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The Suburbs |  | Artist: Arcade Fire
Label: Merge Records
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  86 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.3
UPC: 673855038520
EAN: 0673855038520
ASIN: B003O85W3A
Release Date: August 3, 2010
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| • | The Suburbs | | • | Ready To Start | | • | Modern Man | | • | Rococo | | • | Empty Room | | • | City With No Children | | • | Half Light I | | • | Half Light II (No Celebration) | | • | Suburban War | | • | Month Of May | | • | Wasted Hours | | • | Deep Blue | | • | We Used To Wait | | • | Sprawl I (Flatland) | | • | Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) | | • | The Suburbs (Continued) |
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Product Description
Written, arranged, performed, and produced by the Arcade Fire and co-produced by Markus Dravs, The Suburbs was recorded around Montreal and New York over the past two years.
Album Description
Vinyl LP pressing. Highly anticipated 2010 release from the critically adored Alt-Rock outfit. Written, arranged, performed and produced by the Arcade Fire and co-produced by Markus Dravs, The Suburbs was recorded around Montreal and New York over the past two years.The Arcade Fire's 2004 debut Funeral featured strongly in Album of the Decade Polls around the world including NME, Pitchfork, Guardian, Mojo and Rolling Stone. Their 2007 follow-up Neon Bible, debuted number 2 in the U.S. Both records were nominated for Best Alternative Album Grammys.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 86
 Don't miss it September 4, 2010
Michael Smith
This is a great album---don't buy a few songs and think you've got it. Like Green Day, you need the entire album. Unlike most new albums, multiple singers, multiple sounds,something new every time you listen. Almost like an old Beatles album with everybody doing more than expected. Don't miss this one, it is more than it seems, much more.
The Suburbs September 3, 2010
rudy s
Seriously...one of the best albums I have ever heard. I have listened to it 2-3 times a week since it came out
 Deeply disappointing September 3, 2010
M. P. Friedman (Spirit Lake IA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Arcade Fire was not an "instant get it" for me. I initially found both Neon Bible and Funerals overwrought, over-arranged, and sonically muddy. But they have long since both worked their way into my permanent playlist, and my listening world would be poorer without them.
So it was natural that I would give The Suburbs plenty of listening time before coming to a conclusion. Especially since many of my favorite albums of the past year, like New Pornographers' Together, took repeated listening to appreciate.
But no, time has not helped. There is little of the rhythmic and vocal urgency that made their earlier work such a delight, and the problematic mixing has gotten worse.
Sigh. Disappointed.
 Arcade Fire's diminishing returns September 3, 2010
John P. Flores (Sacramento, CA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I absolutely loved Funeral. That album has been in rotation since I bought it. I never grow tired of hearing Neighborhood 1. I purchased The Neon Bible with the great hope that the album would be nearly as good as the one that preceded it, but I found myself growing tired of it very quickly. Here it is, a few years later, and I rarely listen to a single song off of that album. I was hoping it was just the difficulty bands sometimes face when creating a masterpiece and then having to follow that album with one that, while rarely is as a good as it's older sibling, can at least can stand on its own.
The latest album from Arcade Fire is starting to make me think they are the M. Night Shyamalan of the music world; each new release is more and more disappointing. I try to give them the benefit of repeated listenings but each time I get less and less from The Suburbs. I hope that maybe it'll grow on me, but I have little hope for such luck. Borrow it from a friend before you buy it.
Yawn... August 31, 2010
Barry J. Toffoli (California)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
Is this supposed to a concept album. I don't know but it feels overblown though that other reviewer is WAY off anything on MTV is not indie... and wow My Chemical Romance? Anyway... I don't know why I don't care for it other than in my musical life I've always wanted to look back and not forward scouring what came before to see how what is popular today got here. And inevitably I find myself more and more unimpressed with new stuff because it has all been said and done before. I feel bad because it just get more jaded.
This album feels like the tried to hard to make a message and rock it. It feels like they really tried to put out something to make music critics drool over because the last album was just so good (I wouldn't know). I don't care about indie that term is bunk anyway. Jacqui Naylor is indie and she isn't on MTV or the radio so explain that.
Anyway. It is loud and rockin' and certainly better than most of the trash that we Americans collect and call music. But it is not better than stuff from the underground scenes of the 60s, 70s and 80s in my opinion. And I question when a band gets popular in the way Arcade Fire has. Does this mean they have become so generic they appeal to a wide base?
Sure this has always gone on but I would argue the quality was better back in the early days of rock. Dynamic range anyone? In the it feels bloated and pompous and self important. Not my bag.
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