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- Summary: One of the most anticipated releases of 2007 is this second album from Montreal's Arcade Fire, the Win Butler- and Regine Chassagne-led band that won over bloggers, critics, and, ultimately, fans with their 2004 debut 'Funeral.'
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
Keep The Car Running | |
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Every night my dream's the same Same old city with a different name Men are coming to take me away I don't know why, but I know I can't stay There's... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 46
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Mixed: 3 out of 46
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Negative: 0 out of 46
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The Canadian septet are the greatest art rock group since Talking Heads stopped making sense.
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Q MagazineA magical kingdom of noise that's equal parts Disney's Fantasia and Echo & The Bunnymen's lavish Ocean Rain. [Apr 2007, p.107]
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In the bleakest songs, the polyphonic swirl of strings, horns, and voices... points toward transcendence.
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Although they've expanded their sound, the Arcade Fire's transition into extroversion isn't always smooth or graceful. Neon Bible is full of clunky lyrics, revealing Butler's tendency to overstate and sensationalize.
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BillboardBombast occasionally gets the better of the songwriting, but that's a small complaint on an album that gets nearly everything just right. [10 Mar 2007]
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If "Neon Bible" doesn't quite dazzle as "Funeral" did, that's more a measure of the latter album's benchmark brilliance, rather than the inferiority of the former.
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This veers between quite good and bloody rubbish with only a couple of flashes of brilliance here or there.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 267 out of 339
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Mixed: 53 out of 339
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Negative: 19 out of 339
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Dec 10, 2012
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JeremySMar 9, 2007
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AlexCApr 25, 2007
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DaveHFeb 6, 2007
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pendepomoApr 9, 2007awsome, it actually blowed my mind, i thought the sound changing would be a bad thing, but they made it, in amother way, but they did great
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AndrewPMay 9, 2007
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SteveMar 2, 2007Why does this band get such high nods all the time. They are total crap.
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