'Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)' is awesome; awe inspiring in its ability to be driving yet somehow soothing, intimate yet grandiose, catchy yet utterly unique. It's that thudding kick drum, the deranged scream melding with the lead-guitar bassline, the fact that in four minutes, it stops and starts like a beautiful old motorcar and sounds totally now. But timeless. Naturally.
Singer Win offers strangely affecting gothic lyrics "Ice has covered up my parents / hands don't have any dreams don't have any plans / Growin' up in some strange storm / nobody's cold, nobody's warm," and, as we wrap ourselves up warm by the fire, with the warm glow of the Arcade Fire in front of us, be safe in the knowledge that they're a proper band. An important band.
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Too bloody right. I marginally prefer Laika to this, but it's streets ahead of anything else that'll be released this week. Or most weeks for that matter
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Laika are indeed wonderful. better than this lot anyway - i might be more forgiving if everyone hadn't made them out to be better than sex beforehand i spose.
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awesome single, by the way. and album.
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I have yet to see them live :-( I hope they do another UK tour. Please come to Nottingham,guys.
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that is all.
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bought the last single was most impressed with the A side and B. so before i get a torrent of abuse, i was only asking.
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It's healthy to like a bit of everything I think. I do find myself constantly standing up for the 'mainstream' on here, so to speak. But one man's 'weird' is another man's 'normal', isn't it?
I mean, if anything, they remind me of Talking Heads. And I thought this before I discovered that they're covering them (with David Byrne guesting) on the B side.
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Not me.
Arcade Fire kinda wash over me... though I do sometimes find myself pounding my thighs with drumsticks in time to a few tracks. The ones what have BIG drums on 'em.
Mostly, though... bovvvered.
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Must say I'm impressed, but who wouldn't be?
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what sort of bsides does it have ?
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However, it was probably the best gig I've seen, so feel free to cry anyway.
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I can see why some people like them, but I can't see why there's such an overwhelming response to their music, as if their music just flooded the world and are killing off all bands, even the good ones, that just aren't....quite.....as....good.
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