POP Montreal: Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry gets back to nature

I had an hour to kill before interviewing Richard Reed Parry a couple weeks back, so I headed to Jeanne-Mance Park, where I sat on a bench and took in the gently sweeping sounds of the Arcade Fire member’s second solo album, Quiet River of Dust, Vol. 1.
Let me first say, this never happens. Sad but true, I don’t spend my days wandering city parks listening to music. And yet, to borrow a line Parry used a few times during our talk, “it’s not a coincidence.”
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