Arcade Fire recently announced the release of their long-awaited fifth album, Everything Now. It’s set to be released in a couple of months, and apart from a promotional single, not much else is known about the contents. But it seems like a Twitter account may have spilled the beans about the record’s track listing.

As Pitchfork reports, a Twitter account named after the band’s new record (which was also named in a press release from the group), started sending out anagrams of track titles on the record. Pitchfork also note that these anagrams happen to line up with a rumoured track list that was shared by a user on Reddit recently as well.

The account started this supposed ‘leak’ of titled with a message that simply said “The @arcadefire asked us not to reveal the #EverythingNow track list, but they didn’t say we couldn’t do ANAGRAMS! So here we go.” Soon after, they started sending out a number of Tweets that contained anagrams of the supposed titles.

The official Arcade Fire account was pretty quick to catch on though, sending out a message asking the account to stop. “Please stop with the track list anagrams, @EverythingNowCo,” it began. “We’ll reveal the song names when we’re ready. Not cool.” The series of Tweets were even suspended briefly while ‘their lawyers had a friendly chat with the band’s’.

Of course, the messages continued until all the tracks were out. So this of course raises a few questions. Firstly, are these titles legit? Is this account actually just Arcade Fire in disguise? Were the band actually angry with the Twitter account, or is this all part of a publicity stunt? We’ll know for sure when the album drops at the end of July, but until now, read the entire series of Tweets below to catch up.

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