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Arcade Fire: The Pink Elephant

On May 9, 2025, “Columbia” label released “Pink Elephant”, the seventh Arcade Fire studio album. It was recorded in 2024, and was produced by Win Butler, Régine Chassagne and Daniel Lanois.

Personnel:

  • Win Butler – vocals, backing vocals, synthesizer, acoustic and electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, Wurlitzer piano, organ, mellotron, bass guitar, drums, percussion, drum machine, theremin, cowbell; timpani, cymbals
  • Richard Reed Parry – electric guitar, bass guitar
  • Régine Chassagne – vocals, synthesizer, bass guitar, pedal steel guitar, theremin, mellotron, drums, bells, glockenspiel, timpani, programming
  • Tim Kingsbury – bass guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Jeremy Gara – drums, synthesizer
  • Daniel Lanois – pedal steel guitar, percussion
  • Dan Boeckner – electric guitar
  • Micah Nelson – electric guitar
  • Marley Mackey – synthesizer
  • Brian Blade – drums
  • Sarah Neufeld – violin
  • Gerardo “Jerry” Ordonez – engineer, mixing, co-production 
  • Eric Heigle – co-production, additional engineering
  • John Krischer – additional engineering
  • Maria Paula Mariño – engineer assistant
  • Emily Eck – engineer assistant
  • Marc Olivier-Germain – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.

  1. Open Your Heart or Die Trying
  2. Pink Elephant
  3. Year of the Snake
  4. Circle of Trust
  5. Alien Nation
  6. Beyond Salvation
  7. Ride or Die
  8. I Love Her Shadow
  9. She Cries Diamond Tears
  10. Stuck in My Head

Scorpions: Face the Heat

On September 21, 1993, “Mercury” label released “Face the Heat”, the twelfth Scorpions studio album. It was recorded in 1993, at “Little Mountain Sound Studios” in Vancouver, Canada, and was produced by Bruce Fairbairn,

Personnel:

  • Klaus Meine – lead and backing vocals, arrangements
  • Rudolf Schenker – rhythm and lead guitar, sitar, EBow, backing vocals
  • Matthias Jabs – rhythm and lead guitar, talk box
  • Ralph Rieckermann – bass
  • Herman Rarebell – drums, percussion
  • John Webster – keyboards
  • Luke Herzog – additional keyboards, arrangements
  • Helen Donath – opera voice
  • Rhian Gittins – girl’s voice
  • Paul Laine, Mark LaFrance – backing vocals
  • Bruce Fairbairn – backing vocals, arrangements
  • Mark Hudson – backing vocals
  • Erwin Musper – engineer, mixing
  • Mike Plotnikoff – engineer
  • George Marino – mastering
  • Hubert Kretzschmar – cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker, except where noted.

  1. Alien Nation
  2. No Pain No Gain – Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, Mark Hudson
  3. Someone to Touch – Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, Mark Hudson
  4. Under the Same Sun – Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, Scott Fairbairn
  5. Unholy Alliance
  6. Woman
  7. Hate to Be Nice
  8. Taxman Woman
  9. Ship of Fools
  10. Nightmare Avenue – Matthias jabs, Klaus Meine, Mark Hudson
  11. Lonely Nights