The suburbs
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August 2010 |
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64:07 |
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Markus Dravs , Arcade Fire |
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The Suburbs is the third album by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire . It was released in August 2010 on Merge Records in America and Mercury Records in Europe.
Track list
- The Suburbs - 5:14
- Ready to start - 4:15
- Modern Man - 4:39
- Rococo - 3:56
- Empty Room - 2:51
- City with No Children - 3:11
- Half Light I - 4:13
- Half Light II (No Celebration) - 4:25
- Suburban War - 4:45
- Month of May - 3:50
- Wasted Hours - 3:20
- Deep Blue - 4:28
- We Used to Wait - 5:01
- Sprawl I (Flatland) - 2:54
- Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - 5:25
- The Suburbs (Continued) - 1:27
- Suburban War is track 15 on the LP version of the album.
Album cover
The CD version of The Suburbs is available with eight different covers. They are all similar in structure; in the foreground below is each a car seen from behind behind a scene from a suburb (ger .: Suburb ). The car is an S-Class Mercedes-Benz from the 1970s (W116). In the upper right corner there is a relatively small lettering of the band; the album title, however, cannot be seen on the front of the cover at all.
There is also a special m4a version of the album, which the band sells on their website and which is also available together with the LP version of the album. In this version, called "Synchronized Artwork", each song has its own cover, on which the lyrics and a link appropriate to the context are displayed in sync.
Reviews
After the previous albums Funeral and Neon Bible were largely highly praised by the critics, The Suburbs follows on seamlessly. For example laut.de writes :
“Even if Arcade Fire never sounded so reduced and tidy, they create an incredibly dense, albeit elusive, atmosphere on" The Suburbs ". Anyone who wants to grasp the sparkling diversity of this enchanted record at the first attempted approach is simply doomed to failure. [...] this unique symbiosis of paralyzing sadness and rousing euphoria leaves you speechless on the third album too! "
The international reviews are also very positive. The NME compares the album with Automatic for the People by REM with regard to the combination of mass suitability and artistic ambition and awards 9 out of 10 points.
In Allmusic and the US edition of Rolling Stone , the album gets four out of five points, was also chosen by the magazine for the fourth best album of the year 2010; at Pitchfork Media 8.6 from 10.
Awards
The album won the 2011 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year . It was also nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal .
The album also appears in many of the year's best lists for 2010; Among other things, Pitchfork ranked 11th or Rolling Stone Magazine ranked 4. In a review on Plattentests.de , The Suburbs was even seen by readers and the editorial team as number 1 on the 2010 albums.