https://pitchfork.com/news/arcade-fire-win-butler-and-regine-chassagne-announce-separation/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null

Win and Regine of Arcade Fire, leaving Win free to sexually harrass as many college girls as he likes.

The band themselves are still forging on, in what I can only imagine is a thoroughly sour and depressing creative environment.

They had an album out this year called Pink Elephant, and I can say quite confidently I hadn’t heard that name or seen the cover until I looked it up just now.

Apparently it didn’t even make the Billboard 200 in the US, which is kind of insane given they had several no 1 albums and even the previous one got to no 6.

One by one the icons of the era of peak Babble/Pitchfork fall…