Arcade Fire's Will Butler Has Been Writing A Song Per Day, And They're Actually Awesome — mtv.com

Arcade Fire‘s Will Butler is not only reading the news every day this week — like the well-informed citizen of the world that he is — he’s taking his education one step further: Each day, Butler will be writing a song inspired by a story in the Guardian. This is where you feel inadequate. Thus far, Butler has penned two stellar tracks: “Clean Monday,” which juxtaposes Greek’s debt payoff planning with Clean Monday, its version of Ash Wednesday, and “Waving Flag,” which deals with anti-apartheid hero Moses Kotane’s remains being repatriated from Russia and the celebration of Defender of the Fatherland Day by Ukrainian separatists. Pretty mundane stuff.

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