“It’s a season of change,” sing Win Butler and Régine Chassagne on Year Of The Snake. It’s a line delivered with the kind of sincerity Arcade Fire once wielded to great effect, but here, it lands with an unfortunate irony. Pink Elephant, their seventh album, does not so much signal renewal as it confirms a band in creative crisis.

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