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- Summary: The Montreal band founded by husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne make their full-length debut with this highly anticipated disc.
- Record Label: Merge / Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
Wake Up | |
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Somethin' filled up My heart with nothin' Someone told me not to cry But now that I'm older My heart's colder And I can see that it's a... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 33
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Mixed: 1 out of 33
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Negative: 0 out of 33
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One of the best albums of the year, hands down.
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The stuff of magic.
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So long as we're unable or unwilling to fully recognize the healing aspect of embracing honest emotion in popular music, we will always approach the sincerity of an album like Funeral from a clinical distance. Still, that it's so easy to embrace this album's operatic proclamation of love and redemption speaks to the scope of The Arcade Fire's vision.
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Not only are the songs uniformly excellent, they also show a mastery of the art of controlled dynamics, of tension and release, that most young bands ignore to pursue the catharsis of sustained intensity.
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If I were to have just heard the first half of the disc, I probably would have proclaimed it the best of the year as well.
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The New York TimesOne of the year's best indie-rock albums. [3 Oct 2004]
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Marred by indie-rock clichés and occasional over-effort, it remains frustrating.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 338 out of 355
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Mixed: 12 out of 355
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Negative: 5 out of 355
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ISDec 30, 2004My vote for album of the year.
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MarkLOct 2, 2005One of the best albums of the last decade.
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KevinKApr 18, 2005
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KarenO.Aug 10, 2007Pure Class!! Will never go out of date a classic!
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Jun 25, 2013
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Oct 19, 2017
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joeKMar 7, 2007this album is rated way too high for something so bad
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