Arcade Fire has unveiled the title track of the band’s forthcoming seventh studio album, Pink Elephant, out May 9, 2025. Available now across all digital platforms and accompanied by a visualizer that can be seen here. The track is the second new song to be made available from the album.

The term “pink elephant” refers to that paradoxical effect where the effort to suppress a thought leads to it being impossible to avoid — as exemplified in the song “Pink Elephant” by the impassioned futility of the repeated refrain of “Take your mind off me.”

The first full-length collection of new Arcade Fire music since 2022, Pink Elephant is comprised of 10 new tracks of cinematic mystical punk, clocking in at 42 minutes. Pink Elephant is produced by Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, and Daniel Lanois and was recorded at Win and Régine’s own Good News Recording Studio in New Orleans.

When experienced in its entirety, Pink Elephant invites the listener on a sonic odyssey – a quest for life – that exists within the perception of the individual, a meditation on both darkness and light, the beauty within. The layers of this condensed epic unfold to reveal new dimensions with each successive listen.

In the lead-up to Pink Elephant’s release, Arcade Fire has embarked on a limited series of special gigs in select cities — including tonight at New Orleans’ Saenger Theater and London’s Royal Albert Hall on 14th May — performing the upcoming new album in its entirety.