Interview: Arcade Fire's mainstream experiments born out of curiosity

Richard Reed Parry almost gave it all up to become a goatherd.
Well, not quite, but following Arcade Fire’s recently completed European tour, the multi-instrumentalist was past the point of exhaustion; he had brought his bike along, and someone made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
“I knew I was going to do something fun and have an adventure at the end of the tour,” he said Wednesday afternoon, having safely returned home to Montreal a few days before.
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