#voixdefeu

[carolinemcb4]

You have probably known this for a while, but did you know there is a painting in the Montreal BioSpheré called Voice of Fire?

[droopymccooljr]

ALL OF THESE MASKS MAKE ME THINK OF ALPHA AND ZETA FROM SUPPORTLINE 

[dalpuri]

One of my favourite things about the ‘Reflektor’ lyrics (the predominant interpretation of them, at least) is how nicely they tie in with the solution to New Mystery.

There’s the theme of being so caught up in technology and losing the feeling of what’s a real connection and what isn’t, and of engaging with things properly/face to face: ‘We’re still connected/but are we even friends’ → living in a ‘pixellated wonderland’/’there are no front porches’.

I’m also reminded of the lines ‘I thought I found a way to enter/but it was just a reflektor’ and ‘I thought I found the connector’, which I think in the song are referring to heaven. But they also make sense with how during New Mystery we were searching for an actual, absolute answer, or evidence (a way to enter) or a clue (connector) within the story they had created, as if that would give us some great closure. When all along, it was ‘just a reflektor’, in the sense of a mirror on us, as we now know. The title of voixdefeu was ‘This is a Puzzle About You’ right from the start. We were searching deep for something that was actually a relfection (ehhhh) on us.

'I thought I found the connector/but its just a reflektor' → the connector exists because we decided it does ('you all threw the first stone by starting the mystery in the first place'), when it was actually about y'all officers all along, numb nuts! The mystery was a reflektor and there was no connector.

And this is my favourite part: the song and the mystery describes a loss of connection and what not, but the solution/purpose (so they say) of New Mystery was to actually mend that on some level - to have a thing which necessitated cooperation and engagement of a degree that we would not have otherwise sought in our pixellated wonderland.

But there’s one thing you didn’t realize.

You yourselves all participated in the reset.

You’re all together, aren’t you.

You’ve made some friends.

From ‘are we even friends’ to ‘you’ve made some friends.’

If all this is a coincidence, which I suspect it is, then it’s quite cool how New Mystery has ended up, on this little analogical level, more related to new Arcade Fire than (so far) the Reflektor mystery itself.

That’s my two cents. :D

[asktheselector]

As for the long, mystery-filled buildup to the album, Butler described it as feeling not like promo, but more like a "weird art project" and "throwing a good party."

via pitchfork

[arcadefirerules]

rule #19

never give up on newmystery. the truth is still n out there.