Open Your Heart or Die Trying
2026 studio album by Arcade Fire
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Open Your Heart or Die Trying is an ambient studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on April 18, 2026.[1] The album is a companion piece to the band's 2025 release Pink Elephant, reinterpreting the tracks as experimental ambient music.
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| Released | April 18, 2026 | |||
| Genres | Ambient, Drone | |||
| Length | 36:04 | |||
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The album was first released as an exclusive for Record Store Day,[2] and followed with a digital release on May 1, 2026.[3]
Background
On May 9 2025, Arcade Fire released Pink Elephant, their first album since 2022, following a period of public scrutiny and misconduct allegations against Butler.[4] The album was met with mixed reviews and failed to chart on the Billboard 200 in the United States, becoming the band's first album to do so.[5][6] In September 2025, Butler and Chassagne separated after more than 20 years of marriage.[7] Open your Heart or Die Trying was released several months later in April 2026.
Open your Heart or Die Trying is considered a companion album to Pink Elephant, released during a period of Arcade Fire that is regarded as "complicated" and creatively divisive.[8][9] It is a "cinematic" ambient reinterpretation of Pink Elephant.[8][2] The Facebook account for Arcade Fire described the release as a "sonic landscape, a score to a film that hasn’t been made yet".[10]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Open Your Heart or Die Trying (Director's Cut)" | 8:41 |
| 2. | "Pink Elephant's Dream" | 5:28 |
| 3. | "Season of Change" | 2:58 |
| 4. | "Trust Fall" | 2:51 |
| 5. | "The Machine is Broken" | 3:20 |
| 6. | "Mountains are Moving" | 1:59 |
| 7. | "Breaking into Heaven" | 4:21 |
| 8. | "Quit Your Job Meditation" | 6:26 |
| Total length: | 36:04 | |