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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (Merge)

...you paid me"). And now the Montreal-based Arcade Fire turn their attention to the suburbs and,... ...is the actual title of the album: it is Arcade Fire presents "The Suburbs" -- and that... ...the suburbs?) is worth considering. Whatever. Arcade Fire have sidestepped the staged grandeur of Neon...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2007 Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (EMI)

Yes, after the towering success of their debut album Funeral, you will be reading any number of reviews of this lavishly orchestrated, dramatic follow-up by this big Montreal-based ensemble. Let me be

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2am Orchestra: Impermanence (DJK)

...help from his friends) to be nothing less than Arcade Fire with hints of mid-period Radiohead. This is...

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The Doves: The Places Between; The Best of the Doves (EMI CD/DVD)

...by a rather more moody/broody Coldplay or Arcade Fire. It can be dark, throbby and engrossing stuff....

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Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back (EMI)

...well newer artists such as Elbow (Mirrorball), Arcade Fire (My Body is a Cage), Regina Spektor (Apres...

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The Antlers: Hospice (FrenchKiss/Border)

...which equally soars and rages in the manner of Arcade Fire at their most heroic, or possesses the...

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Dappled Cities: Zounds (Inertia/Border)

...may take themselves so are aiming more at the Arcade Fire end of the spectrum. And sometimes they pull...

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Various: Dark was the Night (4AD)

...(Bright Eyes) with Gillian Welch, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, Kevin Drew, Feist with Ben Bibbard, Andrew...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2010 Mumford and Sons: Sigh No More (Universal)

...album with widescreen producer Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire's Neon Bible) they bring some dramatic urgency...

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Malajube: Labyrinthes (Shock)

...to charms of Canada: we have acknowledged Arcade Fire, the collective Broken Social Scene, Patrick... ...their third album, who stake a claim in the Arcade Fire/grand noise camp and pull a thread of...

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The Antlers: Burst Apart (French Kiss)

...Sigur Ros (aural landscaping) and Arcade Fire (sense of grandeur and dynamics). To that list...

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Owen Pallett: Heartland (Domino)

...impressive. Pallett has done arrangements for Arcade Fire, Mountain Goats, Grizzly Bear, Mika and many...

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Arcade Fire: Miroir Noir (DVD/EMI)

...Fire deservedly won a massive and loyal audience... ...sepia-toned for effect, is immensely powerful. Arcade Fire are a band that people actually feel something...

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Arcade Fire: Everything Now (Sony)

...kids who self-harm, loneliness, cynicism). Arcade Fire have always looked beyond escapist pop and...

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Arcade Fire: Reflektor (Sonovox)

...new direction?" So it's hats off then to Arcade Fire who here across a double disc get in touch...

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Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Warp)

...in the manner of Fleet Foxes and before them Arcade Fire, but they've delivered an album of marvelous...

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Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha (Spunk) BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2007

...you. This is a real grower and could appeal to Arcade Fire and Richard Swift fans...

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The Frames, The Cost (EMI)

...album and it can be loudly thrilling in an Arcade Fire/Radiohead kind of way. They also revisit a...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Little Ross of Bird Nest Roys

...recent downloads include . . .) Neon Bible by Arcade Fire and my most recent download was Melanie...

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Duke Special: Songs From The Deep Forest (Shock)

...folk-rock, and somewhere in the gap between Arcade Fire and Rufus Wainwright (two reference points...

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Duran Duran: All You Need is Now (Shock)

...the Scissor Sisters, with Owen Pallett of Arcade Fire doing the string arrangements. But what...

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PETER GABRIEL CONSIDERED (2013): Having others blow his horn

...gender-shifted Don't Give Up). There's also Arcade Fire (a churning Games Without Frontiers) and...

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Attack in Black; Years (by one thousand fingertips): (Dine Alone/Shock)

...you can hear elements of Bonnie Prince Billy, Arcade Fire if they'd never plugged in, chugging pop-rock...

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HOWE GELB INTERVIEWED (2011): The price and pay-off of the path less traveled

...with the gospel choir I had the drummer of Arcade Fire right before he was in Arcade Fire, so it is...

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Two Cartoons: Tiny Terrors (Far South/Yellow Eye)

...and lo-fi hints of bands like Beach House, Arcade Fire, Field Music and Grizzly Bear, Two Cartoons...

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PHIL MANZANERA OF ROXY MUSIC INTERVIEWED (2010): When work is play

...by bands as diverse as the Scissor Sisters and Arcade Fire – with whom Roxy have played at...

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BEN WEBSTER AND ART TATUM CONSIDERED (2008): Genius loves company

...the best rock music was made back then and Arcade Fire, if they have heard them, aren’t a patch...

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White Lies: To Lose My Life (Fiction/Universal)

...(and Echo and the Bunnymen, moody Bowie, Arcade Fire, Joy Division . . . .) in their sky-scaling...

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Clinic: Visitations (Domino/EMI)

...around my place -- but this one, like the new Arcade Fire and the Kings of Leon album -- has just clung...

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Various Artists: When the Day is Done; The Orchestrations of Robert Kirby (Ace/Border)

...name for his work with the Mountain Goats, Arcade Fire and others – but once upon a folksy time...

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Family Cactus: Come Howling (Sony)

...(where they recall a more self-effacing Arcade Fire). Nowhere is that understatment more apparent...

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Andrew Keoghan: Every Orchid Offering (Fuchsia Kick/Rhythmethod)

...by Canadian artist Tracy Maurice (covers for Arcade Fire), Every Orchid Offering is a challenging...

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My Pet Dragon: Mountains and Cities (Gimme That Sound)

...is some of that emotional and sonic breadth of Arcade Fire at work (the Cinerama-pop of Crystal Ball, the...

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The Antlers: Familiars (Inertia)

...the musical and emotional midpoint between Arcade Fire and Sigur Ros. This time out their strange...

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Julia Jacklin: PRE PLEASURE (digital outlets)

...of string arrangements are by Owen Pallett (Arcade Fire, Mountain Goats, Grizzly Bear). That's the...

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Peter Gabriel: New Blood (Real World)

...songs entitled Scratch My Back (Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver etc) and it seems the deal was that...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2008: Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (SubPop/Rhythmethod)

...drummer.I guess we are living in the post-Arcade Fire days when music of such ambition is to be... ...Polyphonic Spree, Jason Collett, Mercury Rev, Arcade Fire, Band of Horses and a few other contemporaries...

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JOSE GONZALEZ INTERVIEWED (2004): Quiet is the new loud

...Banhart and Sufjan Stevens, and bands like Arcade Fire emphasising nuance over noise, Gonzalez has...

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Sigur Ros: Inni (XL CD/DVD)

...shows directed by Vincent Morisset (who did Arcade Fire's terrific Miroir Noir) and shot by Rob Hardy...

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Patrick Watson: Close to Paradise (Secret City/Elite)

...Polaris Music Award late last year (beating Arcade Fire's Neon Bible and the Feist album The Reminder... ...should appeal to the more chipper end of the Arcade Fire demographic as they make great heartfelt and...

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ONE WE MISSED: Devotchka: This Night Falls Forever (Concord/Southbound)

...kids). But closer reference points might be Arcade Fire, early Beirut and some of the left-field music... ...music set in, and a melting pot of bands like Arcade Fire and the Doves. But it always sounds like...

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Malcolm Middleton: A Brighter Beat (POD/Rhythmethod)

...melancholy of an Elliott Smith resurrected by Arcade Fire energy. This album has had unanimous acclaim...

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THE GREAT JB HI-FI VINYL MARKDOWN (2021): Darling, can I borrow your credit card?

...$15) Tori Amos: Native Invader (double, $10) Arcade Fire: New Day ($15) Asgeir: Afterglow Band of...

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MGMT: Congratulations (Sony)

Anyone who tuned in for the pop-silly, enthusiastic debut Oracular Spectacular by these guys knew they were smart cookies and going to be around for a while: they seemed the perfect post-modern pop pa

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Villagers: Becoming a Jackal (Domino)

Engrossing though the clear, strong voice of Conor J O'Brien out of Dublin is -- the chief feature of this quietly gripping album -- it is the insistent, poetic first-person, image-carving narratives

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AMMP: From the Back of the Sun (ampp.co.nz)

You have to admire -- and be something in awe of -- this four-piece from Wellington. They set their controls at "epic: stadium width" and manage to write and deliver material which matches t

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Stornoway: Beachcomber's Windowsill (4AD)

Named for a small town in the Outer Hebrides and affecting a kind of folksy pop, Stornoway from Oxford pull light and slightly satirical styles (We Are The Battery Humans with its references to people

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Damien Jurado: Saint Bartlett (Secretly Canadian/Rhythmethod)

With a lovely, sympathetic production by Richard Swift -- sort of budget-priced Phil Spector -- and melodies which swell with Fifties and Sixties pop-romanticism, this is one of those album (like Swif

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U2, ACHTUNG BABY TURNS 20 (2011): The handbrake turn

In Dublin, at the end of the final U2 concert on the Lovetown tour in 1989 -- broadcast to 200 million in a live radio link up -- Bono said they would now “go away and dream it all up again&rdqu

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Department of Eagles: Archive 2003 - 2006 (Bella Union)

Department of Eagles became the vehicle for Daniel Rossen and Fred Nicolaus to get their staccato sonic'n'sample experiments and increasingly dreamy pop into the wider world from their university dorm

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Radiohead; OK Computer (EMI)

Just as Achtung Baby and Zooropa represented a watershed period for U2, so The Bends of '95 and especially OK Computer of two years later marked a turning point in Radiohead's still-young career. On r

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The Coral: Butterfly House (Shock)

Sometimes sounding like an odd collision in the studio of early Echo and the Bunnymen and America, Liverpool's the Coral here deliver their big songs (big on melody, choruses, drama and references) wi

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