singing hallelujah with the fear in your heart

it's christmas. well, it was. so i've given myself a little present. came online to cddb a couple of cds i'm ripping to my phone and just thought i'd have a little look on the arcade fire website while i'm waiting. i like arcade fire. a lot. i'd been telling myself that i wouldn't be downloading anything from their album and would have the will power to wait til it could get my grubby little hands on it in the shops. a couple of weeks ago zane lowe had the world exclusive play of a new song 'intervention'. obviously within a couple of hours it had appeared on the internet and i was downloading it. i justified that one by thinking that it was actually just a new version of a song which i've had an acoustic early version of for about a year, so that's fine really. and it's got church organ on it, so it's a bit christmassy. it's all rather wicked. the other day intervention went on sale on the US iTunes store. except it didn't. someone fucked up. they uploaded the wrong song, labelled it as intervention and let the internet do its worse. which is how i came across it and downloaded it and am listening to it now. which is definitely breaking the rules. it's called 'black wave/bad vibrations' and i like it. it's different to funeral. but it's the arcade fire. and it's new. and the goddamn album's not out til march 26th, so it's going to be hard hard work getting through the next three months.