The always cryptic, a little bit morbid, Candian-wonder band Arcade Fire are releasing their latest album The Suburbs, have you heard? I felt as though I should write a little something about it, to pledge my allegiance to the Toronto music scene with an ode to our indie representatives, Arcade Fire. Although somehow I feel like all this hype and all these obscure secret shows are a little self-indulgent. I do enjoy the album, and that it is thematically inspired by The Suburbs, which is a modern social experiment in isolating communities, I think the suburbs are a bizarrely kept place. The songs are about fading childhood memories, trying to keep them, but the background starts to all look the same. My favorite tracks are Modern Man, City With No Children, and Deep Blue. The album in it’s entirely is rich and dark, it’s definitely mood music. There’s a sadness in The Suburbs, and they capture it and release it quite eloquently.

Arcade Fire- The Suburbs (Continued)

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Tracklist

01 The Suburbs
02 Ready to Start
03 Modern Man
04 Rococo
05 Empty Room
06 City With No Children
07 Half Light I
08 Half Light II (No Celebration)
09 Suburban War
10 Month of May
11 Wasted Hours
12 Deep Blue
13 We Used to Wait
14 Sprawl I (Flatland)
15 Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
16 The Suburbs (continued)

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