Penny Arcade

According to the website of producer/engineer Markus Dravs, Montreal alt-rockers the Arcade Fire are in the process of recording the soundtrack to Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales)’s new film, The Box.

Although it has now been taken down from his website, Dravs had stated that “…. having finished Coldplay’s forthcoming album VivaLaVida - now off to Canada to work with Arcade Fire on a Sound-track for the forth coming Richard Kelly film…..”

The Box, an adptation of the Richard Matheson (the I Am Legend guy) short story Button, Button, concerns a down-on-their-luck couple (James Marsden and Cameron Diaz) who are given a box with a button in it; when they press the button, they will recieve a large amount of money. However, at the same time, someone they do not know will die.

Which means this is a good excuse to post this version of the Fire’s song “Intervention”, which appeared on last year’s Neon Bible album. This version, which I’m assuming was recorded for a radio session, a year before the album, features surf-style twangy guitar and strumming acoustic guitars, rather than the enormous organ and sense of dread in the final recorded version. I kinda prefer this version =/

Download The Arcade Fire - “Intervention” (Session)