Arcade Fire’s Will Butler Recorded Solo Album in Jimi Hendrix’s Living Room

November 24, 2014

Arcade Fire‘s Will Butler has announced the approach of his debut solo record, Policy. Set to arrive in March of 2015 (via Merge), Butler’s concept of Policy is reportedly American music in the vein of the Violent Femmes, The Breeders, The Modern Lovers, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, The Magnetic Fields, Ghostface Killah and John Lennon.

According to the Merge Records album page, Policy was recorded in one week in Jimi Hendrix’s old living room (upstairs at Electric Lady Studios). Jeremy Gara played drums; other musicians contributed woodwinds and backing vocals. Most everything else was played by Will.

Several song snippets from Policy can be heard in the album trailer below, which is appropriately trippy and abstract:

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