Album Review: The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
Joseph Landor on August 4, 2010 in College Entry No Comments »Lazy summer days. White picket fences. Tall green grass. The scent of freshly laid bark. Culs-de-sac and bare hands and feet imprinted with pebbles in the pavement. The suburbs.
This is what my childhood nostalgia is composed of — and Arcade Fire succeeds in disassembling theirs to find its key components in their newest album The Suburbs.
Sugar, spice and everything nice, however, aren’t the only things to be brought to the surface in the band’s exploration. The Suburbs is a coming-of-age story of heartbreak, identity-searching and skeletons.
It comes as no surprise that the band has continued in their nostalgia-inducing quest, post-Where the Wild Things Are, as “Wake Up” became the guiding coming-of-age anthem for the film. This time around, the resonance is maintained, if not strengthened.
A true testimony to the band’s transcendence? You’ll forget these singers are more than 30 years old, merely reflecting on their years of youth in song. That falsetto and
