shares Song: Listen 

Butler’s second solo record arrives this fall via Merge

Arcade Fire’s Will Butler has announced his second solo album. It’s called Generations and it arrives September 25 via Merge. Below, check out the self-directed video for Butler’s new song “Surrender.” 

Will Butler recorded and produced Generations in his Brooklyn basement. “My first record, [March 2015’s] Policy, was a book of short stories,” Butler said in a statement. “Generations is more of a novel—despairing, funny, a little bit epic.... A big chunk of this record is asking: What’s my place in American history? What’s my place in America’s present?” 

The most recent Arcade Fire album, Everything Now, was issued in 2017. This past April, frontman Win Butler said that writing for the next Arcade Fire record had “intensified” during the coronavirus lockdown.

Generations: 

01 Outta Here 
02 Bethlehem 
03 Close My Eyes 
04 I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know 
05 Surrender 
06 Hide It Away 
07 Hard Times 
08 Promised 
09 Not Gonna Die 
10 Fine