Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

The band have finished work on their third album, due for release mid- to late summer of 2010. The album is being produced by Markus Dravs, who produced their previous album, 2007's Neon Bible and engineered by Marcus Paquin, who has also previously worked with the band.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mji0mxSXt8Q

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These two new songs are surprisingly good, nothing of the irritating drama queen-theatrics of The Neon Bible.

http://pitchfork.com/news/38931-new-arcade-fire-single-is-out/

This is my (as in, I work there) record shop... whoops!

Is Month of May about the Habs riot?

These two new songs are surprisingly good, nothing of the irritating drama queen-theatrics of The Neon Bible.

― zeus, Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:36 AM (3 hours ago)

u_u

album called 'The Suburbs'.

maybe I should try to care, but I probably won't.

oh god no

http://pitchfork.com/news/38940-arcade-fire-announce-new-album/

the title's gotta be some sort of prelease joek -- good 1 Win

that being said, Neon Bible rules, so i'll be checking this out & hoping not to toss it in the Forgiveness Rock Record indie rock landfill

completely co-sign w/ zeus - digging the (comparatively) laid-back nature of these new tunes.

Both of the two songs previewed are yawnfests.

yep

THIS BAND SUCKS

goodbye thread

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The Suburbs is the upcoming third album by rock band Arcade Fire. The album will be released on August 2 in the UK and August 3, 2010 in the US.

1. "Saturday Morning" 4:48
2. "Month Of May" 4:02
3. "Latchkey Kids" 3:40
4. "The Suburbs" 5:15
5. "Sandbox/Turf War" 4:49
6. "In Iowa" 4:42
7. "La Maison Dieu" 5:95
8. "White Picket Fences" 3:07
9. "Flutey Harper" 5:10
10. "Asleep On The Beach" 6:20
11. "Where We Fell In" 2:57
12. "Never Stopped Running" 5:12
13. "Cars and Telephones" 5:05
14. "Vampire/Forest Fire" 22:18
15. "Neighbourhood #5 (Hockey)" 5:18
16. "Power Rebellion" 7:23
17. "No Cars Go" 9:00
18. "Yeah Toast!" 2:31

holy hell this is two hours long????

"Neighbourhood #5 (Hockey)"

omg

about 200 percent sure that's fake. also: "5:95"

it sucks that that's fake, that tracklisting actually made me pretty interested in this album

otm without the getting interested part

yeah it could be fake, got it from Wikipedia.

lack of french song title is a giveaway

"Neighbourhood #5 (Hockey)"

omg

― iatee, Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:03 PM (17 minutes ago)

if that is a real song title, massive massive massive loooooool

17. "No Cars Go" 9:00

yeah, "real" tracklist

7. "La Maison Dieu" 5:95

i mean 5:95 is a giveaway but that is french iirc

one of the previous edits of the Wiki entry for the record has song #18 as "Yeah Toast!"

"Rebellion Lies (Kelly Clarkson Cover)"

"Dymde Doo-doo (iTunes only bonus track)"

v. tru

Lima Beans - 3:55

i didn't list it because it's a iTunes bonus track only.

x-post

George W. Bush - 4:56

leaked btw

whaat

not really

lol

Someone took a leak alright.

indie rock is making me grow up too quickly in 2010 ;_;

by being awful

looking for love in all the wrong places

track listing has been deleted on Wiki.

;_;

curse you DMCA

ksh, love you dude, but you don't need to prove yr indie burnout in every thread. i mean, the last BSS rec was just as dull as this most recent one or the first one and it'll likely be ditto for the AF. i'm all in for people doubting on the hype darlins, but you shouldn't have to show how much you've grown in the last 6 months at every turn. honestly sorry if that sounds bitchy though.

Despite the dullness of the two previewed tracks, I still hold out hopes for the album. And I hope the bonkers tracklisting is true.

The "bonkers track-listing" is not true.

Who's up for doing a No Line On The Horizon on that track listing? I for one would like to hear Yeah Toast brought to life (w/ glockenspiel and sousaphone).

it would be hard to write a song called "Neighbourhood #5 (Hockey)" that wasn't totally awesome

We listened to this twice driving back from Key West, for the benefit of a skeptic. Still sucked.

"Lawyers in Love" is SO much a better song.

different strokes

I finally listened to some of The Suburbs and this is much better than previous Arcade Fire albums which I used to go out of the way to insult. I'm not a fan but I can no longer claim that I hate them - they moved up to meh

deciding to go more bland actually did them a favor imo

Turns out I'm a big fan of this album. Who knew?

pretty good but i dont even have it in my iTunes library on this computer and i never feel the desire to listen to it

off the top of my head, it's probably their worst record though

I never bothered with Neon Bible more than once or twice, but I've instinctively put on The Suburbs a number of times.

I dislike the debut, quite like Neon, and really enjoy this one.

Yeah I'm pretty shocked by how much I enjoy this

This album totally reminded me why I fell in love with them so hard 6 years ago.

This album grew on me in a way that Neon Bible never did. Not nearly as good as all the hype, but a good album.

http://www.arcadefire.com/the-suburbs-video/

so why's that dude beating up that other dude i mean what's the deal here

The suburbs! (Said in the tone of voice of 'The aristocrats!')

Loved the first, hated the second - only dipped my toe into this one but I really like "Modern Man".

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google is hard :(

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i find it very difficult to believe that there is any area of the arts where someone excels and Rosie wasn't on top of them from day one.

i feel like this is a halcyon moment for ilx's ongoing exploration of how popular indie rock actually "is"

all this shit is kinda making me want to defend arcade fire :/

i won't defend arcade fire since i don't care that much about them beyond several pretty great songs, but people like that never progressed beyond 10th grade imo.

rosie o'donnell wishes she was as funny as a 10th-grader.

too bad twitter wasn't around when steely dan won

"I was surprised that [The Suburbs] was nominated, but considering the competition, I was not surprised it won," explained Pitchfork Editor in Chief Scott Plagenhoef.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1657935/arcade-fire-grammy-award.jhtml

too bad twitter wasn't around when steely dan won

don't worry they'll win again.

For best metal Grammy?

in the new best-punk-revivalists category

New album is projected to be released late in 2013. Ample time to prepare for the obnoxiousness of AF fans.

AF fans don't seem all that obnoxious to me. Animal Collective fans and Decemberists fans can fuck right off, though.

Decemberists still have fans?

Sure, and they're worse now because you know they're die hard about it.

"The band (AF) had to leave their old studio, a church, because the roof collapsed, but they have a new space that's coming together as they work."
I sense an adventurous change of sound.

I really don't want to listen to the new one, but I think this one is increasingly great.

God no.

Hey, what can I do? I think it's a great, po faced Big Picture album, and I like the songs.

I for one agree. At first I was dismissive of the middle section of the album (the section from Half Light to Deep Blue), but after repeated listening I feel like the songs there are really strong.

Me too. Always hated the band but that album somehow struck something in me. They captured a pretty specific elegiac vibe

Playing this for the first time since the last time I posted - so, two years ago, more or less - and I still think this is their masterpiece. Hitting some songs in the middle I forgot about, like Half Light II and Suburban War, and they remain super powerful, imo. The rest of the album, too, songs like "We Used to Wait" and "The Sprawl" and "City With No Children" are just great melancholy anthems.

It's basically the album "Neon Bible" wanted to be but the band wasn't ready for yet. They needed to get a little more experience and a little more distance away from "Funeral." Conversely, I think the cynical meta-dance "Zooropa" wannabe last album was a tad premature in its attitude and vibe, which maybe means the next one will be a winner, too.

Man, I hope you're right. I liked Reflektor fine when it came out, but in retrospect it seems to be mostly filler. tbh I find the Will Butler record from last year more enjoyable. And though I know this is a stupid metric, the AF media presence during and after Reflektor irritated me, and as a result I'm fairly cynical about whether they'll produce anything great next time around.

That said, I think you're otm about The Suburbs. A lot of that record is really poignant and beautiful, and unlike Reflektor, the deep cuts that you forget about are actually really solid songs.

Yeah, that's what I meant by Zooropa (just as a loose comparison, since Zooropa is a great, great record). It was around that time that U2 flirted with "irony," which was a false construct, since Achtung Baby and I think Zooropa both contain some of their darkest and most creative music. It was the MacPhisto etc. media campaign that was what was so annoying c. that era of U2, reaching its apex around "Pop" (which is also a surprisingly dark record at times). Arcade Fire c. the last one flirted with that U2 model too much, with glitter suits and big heads and sort of this We Are Pretending to Be Pop Stars vibe.

this is a listless record done better by a half dozen early eighties Rush songs about the 'burbs, not to mention Cheever.

Boo. It's no "Power Windows," but I think it has plenty of list.

I expanded on that last post.

that’s like the best song on this record alfred

no wait nm i’m thinking of “deep blue”. still

the best song should sp-rawwwww-llll

The comparison to Rush is very apt/clever. All the same, I like this song.