The ‘We Used To Wait’ hitmaker said he appreciates in the
digital age how easily records can bypass people, and hopes the band’s latest
album ‘The Suburbs’ can stand the test of time.
He said: “I hope that something pure can last. A lot of
things like that end up being memos.
“I keep trying to remember the good things that get lost
along the way and trying to apply those lessons to the way the world actually
is."
Win also said that he doesn’t believe that the concept of
the album is dying out and despite the popularity of downloading individual
tracks and falling record sales Arcade Fire will continue to make full albums.
He added: “I've been moved by albums a lot more than I've
been moved by singles, and we're an album band. I'm not going to stop making
albums because of some fad of digital distribution.
“The idea that you just have to make bad cheap stuff and
sell it cheaply because the format changes, to me, is crazy. It's more
important than ever to me to have the artwork and the recording be as great as
they can be."
