Album Review: The Suburbs

5/5

Arcade Fire, I bow down humbly towards you. This is the one of the best new albums I've heard since Metrics Fantasies. This is an album by the true meaning of the word. None of these songs sound like they should be similar. This is the Album of the Year for me. Much like The Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, this album has a theme, which is life, and living it how you do, in the sense of how you were brought up. It is an hour long, and that hour is one of the highlights that I've ever had from listening to albums. This is a landmark album, right up there with such albums like Nirvanas' Nevermind or R.E.M.s' Automatic for the People. These are the albums that make music fun to listen to, the reason to listen to, not just some release to find your feelings, this album gives you good feeling, instead of you feeling how the album feels(if you understand what that means). I have never been a huge fan of Arcade Fire, but I respected them, and though I never bought their second album(Neon Bible) I did quite enjoy their first album, which I bough brand new this year (Funeral) . I'm happy that this album got to Number One(abet 1 WEEK!?), and hope that more people understand what this band is, and what they're trying to do. What are they trying to do you may ask? With albums like this, they're not trying to return to they way things were, but to better the future, and to rid the world of people like Katy Perry and Justin Bieber(the last part is just my personal opinion of course). If you have not listened to this, you are really missing out on something truly great. Don't miss it(although please don't buy 8 different copies of the album to try and get the different covers. Just wait and buy them used if you must, cause your gonna blow your money doing that). (Also, may I note that the vinyl changes track 9 to track 15. I dunno why)