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In the current issue of NME magazine, the Arcade Fire’s Win Butler revealed that the band has starting penning songs for their next album. Butler told the U.K. music mag, “Before Funeral, me and Regine had this big room to rehearse in … People would come by and work on a song. Now the guys are calling and wanting to come over. We’re writing and allowing the arrangements to happen. It’s exciting.” This is good news for fans of the band, as the Arcade Fire has been quiet since finishing their tour in support of Neon Bible, with the exception of a handful of one-off appearances, including the staff ball during President Obama’s inauguration festivities a few months ago.

While Butler did admit that he and the rest of the band made a conscious decision to take a break, he said that they fell into playing together again recently and may create an album as a result. Butler wouldn’t confirm even a tentative release date for the Arcade Fire’s next album but did say, “It could be that we’ll play live [soon] and maybe we’ll end up bashing [another album] out fast. We’re in the middle of writing, things are coming together, it’s a great feeling.” In case Butler is right, check online for The Arcade Fire tickets.

A product of the musical breeding ground of Montreal, the Arcade Fire formed in the summer of 2003 after Butler and Regine Chassagne met while the latter was performing jazz standards at a local Concordia University art exhibit. They recruited organist Richard Perry, bassist Tim Kingsbury and Butler’s younger brother William (on percussion and synthesizer) and began playing experimental indie rock under the name the Arcade Fire. That same year, the newly-minted band released an eponymous EP, which showed influences ranging from David Bowie to U2, and soon signed with Merge Records. Despite the happy marriage of Butler and Regine, the band endured a trio of tragedies when Chassagne’s grandmother, the Butler’s grandfather, swing-era arranger and composer Alvino Rey and Parry’s aunt all passed away around the same time. The Arcade Fire’s appropriately titled debut LP, Funeral, arrived in September 2004 and received instant commercial and critical acclaim.

In the wake of their successful full-length album debut, the Arcade Fire remained on the road in support of the effort well into 2005, during which point they played high profile gigs at Coachella and Lollapalooza, earned a Grammy nod for Best Alternative Music Album and even landed on the cover of Time in their native Canada. The quintet then holed up in a church outside of Montreal to begin recording their sophomore full-length album. Neon Bible was an instant success upon its arrival in March 2007, scoring the number one spot on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums chart and boasting ambitious elements like a full orchestra, pipe organ and military choir. Neon Bible might be a hard act to follow, but something’s telling me the Arcade Fire is up to the challenge.

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