| Suburbs |  | Artist: Arcade Fire
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.3
UPC: 673855038520
EAN: 0673855038520
ASIN: B003O85W3A
Release Date: August 3, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | The Suburbs | | • | Ready To Start | | • | Modern Man | | • | Rococo | | • | Empty Room | | • | City With No Children | | • | Half Light I | | • | Half Light II (No Celebration) | | • | Suburban War | | • | Month Of May | | • | Wasted Hours | | • | Deep Blue | | • | We Used To Wait | | • | Sprawl I (Flatland) | | • | Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) | | • | The Suburbs (Continued) |
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 Powerful lyrics, beautifully textured sound, important message September 6, 2010
Catchlight (Vancouver Island, BC)
We live in a community which is about to decide whether to protect its rural character, tourism potential, and agricultural productivity, or to throw it all away by giving free rein to outside developers of substandard housing, ugly strip malls, and uncontrolled urban sprawl, so the emotions and insights triggered by the lyrics of Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" ring very true for us.
Add to this the fact that Sarah Neufeld, the band's brilliant violinist, grew up in farm country just north of our town on Vancouver Island, and the album's message becomes even more relevant and personal. I'm not sure how much input she has to the Butler brothers' writing process, but suspect that as a Merville girl she agrees with the thrust of their lyrics.
From the outset, Arcade Fire has been a band capable of sensuous and creative musical textures supported by multi-instrumental prowess and driving rhythms, and with "The Suburbs" they have generated even more aural appeal than "Neon Bible", which was a ground-breaking accomplishment sonically.
I highly recommend "The Suburbs" for anyone who appreciates a band that has achieved a convincing balance of musicality, creativity, and message. The reasonable ticket prices and superb performances at their concerts make Arcade Fire even more admirable. For a sample, check Google for a link to the webcast of their recent Madison Square Garden concert.
 I'm Gonna...... August 10, 2010
G. Walters (Vancouver, BC)
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm gonna release my own album & call it "The Soldiers took my little Sister & Bombed my Church" & it will be huge!! Seriously, three albums of songs about the same thing gets really tiring, yes there have been songs that caught my attention (title track is not bad) and even that one mentioned bombs going off. I wonder if the Arcade Fire are sitting back laughing at the critics and public that are eating up this supposedly "Deep & Profound" stuff that is actually just nonsense. This kind of reminds me of the guy in the band "Live" mentioning "intentions & Placentas falling to the floor" Mind you I don't dislike Arcade Fire as much as I HATE Live, but come on guys, grow a little and write songs based on your own experiences, not bigger than life, overly dramatic junk you have been writing. Last time I heard there weren't a lot of soldiers bombing churches in Canada or the U.S.
Beautiful songs about life and its relentless pursuit to wear us out August 6, 2010
Torval Mork (Calgary, Alberta Canada)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
In "The Suburbs" , their grandiose opus to the love handles to which many great cities succumb, Arcade Fire have conjured a concept album of beautiful odes to modernity, regret, despair and wasting time. From the opening track, through to the final reprise, the theme is tightly woven. Win Butler's lyrics unfold like short stories, each one serving an escapist mandate of looking back to the good old days of childhood, when innocence reigned and change was something that only adults had to deal with. In Suburban War "This town is strange, they built it to change", he forlornly observes that somehow these schemes are all planned out, and we can't escape the future. The future is the foe addressed in many of the songs - in We Used to Wait he sings "Now our lives are changing fast, hope that something pure can last," a common lament in these times of constantly upgrading, renovating and replacing things in our lives that we barely get to know before we throw them away. He also targets the faux authority of hipsters, accusing them in Rococo of "using big words that they don't understand" and "moving towards you with their colors all the same." Sprawl and and Sprawl II serve as bookends to a tale of being overcome by "dead shopping malls that rise like mountains beyond mountains." Butler begins part one with a sorrowful deconstructed tone, but when Régine Chassagne joins in on part two, the beat picks up and takes the form of a Blondie indie-remix, full of keyboards and a cheerful 80's beat. In fact, the keyboard is present on many of the tracks - not overabundant - but providing lush pads, rolling bass lines and symphonic accompaniment.
The Bruce Springsteen comparisons can still be made - certainly a compliment - but if anything Arcade Fire push their instrumentation in an unexpected direction at every turn. A real musical dissonance is evident right from the outset in the title track. Melodic strumming guitars and piano are met with sorrowful strings and a Neil Young Mirrorball-era lead guitar part, underlining the uncomfortable realization that "I can't believe it, I'm moving past the feeling." The orchestrations are richly constructed, layered up and stripped back down with the rise and fall of each song's story-line. The anthem quality is present in a number of the 16 tracks - which will surely be appreciated by fans of their live shows.
A fantastic album - which is no surprise coming from Arcade Fire.
Wow July 29, 2010
Kyle Rogers (Ottawa, ON Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album is probably the best album I have listened to that was released in the 21st century. Yes, it is that good. Every song on it flows and they all follow the same theme, bringing out all sorts of different emotions and even musical genres, ranging from indie rock (I consider that its own genre) to electro-rock from the 80s. I read somewhere that the influences from this album are Neil Young and Depeche mode mostly, and it really shows. That isn't to say that this album isn't wholly original on its own. I have not heard an album as original in my life since Funeral, which I may say this album surpasses. One reviewer for this album called it Arcade Fire's OK Computer, but is better than OK Computer. I fully agree. Enjoy this album while it lasts.
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