Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze Team Up on Sci-Fi Short

Pitchfork did an interview today with Arcade Fire's lead man Win Butler, where he mentions working with Spike Jonze on a sci-fi project inspired by their latest album, "The Suburbs." He explains:

Basically, we played Spike some music from the album and the first images that came to his mind had the same feeling as this idea for a science fiction film I had when I was younger. My brother and I and Spike wrote it together, which was really fun-- it was like total amateur hour. We shot it in Austin and a lot of kids are in the film, and it was great just hanging out with these 15-year-olds for a week and writing down all the funny things they said. It was cool to revert to being a 15-year-old for a little while.

You can listen to the album here, courtesy of NPR.