Arcade Fire's Funeral was inspired, and Neon Bible was brilliant (and both were suggestively atheistic). But their new album, The Suburbs, is exquisite.
I don't understand people who don't own and love Arcade Fire's albums. You might as well worship some god....
I've been listening to a lot of new music this year...a LOT. I've liked a lot, too, but this album is different. I'm not going to say it's my favorite album of the year necessarily, but when I listen to it, I feel like I'm eating an enormous, incredibly rich meal. It's so textured, so dense, that it's almost overwhelming at times. By the time it's over, I feel full, and any other music is the equivalent stale rice cakes for the rest of the day.
ReplyDeleteIt's overwhelming and heart-breaking, brilliant and simple; more than that, it's a hard album to categorize.
ReplyDeleteBut I think, between the two of us, we did it.