It took me a few times through Arcade Fire’s new album The Suburbs to really latch on to it, but now that I have, it’s easily emerged as one of my favorite albums of the year so far, and I’ll be shocked if it’s not in my top five come the end of the year. The Canadian ensemble hit The Daily Show With Jon Stewart promoting the album, and here they are performing “Ready to Start” and “Month of May.” I wish they’d done one with Regine on lead vocals, but hey, can’t have everything. There’s some cute interaction between Stewart and Win Butler at the beginning of “Month of May,” too.
via Pitchfork
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August 15, 2010
I have to agree with you. It’s a great, great album. Sounds like a Sept. tour date was just announced locally here. Is it just me though or is he “sneering” a bit at a certain segment of his fan base on this record like in Rococo for example, with lines like “Let’s go downtown and talk to the modern kids, They will eat right out of your hand
Using great big words that they don’t understand”…
August 16, 2010
I think Mike Rot saw them last week – we’ll have to hit him up to see how they were live. I’m sure the answer is awesome, but still. I’d love to see them, but I’m not sure I’m willing to pay stadium prices to do so. Wish I’d been at Lolla this year.
Not sure re: Rococo – I did wonder if “rococo” was supposed to be one of the “big words they don’t understand,” and I was like, but…I do know what “rococo” means! I listen more for music the first several times through an album – I’m only now starting to listen for the lyrics on this one.