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Arcade Fire album due in May
Montreal troupe Arcade Fire has been at work on a third album throughout 2009, and it's likely to emerge mid next year.
Canada’s Arcade Fire is the band based around husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, who are known for their unique blend of textured, eclectic indie-rock. Along with multi-instrumentalists Richard Reed Parry, William Butler and Tim Kingsbury, violinist Sarah Neufeld and drummer Jeremy Gara, Butler and Chassagne have won over the critics as well as the likes of David Bowie and U2.
After releasing a self-titled EP in 2003, Arcade Fire released debut album Funeral through Merge Records in October 2004. After receiving a rating of 9.7 from Pitchfork Media, Funeral went on to finish in countless end-of-year polls and even resulted in the band appearing on the cover of Time magazine’s Canadian edition early in 2005.
Coming up with anything nearly as good as Funeral was always going to be a tough task, but when the Montreal band re-emerged in March 2007 with Neon Bible. While Neon Bible lacks the clear-cut singles of Funeral, the self-produced album has been praised as a more mature and consistent effort than its predecessor.
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Montreal troupe Arcade Fire has been at work on a third album throughout 2009, and it's likely to emerge mid next year.
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Montreal troupe Arcade Fire has a follow-up to 2007's lauded 'Neon Bible' in the works.
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Napoleon Solo said on May 5th, 2009
bhutos said on March 25th, 2009
Their abundance of hackery. Adding a violin to it doesn't help.
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