Will Butler Has Left Arcade Fire: ‘Time for New Things’
Two days after Arcade Fireplace introduced their upcoming album WE — and hours after the band staged a shock present in New York Metropolis — longtime member Will Butler, the youthful brother of founding member Win Butler, revealed he has left the band “Hello pals— I’ve left Arcade Fireplace,” Butler wrote in a sequence of…
Two days after Arcade Fireplace introduced their upcoming album WE — and hours after the band staged a shock present in New York Metropolis — longtime member Will Butler, the youthful brother of founding member Win Butler, revealed he has left the band
“Hello pals— I’ve left Arcade Fireplace,” Butler wrote in a sequence of tweets Saturday. “I left on the finish of final 12 months, after the brand new file was full. There was no acute motive past that I’ve modified—and the band has modified—during the last virtually 20 years. Time for brand spanking new issues.”
Hello pals—
I’ve left Arcade Fireplace— Will Butler (@butlerwills) March 19, 2022
Will Butler seems on Arcade Fireplace’s WE, which they recorded in 2021, however wasn’t onstage at current through the band’s current live shows in New Orleans and New York Metropolis. Will — who performed quite a lot of devices within the group, together with bass, synthesizers and percussion — joined Arcade Fireplace in 2003 and appeared on every of the band’s studio albums from 2004’s Funeral to the upcoming WE, due out Might sixth.
Butler tweeted that he has “just a few different tasks percolating,” in addition to proceed his activism work.
“Thanks to anybody who’s come out to AF reveals, or purchased a file, or loves our music. It’s significant to be a part of your lives. Thanks to the crew, workers, administration, label individuals, bands, artists, and pals who’ve helped carry our imaginative and prescient to life for thus a few years,” Butler added, reiterating that Arcade Fireplace “are nonetheless my family and friends.”
Arcade Fireplace, who will perform another surprise benefit show tonight at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, haven’t but commented on Will’s exit.