Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (CD)
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When The Suburbs won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammys, it felt like a genuine upset, a sprawling, 16-track meditation on memory and restlessness breaking through in a category that rarely rewards music this ambitious. Arcade Fire had spent the better part of a decade building toward this moment, from the grief-soaked urgency of Funeral to the dystopian sprawl of Neon Bible, and The Suburbs landed as their most emotionally complex statement yet.
Reissue. The Suburbs is the third studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, originally released in August 2010. The album's lyrical content is inspired by band members Win and William Butler's upbringing in The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb of Houston. According to Win Butler, the album "is neither a love letter to, nor an indictment of, the suburbs - it's a letter from the suburbs". The album was recorded in Win Butler and Régine Chassagne's residence in Montreal, with some parts being recorded at the band's studio in Quebec and in New York City. Win Butler describes the overall sound of The Suburbs as "a mix of Depeche Mode and Neil Young", stating that he wanted the album to sound like "the bands that I heard when I was very young, and wondered what those crazy noises were".
UPC: 889854624828
Label: Sony Legacy
Release Date: 1.5.18
Format: CD