Articles tagged "funeral"

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Arcade Fire

by Eddie Ciminelli

[8.Mar.07] :. There's nothing like spending Valentine's Day out in the cold...

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Band of the Year: An Interview with Arcade Fire

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[5.Mar.07] :. The artistic license offered by an indie label led to the darker and more ambitious Neon Bible. It brims with arrangements that include a symphony orchestra and a choir recorded in Budapest, Hungary, and a massive church organ. "It felt sometimes like we were making a film rather than a record," Win Butler says.

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Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

by Adrien Begrand

[2.Mar.07] :. After the dreamlike euphoria of Funeral, this much-hyped follow-up wakes up with one mother of a hangover.

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The Arcade Fire: Funeral

by Zeth Lundy

[16.Sep.04] :. Funeral is a truly eccentric rock record: bizarre at turns and recognizable elsewhere, equally beautiful and harrowing, theatrical and sincere, defying categorization while attempting to create new genres.

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