ARCADE FIRE FEAT DAVID BOWIE REFLEKTOR

So much hyped up conjecture surrounding this song. It is an Arcade Fire mythos. Yes, we can go through the exciting tales of the is-this-or-is-this-not-the-artwork collection, or better yet, we can regale you with the Legend of The Leak - in which this song is leaked online to a chorus of frantically typing keyboards glazed with excited sweat - or the Ballad of James Murphy, in which saves the world hourly with indie-tinged disco production; hey, and what about that thing with David Bowie possibly singing on this track? That's the ghost story part. Sometimes, late at night, you can hear Bowie's spacey vocals caressing the very air itself: "Just a reflection, of a reflection, of a reflection, of a reflection". Spooky stuff innit. Worthy of rumour.

So anyway, to be fair, if indeed Bowie does feature on this song, called 'Reflektor', that's pretty cool. I like that. There's also a girl singing in French at some points - and I like French, too. But what first struck me about this song wasn't all these additional niceties, nor the fact that Arcade Fire are proverbially "back"; no, it was merely a case of that old-fashioned thing of a song just sounding good. I guess though, in a way, that has something to do with the fact that Mr LCD Soundsystem, J. Murphy himself is producing the upcoming Arcade Fire album, also titled Reflektor. Maybe that's why it sounds so nice. At the very start, when everything is stripped back, and all you can hear are the disco-infused beats, the feet-possessing bongo taps and lead-me-to-the-dancefloor octave-skipping bass, it could be an LCD song. Do you not think?

It oozes a glam kinda menacing funk disco flavour, old-school strings gracing the track every now and again. Guitar chords whisper in and out aiding the progressive nature of the song, a brass section helping to give it the glitz of multi-coloured flashing dancefloors and roller-discos and stuff like that. The beat gets busier with the hi-hat getting more fidgety, and the true nature of emotional disco comes to light with tense-moment strings and dramatic piano chord progressions. It slowly becomes quite an epic song.

Let's just say it's down to all elements involved. We can't say it's all down to Mr Murphy - that would just be unfair. However, I suppose you can say that he might've pinned down the disco sound. Who can say? Who knows. Anyone can progenerate conjecture till the cows come home, you know what I mean? Let's just say: it's a good song. Let's leave it at that and wait till the album is on its way out. Till then, I will not be keeping up with the gossip, I'm afraid. It was supposed to be out tomorrow but now everyone's heard it. C'est ça.

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MASTERCARD & BRIT AWARDS 2012

Do you have a MasterCard? If so you're in luck. You can book priority tickets for the BRIT Awards 2012. Not bad eh? It all comes from MasterCard's long-term partnership with the UK's biggest music event - bar Glastonbury perhaps.

Tipped for big big success at 2012's BRITs is Adele, who (alongside others, like Cee Lo Green and Arcade Fire) absolutely smashed this year's with a live performance of her radio-exploding song, 'Someone Like You', shortly afterwards becoming the aural currency by which many pop-lovers did business.

She claimed it to be "the most life changing night" of her life. "Everyone stood up," she said. "I've never been given a standing ovation by my peers and the industry." And all the better for it; she gets embarrased singing about missing her ex-boyfriend, the one who inspired her 21 album, so it was a massive achievement for her.

So if you'd like to be part of an audience that is privvy to witness such a life-altering thing as an artist receiving recognition for their talents, artistic and creative, then it's all the better for you if you do indeed have a MasterCard. Until 24th November, you can book those priority tickets and get some prime seats before they go on general sale to the hoi polloi.

This all comes as part of MasterCard's Priceless Cities offering - have a look there to see what you could get. There's all sorts, from visits to the capitals best museums and stately homes to West End musicals. And it's all for you fortunate MasterCard holders.

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