After running through a full set of new material in Brooklyn earlier this month, The Arcade Fire’s Will Butler has announced the upcoming release of his debut solo record, Policy. Released in March 2015 on Merge Records, Butler’s album is expected to include some of the art-rock minded songs he played a few weeks ago, including Take My Side, Finish and Surrender.
According to Merge “Policy is American music—in the tradition of the Violent Femmes, The Breeders, The Modern Lovers, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, The Magnetic Fields, Ghostface Killah. And John Lennon (I know, but it counts). Music where the holy fool runs afoul of the casual world.
Policy was recorded in one week in Jimi Hendrix’s old living room (upstairs at Electric Lady Studios). Jeremy Gara played drums; other musicians contributed woodwinds and backing vocals. Most everything else was played by Will.”
You can hear snippets of several Policy tracks in the trippy trailer that Butler just released above.
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