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Larkinhill
March 28th 2023


7774 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

First listen and goddamn this album is brilliant. Every single song is fantastic.

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 28th 2023


60433 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

this album wears its soggy arse on its sleeve it is the biscuit

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
March 28th 2023


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Neighborhood 4 and Crown of Love are okay but everything else is amazing. Still grateful I saw them live in 2014 with seats right near the stage.

Kompys2000
Emeritus
March 28th 2023


9458 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I've heard this album like a hundred times and couldn't hum 7 Kettles or Haiti from memory lol



Tunnels and Une Année on the other hand will be found inside my bone marrow when I die along with the good half of The Suburbs

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 28th 2023


60433 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

imo Haiti's bassline and central jingle are two of the more memorable melodies here (and I fell out of love with that track a while back; haven't listened in years)

7 Kettles is a tad underrated (if terminally unhummable) but Crown of Love rly do be total gaff

FrozenFirebug
March 28th 2023


845 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

sucks that these guys never made another album

Artuma
March 28th 2023


32769 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

lol

Kompys2000
Emeritus
March 28th 2023


9458 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Lmao jingle is a good choice of words for the main Haiti riff since it is misfiled in my mind as being from an Old Navy commercial or something similar

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
March 28th 2023


27464 Comments


first 4 songs r best. robertsona theory

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
March 28th 2023


60433 Comments

Album Rating: 4.7

extremely lukewarm hand gestures

Demon of the Fall
March 29th 2023


33811 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

'sucks that these guys never made another album'

Haha. Well... erm, I did get into Neon Bible for a hot minute and The Suburbs is maybe actually quite good, although these half-arsed opinions may need revising in due course

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
March 29th 2023


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Wtf Suburbs and Neon Bible are excellent, and Reflektor is mostly great too.

SandwichBubble
March 29th 2023


13796 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Band is in their "were they ever really good?" era. This too shall pass. ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ

GhandhiLion
March 29th 2023


17643 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Hardly the first time a band went to shit



I like crown of love :3

Odal
Staff Reviewer
March 29th 2023


2067 Comments


Asking if Arcade Fire were ever really good is such a ridiculous proposition lol

Funeral and Neon Bible are both unquestionable triumphs, with The Suburbs closely behind them. Reflektor is a step down, but still has some absolutely brilliant moments.

Everything Now is an absolute stinker, but even that has a few absolute gems. WE sucks, but that can't change the past. Band should probably call it quits, but let's not act like they weren't justly one of the pillars of the indiesphere for a hot minute.

Larkinhill
March 29th 2023


7774 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5



Neighborhood 4 and Crown of Love are okay but everything else is amazing.





Haha those just happen to be my two least fav songs here too (alone with Une).

Larkinhill
March 29th 2023


7774 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Win sounds so much like Isaac Brock on some tracks.

Snake.
March 29th 2023


25262 Comments


oh nice another band larkinhill just so happened to conveniently check out after the frontman so absolutely coincidentally got labeled as an abuser

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
March 29th 2023


27464 Comments


spill

ovmunster
March 30th 2023


47 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Abuser is too strong a word for Butler, not all instances of making women sexually uncomfortable is violent abuse.



However, when you make an album as historically important as Funeral - probably the first or 2nd most important indie rock album of the 21st century, in objective measures - being a good person or not is extremely irrelevant.



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