Arcade Fire: Change of Habit summer 
Arcade Fire and "The Suburbs", their third album, is a topic of conversation must for fans and detractors of the group. Like it or not, the second half they belongs in its own right.
"appeared before" Funeral ", I remember our first gig as main course was at Sala Rosa in Montreal. It is a room for about 200 people, but it made me feel accomplished. Power play there was a dream and the first time we did had a line of people around the block, tickets to the show were sold out by word of mouth of our concerts and EP (self-titled 2003). I feel that everything that has happened since then has been an extension of the shock of that night. Different versions of the same feeling, "says Win Butler.
The statements of the leader of Arcade Fire, in an interview with Rolling Stone, it is shown that the frontman has already assumed the new reality of their group, set up by the status of rock stars residing in theaters. The Suburbs , the third album of septet, exudes greatness where he appreciates and is one of the highlights of the 2010 indie. The album debuted at number one in the U.S., moving to "Nightmare" by Avenged Sevenfold, with over 150 thousand copies sold in its first week. An improvement over the premiere of "Neon Bible", which took second place to send 92 000 copies in the same period of time, in 2007.
With the scene dominated by mainstream pop star lab, supported by giants like Disney, with media support that implies, "the last plate of Montreal is the best-selling independent album so far year. Despite receiving an extensive menu of offerings, from multinationals, chose to continue operating from Merge, independent label founded by the eminent Superchunk and home to a rich catalog as (The Magnetic Fields, Teenage Fanclub, Spoon, American Music Club , etc.). The greatest achievements in revenue in the history of the parent have come thanks to Canadians and their explosive success.
"We were an unknown band and feel that meet Merge was a stroke of luck, I love that they have released great albums, such as Neutral Milk Hotel. They were one of the best bands of the nineties and certainly not try to be famous or anything, but I think his music stands next to The Beatles and other celebrities for style, although not intended to be nothing more than what they are . What we're doing now is just an extension of what we started in Montreal, so try to stay true to that, writing songs on our own terms. What happens after an accident. You have little control over that aspect of things, "said Win Butler earlier this year.
Arcade Fire is a guarantee of credibility. In his stubborn stay on the label that first welcomed them, added concern for contingencies outside the platform and infrastructure from where they work, and that show with a group of vast capacity to reflect on themselves. As having a clear reason for each of their movements. It is not free in his first interview, said he started playing Pop Montreal Baroque because they were bored, after seeing so much apathy "shoegazer" bands in their city. His first mission was to become a response to what was happening and so have been, shouting about the death, endings and decay.
Without making an explicit social criticism in his lyrics, the septet was transformed into ad-hoc music composition for the years post 11-S and apocalyptic atmosphere that since then, reigns in much of the world. In addition, combine what they preach in their albums with a series of statements by the press, which strengthens the intellectual trait that characterizes them. When Wyclef Jean wanted to be president of Haiti, a country that Arcade Fire has collected money, Win Butler said, the Canadian broadcaster Sirius XMU-that former Fugees was unfit for the job and if he really cared to help, leave the set for a true resident of the island. As far as compared with the hypothetical case that Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. president.
Whatever your desire, be it marketing or genuine concern (in the previous case, Régine Chassagne, founder of the group, is of Haitian descent), the views of the group on contingency fail to capture the attention of a myriad of publications and invite reflection his followers. Is known indie public animosity against, especially U2 and Bono Vox, but Win Butler did not care to praise in the New Musical Express Irish, after deciding to support George W. Bush in his campaign against AIDS, while the Republican was still in the White House. And just as defiant joked, calling for "fascist" British democracy, in an episode of The Culture Show on BBC.
The exhibition has opened opportunities to make those comments but they are also reported their duels against Pavement table tennis, as in the October issue of Spin magazine. Fortunately, so far, the process of Arcade Fire farandulización is truncated to open their records. "The Suburbs", as its predecessors, is an LP plaintiff requires time, patience and a special predisposition to be enjoyed fully. Under old parameters, with almost 64 minutes, would be a double plate and the main theme that has it would fall into the conceptual opus label, which, coupled with the manipulation aspect-baroque set a challenge to the canons of contemporary mainstream .
"We want the aesthetic shock comes from the art we produce. We try to make people experience what we do through what interests us. And what interests us is the music and shows, prefer to be using that than anything in the periphery, although I think the outside is very interesting and useful. But also you can spoil the initial approach. If you have an author is a jerk and then you read his book, you will do differently. You might think 'Oh, it's a very good book ... to be a jerk,' "said Will (the youngest of the brothers Butler) Digital Pages site.
" If a movie that you're motivated and trailer tells you every detail about her and making off and the financing and the fight between the main actors ... that's the context that makes it difficult to enjoy a piece art. Are the things you see with low expectations which usually fly your head. It's fun to walk excited about something. It's not like everyone needs to feel that way about our album, but is a little special time for those who do are "raised.
The hype around "The Suburbs" lacked the element of surprise, passed earlier in "Neon Bible", but the results have been the best launch in the history of the group. The debut "Funeral" left them so well, that the challenge of a second album did not find it so difficult to survive as the myth suggests. Just enough to delve into the same ideas, tinged with death and urgency, more rigorous to reinforce what they proclaimed in his debut. But take the third trick would not work, and avoid the situation that put its own success was the real test for Arcade Fire. An examination of that came gracefully.
"People tend to look at the records related, but are in fact projects themselves. Each of them feels like starting a new group, "confessed Win Butler told The Gazette of Montreal. Although it is impossible to separate the work of the septet absorb their latest largaduración is a single piece and helps to better understand and value it in its own dimension, even to establish a proper perspective on the previous albums. Because if it is true that differences and news shows, "The Suburbs" continues the exploration of Win Butler and the huge inventory of references that manages and provides continuity in the career of Canadians.
Any attempt to describe the sound of Arcade Fire, at this point, is a huge waste of time. The comparison with Depeche Mode, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Ramones. Some indie defend his reputation, while others lie in the mainstream, because of the fame they have achieved. Win Butler is rumored to have messianic complex, like Bono and Chris Martin; its mandate in the group is absolute and that the coral facade is a farce because it is all written by him. Critics paragons venture between the letters of their three albums, the middle-class fiction of such writers Douglas Coupland and dystopias of JG Ballard. A sea of \u200b\u200buncertainty with one certainty: we are witnessing the construction, step by step, a new legend.
The enormous line outside the Municipal Theatre of Valparaiso said it out loud: Erlend Øye primermundista may be very red hair, but plays at home in Chile. In its previous submissions, provided the board returned, the Norwegian had forged a close relationship with our country, fueled by a bond of mutual admiration with Javiera Mena. 
