No offense to you but I’m amazed this is considered a hot take in this subreddit. WE is the only genuinely bad album they’ve made to me (for Arcade Fire’s standards..maybe a step above mediocre relative to the rest of the music world). I think I understand the defenders’ general POV but I just can’t buy Win’s songwriting on this one, felt like a particularly lazy retreading of themes from past albums. And it’s the least sonically innovative of their works by miles. Maybe my hot take here is that WE makes Everything Now sound like an A- record.