I confess that, until recently, I had never heard of Arcade Fire, and then, suddenly, they were everywhere: performing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” this past weekend a band member was a guest panelist on NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me,” they’ll be part of a planned benefit for Hurricane Harvey victims.

When I Googled them, this is what The Guardian said: “Montreal’s band of multi-instrumentalist oddballs saved indie-rock in the 00s with sheer chorus-hollering, stadium-sweeping fervour-and championed suburban drudgery and Haiti en route.”

Nor sure what that means, but I can say with certainty that the vocal style and sound of their current hit, “Everything Now,” brings to mind 1988’s top 5 “A Little Respect” by British duo Erasure.

I’m thrilled to know this band and their sharp observations about our “everything now” content overloaded culture –as the song title implies.

Sample lyrics
 
Every inch of sky’s got a star
Every inch of skin’s got a scar
 
Every inch of space in your head
Is filled up with the things that your read
 
I pledge allegiance to everything now
Every song that I’ve ever head
Is playing at the same time, it’s absurd

The seven-member group has been on the music scene more than 15 years, has won a 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year, and has had several hits, but this is their first, coveted  #1 on a Billboard chart, a prize they reached last week on the Adult Alternative format.