Arcade Fire
Oh man, really behind on getting some of these new records up but I promise that this week will not fail to disappoint. Three new albums from three great bands which hopefully should appear up here shortly.
The new Arcade Fire album The Suburbs got me really excited, and after the first listen-through I was totally blown away. After the second listen I was a little less so, and now after a billion, I think it’s just okay. Granted the theme/concept idea is great and there are some superb examples of songwriting on this album (see ‘Suburban War’), but overall it didn’t give me that previous show stopping feeling at the start of every track. They are still an amazing band, I’m just sayin.. On a side note, there is one song that talks about San Francisco being over and it bummed me out because I have been looking for a new apartment forever and I could totally relate (on a certain level). Seriously though, I need to find a fucking apartment soon, and not one that’s a $2300 one bedroom. I’ll take their advice for real and leave. No Joke.
Arcade Fire – Suburban War
Arcade Fire – Ready To Start
Arcade Fire – Rococo
August 16th, 2010 at 10:25 am
we’ve been listening to this at work a bunch and have come to the conclusion this band is a collage of other people’s good ideas. you can practically pick the last two records apart riff by riff and find identical parts in some pretty obvious classic hits from Springsteen to Neil Diamond to Pixies, etc. – its become a game we play here to pass time.
dude, don’t sweat the SF bashing. this band is a little overly dramatic on all accounts, and SF rules no matter how many hurdles it seems you have to jump through to live there.