Lit by the glare of The Arcade Fire…
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These new UK tour dates have also just been announced today:
4th May Manchester MDH
5th May Glasgow Debating Chamber
6th May Birmingham Academy 2
8th May Bristol Academy
9th May London Astoria
As if DB’s endorsement isn’t enough for most of us, here are a few quotes from the UK press followed by a five star review from yesterday’s Sunday Times newspaper.
”One of the year’s best already, by a mile’ The Guardian
”There won’t be a better debut album this year’ Time Out
”Totally. F***ing. Awesome.’ NME
”…understated yet majestic debut…’ Rocksound
”Wonderful’ Evening Standard
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Pop CD of the Week: The Arcade Fire: Funeral
DAN CAIRNS
THE ARCADE FIRE
Funeral
Rough Trade TRADCD219
Three minutes into Une Annee sans lumiere, as the drums, guitar and tambourine kick in, this Canadian band throw back their heads and, for the sheer joy of it, shout: ?Hey!? It?s a moment of the purest rapture that can only be responded to physically. I?d call it one of my favourite records of the past 10 years, except that I?m going to play it so much it is bound to grow stale.
The album is loosely themed around the concept of neighbourhoods, and its presiding spirits (of death coinciding with new life) and title arose from the loss of relatives experienced during the recording process and from the marriage of the band?s founders, Win Butler and Regine Chassagne. Early Roxy, Talking Heads, Berlin Bowie, folk, violins, whistling kettles, a steel band, Butler?s tremulous not-quite-a-voice: all join, on tracks such as Laika and Une Annee, to create an album of heartbreak, redemption and words-fail-you beauty.
Buy this. Right now. Five stars
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Here are those March dates again for those of you that missed them when we posted them back at the beginning of the month:
The Arcade Fire March 2005 European Tour
8th London, UK, Kings College
10th Paris, France, Le Nouveaux Casino
11th Amsterdam, Netherlands, Melkweg
13th Berlin, Germany, Magnet
14th Oslo, Norway, Garage
15th Stockholm, Sweden, Debaser
17th London, UK, ULU
Roll on the 8th!