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- Summary: The Montreal band return with their third studio album of soaring anthems and varied instrumentation, a pairing that has successfully secured their place as indie rock royalty.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock
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Businessmen drink my blood Like the kids in art school said they would And I guess I'll just begin again You say can we still be friends If I was... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 40 out of 43
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Mixed: 3 out of 43
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Negative: 0 out of 43
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Q MagazineThey may well have delivered their masterpiece. [Sept. 2010, p. 110]
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Jan 5, 2011With beats this straight and stolid, you'd better keep the anthems coming, and they do, almost.
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One of the 21st century's most intelligent and satisfying bands (musically, lyrically, emotionally) have once again set out their stall, and once again produced a work of inspired resonance, capturing truth after truth, in all its muddled, human realism.
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Even more so than its two predecessors, The Suburbs is an Arcade Fire album designed to be heard as a whole in a specific sequence.
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It's serious without being preachy, cynical without dissolving into apathy, and whimsical enough to keep both sentiments in line, and of all of their records, it may be the one that ages so well.
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The Suburbs ends on a dark, dystopian note with a little 90-second deconstruction of the title track, leaving you to wonder if the "screaming" alluded to earlier might not always be the joyful kind. That kind of ambiguity is what makes Arcade Fire's deceptively simple music all the more intriguing.
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It would help if the songs were better, but with all the up-and-down scales and chirp-chirp-chirpiness, the American Express commercial gradually gives way to a Riverdance special on pay-per-view.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 113 out of 128
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Mixed: 10 out of 128
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Negative: 5 out of 128
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