Arcade Fire: 'Good albums will last'

Arcade Fire have insisted that albums will not die out in the music industry.

The group, whose latest studio set The Suburbs topped the charts in the UK and US earlier this year, said that they will continue to put effort into creating physical albums despite the popularity of digital formats.

Discussing their records, frontman Win Butler told The Scotsman: "I hope that something pure can last. A lot of things like that end up being memos.

"I keep trying to remember the good things that get lost along the way and trying to apply those lessons to the way the world actually is.

"I've been moved by albums a lot more than I've been moved by singles," he confessed, "and we're an album band. I'm not going to stop making albums because of some fad of digital distribution.

"The idea that you just have to make bad cheap stuff and sell it cheaply because the format changes, to me, is crazy. It's more important than ever to me to have the artwork and the recording be as great as they can be."

Arcade Fire recently claimed that they are not attracted by the "clichéd rock life".