We Were Already, Already Bored

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Do music videos sometimes help you fall for music that you've been having a tough time with? By the time it'd been out a month or so I liked Arcade Fire's latest album The Suburbs but I wasn't head-over-heels for it, which was making me a little sad since I liked their previous album Neon Bible so much. I had love to give! And it wasn't connecting. Well then along came Spike Jonze's music video for the title track and it was a revelation. His images shuffled the right tone into place and ever since the album's slowly but surely stepped up my playlist. It's on all the time. So this news via Pitchfork is sounding mighty fine to me:

"When Ryan Dombal spoke to Arcade Fire's Win Butler last August, Butler mentioned "a science-fiction B-movie companion piece" to last year's album The Suburbs made in collaboration with filmmaker Spike Jonze. We saw part of that project in the video for the album's title track. But now, Consequence of Sound reports that the full film, titled Scenes From the Suburbs, will debut at the Berlin International Film Festival, taking place February 10-20 in (where else?) Berlin, Germany.

A press release for Berlinale Shorts, the category in which the film is set to appear, states the following about the film: "Spike Jonze expands the music video into a film without abandoning the structure of a clip. The future has become reality. And the threat lies in the proximity of the military. Memories of a past summer."

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