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Had Steve Reich been asked to score Lawrence of Arabia instead of Maurice Jarre, it might have sounded something like Bell Orchestre’s As Seen Through Windows. The latest release from the Arcade Fire side-project is a curiosity cabinet full of cinematic pastiche afloat an ocean of nostalgic grandeur, encapsulated in a sea-worn bottle, united only by the vague promise of land.

As Seen Through Windows begins inauspiciously at the heels of its predecessor, Recording A Tape In The Colour of the Light, amidst an engendered backdrop of horns and woodwinds before putting on a more worldly weight with the introduction of...