Coachella 2022 with emotional set, Arcade Fire, ‘grown up’ and reflective

Coachella 2022 could have been on their death bed if days of indie rockers being able to splash, Arcade Fire may have shown up just in time to save the day. 

Appearance of band was announced only a day before their set, which proved to be the perfect surprise for anyone missing those days when band was offering orchestral instrumentation and deep, thematic lyrics could get top billing.

It’s been around seven long years since Arcade Fire did just that, those days didn’t feel so far away as a crowd packed the Mojave stage that could only be described as emotional.

Things did get off to trouble at start after lead singer Win Butler had to stop singing only some moments after launching into their new single, “The Lightning I,” from their forthcoming album “We.”

If audience was “waiting for the lightning,” they started to get it as new launch of the companion song, “The Lightning II.” In the end of song, the audience was loudly clapping along and Butler was triumphantly holding his guitar above his head.

The show’s emotional moment came soon, when Butler stopped to remind the crowd about how Coachella was where when Arcade Fire was “introduced to the world in 2005.”

“We came here as children,” he said. “We are not children now.”

Butler then also invoked the COVID-19 pandemic for the first of few times during the show, noting that it has “been a time of incredible change but we can’t let it change or break us.”

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