Will Butler
William Pierce Butler (born October 6, 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is best known as a former member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire, with whom he recorded six studio albums. Butler was a member of the band for eighteen years, between 2003 and 2021, and played synthesizer, bass, guitar and percussion. He is known for his spontaneity, energy and antics during live performances and is the younger brother of Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler. In 2010, he won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year as part of Arcade Fire.
In 2014, Butler was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for his work on the original score of the 2013 film Her. In 2024, Butler was nominated for two Tony Awards for his orchestrations & score of the play Stereophonic, which itself was nominated for and won Best Play. Butler has released three solo studio albums – Policy (2015), Generations (2020), and Will Butler + Sister Squares (2023) – on Merge Records.
Generations
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Friday Night
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Policy
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Dark Night
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Burn It Away
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Sun Comes Up
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