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  • From: Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Arcade Fire. I'm not insane.
  • Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:37:46 -0400

The new one hasn't done much for me (yet?). Thing is, if you really want to know what all the fuss is about, you need to hear the first album, "Funeral". That's the reason people like them. If you still don't like them after that, then, yeah, I suppose it is just a matter of taste . . . .

chris



Baby Messy wrote:
I watched them on SNL the other week and thought..."this is it?...why all the hype?" and I really thought I was missing something in my old age. I mean, as soon as you heard Radiohead you KNEW, love it or hate it, that there was something special there. So maybe I needed to dig deeper, and through the magic of Youtube, etc. I tried. Lord I tried.

My fave CD review cite, warr.org, reviewed them thusly:

Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (2007)
I wanted to get this warning out as quickly as possible: this Montreal indie septet is possibly the worst, most overhyped critics' fave band I've ever heard. I mean, at least the guy from TV On The Radio can sing. Lead "singer" Win Butler has no range or projection - he sounds like Lou Reed without the accent - and he's probably the best thing about the group. Pretension factor is through the roof with turgidly deep lyrics (title track) and pompous orchestrations (the pseudo-Springsteen "Black Wave, Bad Vibrations"). Meanwhile, musicianship is beneath the floorboards, with rote chord progressions ("Keep The Car Running"; "Antichrist Television Blues") and plodding tempos ("Intervention"; "My Body Is A Cage") - the band members play a zillion different instruments, but find nothing interesting on any of them. The two passable tunes are the typically overblown "No Cars Go" and the uptempo Franz Ferdinand-style rocker "The Well & The Lighthouse": they're still worthless melodically but at least have some energy. (DBW)


So whew. I'm not insane. Drinks on me!!!!
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