The Suburbs (album)
Occupation
- Will Butler
- Win Butler
- Régine Chassagne
- Jeremy Gara
- Tim Kingsbury
- Sarah Neufeld
- Richard Reed Parry
The Suburbs is the third album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was released in August 2010 Merge Records in America and Mercury Records in Europe.
Title list
- 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 all are similar in structure; in the foreground below is a car each to see from behind behind a scene from a suburb (English: Suburb ). The car is a Mercedes -Benz W 115, also called / - 8-. In the upper right corner sports a relatively small lettering of the band; the album title is, however, not be seen on the front of the cover.
There is also a special m4a version of the album, which distributes the band on their website and can also be obtained with the LP version of the album. In this " Synchronised Artwork" that version of each song contains its own cover, on the synchronously the lyrics as well as a context for matching link is displayed.
Reviews
After its predecessors albums Funeral and Neon Bible were mostly praised by critics, The Suburbs connects seamlessly with it. So writes about laut.de:
"Even if Arcade Fire sounded never been so reduced and tidy, they generate to" The Suburbs " an incredibly dense, albeit elusive atmosphere. Who wants to capture the sparking many facets of this enchanted plate at the first overtures, is doomed to failure simply. [ ... ] This unique symbiosis of paralyzing sadness and intoxicating euphoria your breath away also the third album the language! "
The international reviews are very positive. The NME compares the album Automatic for the People by REM respect to the combination of mass appeal and artistic ambition and forgives 9 out of 10.
In Allmusic and the U.S. edition of Rolling Stone, the album gets four out of five, was also chosen by the magazine to the fourth best album of 2010; at Pitchfork Media 8.6 out of 10
Awards
The album won at the Grammy Awards 2011 in the category Album of the Year. It was also nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
In addition, the album shows up in many years leaderboards for 2010; among others, Pitchfork ranked 11th or the Rolling Stone magazine ranked fourth in a review of Plattentests.de The Suburbs is not even seen by both readers and the editors at # 1 on the albums of 2010.