

Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. The band's current touring line-up also includes former core member Sarah Neufeld and multi-instrumentalists Paul Beaubrun, Dan Boeckner and Eric Heigle. Each of the band's studio albums features contributions from composer and violinist Owen Pallett.
Founded in 2001 by friends and classmates Butler and Josh Deu, the band came to prominence in 2004 with the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Funeral. Their second studio album, Neon Bible, won them the 2008 Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year. Their third studio album, The Suburbs, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim and commercial success. It received many accolades, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year, the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album. In 2013, Arcade Fire released their fourth album, Reflektor, and scored the feature film Her, for which band members Will Butler and Owen Pallett were nominated in the Best Original Score category at the 86th Academy Awards. In 2017, the band released their fifth studio album Everything Now, which was succeeded by their sixth studio album We in 2022.
All the band's studio albums have received nominations for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammys. Funeral is widely considered by music critics to be one of the greatest albums of the 2000s. The band's work has also been named three times as a shortlist nominee for the Polaris Music Prize: in 2007 for Neon Bible, in 2011 for The Suburbs and in 2014 for Reflektor.
The band has been described as indie rock, art rock, dance-rock, and baroque pop. They play guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, glockenspiel, keyboard, synthesizer, French horn, accordion, harp, mandolin and hurdy-gurdy, and take most of these instruments on tour; the multi-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows.
Today, because of the accusations against Win, all Canadian radio stations removed Arcade Fire from their playlists. I wonder what RP will do ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entert...
I guess you have your answer. . . .
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entert...
I have grown to love mostly their first two albums after attending the *fabulous* concert they gave some years ago at the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland.
Before this concert, admittedly, I didn't get them at all.
I can't say that I'm really fond of this one song here, but I don't think it's fair to call them "mediocre" or what not. Not once you've seen the energy and creativity they're capable of live. All of them, together!
I admire and respect them. So they don't live up to the hype with each and every song they do ? That's not their fault.
"Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère!", which is itself a reference Baudelaire's Les Fleur du Mal.
I was thinking the other way around. At least Arcade Fire are new, fresh and have something to say. DB is yesterday's man.
Asbestos suit donned....
Is it a ridiculously oversized (David Byrne-style) asbestos suit?
I was thinking the other way around. At least Arcade Fire are new, fresh and have something to say. DB is yesterday's man.
Asbestos suit donned....
That sure is some intense drumming.
Man oh man...those vocals sure punch through.
And those lyrics are just so Dylan-esque.
But the guitar playing...I mean it's mezmerrizing.
But the best part is that dainty and quaint vocal yelping.
I bet they have a warehouse full of awards they won.
I didn't know this song, but listened up recognizing the Arcade Fire touch.
I have grown to love mostly their first two albums after attending the *fabulous* concert they gave some years ago at the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland.
Before this concert, admittedly, I didn't get them at all.
I can't say that I'm really fond of this one song here, but I don't think it's fair to call them "mediocre" or what not. Not once you've seen the energy and creativity they're capable of live. All of them, together!
I admire and respect them. So they don't live up to the hype with each and every song they do ? That's not their fault.
And a couple of years ago they absolutely turned the mundane Hallen Stadion in Zürich on it's head. Upped it with three encores!!!