The Suburbs

"Arcade Fire" is some bullshit. Arcades are cool. Why would I want to picture one on fire? Failure right out of the gate. This is vapid crap to shop around Target to.

Boy have I learned to hate this band from this list. Funeral and Neon Bible were atrocious. This one, while surprisingly a little better at times, continues on that path. The bulk of the album just drags, and the length doesn't help this. Pretty typical for how I feel about most indie from this era.

3.2 2x

Meh - same sort of emo music, heard it before

this album gave me very much coming-of-age indie film vibes. probably the thing i liked most about it was that it never felt like it was stuck in one genre. as the album slowly morphed from the first half to the second, i started hearing lots of elements similar to bon iver's stuff, and towards the end it sounded like the band cults with was pretty awesome. favorite songs: wasted hours, sprawl II (mountains beyond mountains)

The auditory equivalent of https://youtube.com/kjwlrvcKcfI?t=115

Nice

Album incrível, cheio de memórias de um passado inexistente ou que nao vemos mais. Sentimentos puros e expectativa de uma junventude sonhadora

16 songs Added to liked: -The Suburbs (already there) -Suburban War

No lo terminé de escuchar. No me atrapó y me aburrió la verdad.

While I haven’t loved their most recent stuff, I still consider Arcade Fire to be one of my favorite bands of all time. This one isn’t my number one, but it’s full of nostalgia for me. 4/4.5

Not as good as Funeral, but I remember when this came out feeling that it was a bit of a missed opportunity.

Another band that I had heard of without actually hearing. Now that I have heard them, I have to say I'm pretty impressed, it's very much indie music scene through the lens of maximalism with heavily orchestrated music that definitely achieves a somewhat impressive anthemic quality, especially on the tracks "Modern Man" and "City With No Children" If it wasn't for the credible accusations against Win Butler, I'd seek out their music outside of this project, but given those, I'd rather not.

First song is great but the rest is a not so for me!

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I liked this a lot. Need to listen to it some more. I added the title track to my playlist though all the songs were good.

I think this was pretty mid.

forgetable

Excelente, muito influente pra música indie.

The album started quite good but got pretty boring

An excellent album that I had honestly forgotten existed. Modern Man is one of my favourite Arcade Fire tracks but there any many more on here.

I enjoyed this, even added a few songs. I'd do 3.5 if we could do half ratings

I really like some of the songs on this album but it is repetitive and there are some meh songs here too

If M83 albums are the nostalgic soundtracks for movies that never existed, the Suburbs is that same nostalgia and frustration for kids who grew up in the cultural dead zones of the US suburbs. This one hits hard, though perhaps not as potent as it was fifteen years ago. This is the band at their creative peak, perfecting the sound they championed on Funeral, while stripping it back a bit from the more anthemic Neon Bible. The band may have lost their relevance in recent years, but The Suburbs remains a testament to the power they once had.

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7/10 - No weak points. Overall a strong album Fav Tracks: Ready to Start, Modern Man, Rococococococo Heard before? ---–- ✅ Saved a Song? ----- ✅ Saved Album? --–-- ✅ Will Listen Again? -- ✅ Album Cover -------Canada has palm trees?

Like Achtung Baby and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, this is the album you love even if you don't love the band.

legalzinho

A classic, looking forward to a relisten It's a shame they really lost their way but for about 3 and a half albums Arcade Fire were top of the game. Only reason this isn't a five is there's too much filler for my liking

Top notch

A lot better than the other album. Voices are actually pretty great and the music is soothing and creative. Enjoyed this one!

I've never been able to get really excited by these guys, but I also find them consistently compelling.

The Suburbs is clearly The Arcade Fire's best, most fully realized album. Their whole sound is built upon nostalgia and catharsis. Those big anthems, the moments of release. There are few things that can elicit more pure joy for me than an Arcade Fire climax, and building them on the backs of "remember when we were kids and life was easier, but now we're grown, and everything is complex" pricks my easily manipulated heart with the force of an avalanche. The Suburbs is chock full of those moments, ostensibly a concept album or a rock opera waiting to happen. By the time it gets to their crowning achievement, "Sprawl 11 (Mountains Beyond Mountains)," I'm putty in its hands. And Win Butler had to go do a bunch of stuff that was icky enough to rob all the purity out of that joy and greatly diminish its ability to land. I can still get there with Funeral because it is embedded in a time and place in my life that I cherish, so my own experiences can almost supersede my reservations. And there are moments on Reflektor that are so serene and cosmic that I temporarily forget all the bad stuff. But The Suburbs never took hold that way, and it is merely perfecting the Arcade Fire formula, so its moments aren't transcendent, and I honestly have no access to the "life is worth living so throw your arms wide open and breathe it in" catharsis that fuels every wonderful moment. Which, honestly, is just a huge bummer all around. A four-nearly-five star album that I just have no capacity to enjoy on its face any longer.

Nice to listen to. Just didn't hear much 4 or 5 star material in there. Liked some of the atmospheric stuff in the second half.

This album reminded me of the Rufus Wainwright album I was generated not too long ago. I kinda liked that one, and the same is true of this one. The music feels fantastical and definitely arty. I wasn't thrilled by it, however. It all felt like one long song.

I'm not sure why I didn't like this more. It's got that moody MGMT vibe and great guitar, good lyrics, I just didn't really feel anything when I listened to it. Maybe it'll get better with repeated listening.

My opinion on Arcade Fire has evolved a bit lately. I've decided that they're like the Indie Rock version of Coldplay; they are both the cliches of their genre taken to completion. So, they're both very "cliche", but they are the best "pure" bands in their style. I think that this album does have some more unique-ness to it than the other Arcade Fire albums that have come up in my listening so far, but it still very much lives in its indie rock world. Favorite Song(s): Ready to Start, Rococo

Completamente mi vibra desde la secundaria, me encantó conocer a más artistas indies que comparten esta musicalidad, mis favorita fueron Ready To Start, The Suburbs, Deep Blue y Sprawl (1 y 2)

May 30th, 2026 Standouts: modern man, rococo, water hours, we used to wait, sprawl II

I haven't listened to this album in a very long time, and I seemed to forget how much I liked it. As soon as the record began I was reacting to each song almost as though I'd never heard them before, but also exactly as I'd remembered them. It was weird to have that feeling of knowing an album and forgetting how well I knew it. My only gripe with the album was its length. There are a few songs in the middle that could be cut and I think it would lead to an overall better listening experience. But even that being said, I don't actually dislike any of the songs. There are some that are just not as necessary. Standouts were The Suburbs, Ready to Start, Modern Man, and Sprawl II.

Not sure that 3 Arcade Fire albums are necessary additions to the list.

The first time we got Arcade Fire I gave it a three because it was fine. There was nothing special about it but there wasn’t anything terrible about it either. After this second album with more mediocre music by them, I’m dropping it to a 2.

I was working out while listening to this album. Truth be told, I completely forgot I was evaluating the songs. The music just slipped into the background. Based on that I have to say nothing shocked me positively or negatively so this is simply middle of the road. Not a fan but not a critic.

Every time I listen to Arcade Fire, I wish I was listening to The War on Drugs. Then, I put on The War on Drugs and the music gets much better. Arcade Fire is the bad boy from an after school special, a caricature of actual dissent or rebellion. It is safe, hipster bullshit. No me gusta.

Eh...bland and uninteresting, but not terrible. I was bored listening and read through some of the reviews, one really struck me. He wrote of the nostalgia he had for the album, this was released the year he graduated college, how it struck a chord with him and was the soundtrack of that period of his life. All great stuff, enjoyed the review, but then he then went on to say arcade fire is to millennials what Nirvana is to Gen X. That gave me pause and makes me very sad for millenials.

Pretty meh for an Arcade Fire album.

This was a great album. I enjoyed it from front to back

Pretty much exactly what I expected from French canadians

10’s Indie Rock ⭐️The Suburbs

#955. Arcade Fire is too cool of a name for a band that is so lame. This is third one now I've listened too, and the third one I have been completely underwhelmed with. 2/5: boring

this album was very good! i love indie rock, and this is the album for it. my favorite song was modern man!

Me da vibes de Djo, no es mi estilo de música pero esta guay.

2010's alt staple album. It's a good listen

Послушал дважды. Второй раз чтобы расслышать. Хорошая сложная музыка. Надо поизучать творчество этих товарищей

Is a good album? Yeah it is. But it doesn't do much for me.

Hipsterit

Energetic and melancholic at the same time - took me on a journey to the past of the teen years.

You can't really go wrong with it.

No puedo ser objetivo. Mi álbum favorito (probablemente) con una de mis canciones favoritas de la vida de una de mis bandas favoritas. Perfección. No puedo decir más.

Enjoyed, I just don’t think albums need to be this long

I really don't know! Arcade fire are so interesting to me. It rarely hits where I can listen to the record through and feel like it's lovable from start to finish. I think there's something about the delivery that (unfairly) tells me this is generic indie and it's worth switching off. I always finding me really enjoying parts on the second listen through though and it definitely feels like there's some good art there. I feel like if I listened to it 10 times I'd learn to really love it, but will I do that? This feels more electronic than I remember them being before and I think it fits (perhaps takes them further away from super twee indie)

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such an amazing album, one you can listen to for years and years.

plucked a few new tracks from it. overall, i liked it

Huge step up from first album imo, I like how it has a lot of Springsteen in the sound and it ends at just the right time for me so justifies the length (although on first listen Sprawl feels a little unnecessary even if good)

Fine. Didn't get it

I really liked this album. Lots of great songs. I had listened to another album of theirs and this one was great as well

The only thing wrong with this album is that it didn't originally include the excellent (bonus) track "Speaking in Tongues" with David Byrne Edit: I just listened to it again and it is very annoying in parts. "Rococo" is awful. Endless references to "war" without actually clarifying what it is.

Really enjoyed this. First half was a lot better than the second, but still very solid. Best song was the opening track

balade dans la foret type shit

Excellent. Vocals have a little Rhett Miller to it which sort of makes it a more alt rock version of the Old 97s. Really enjoyed this.

Expected more?

I love this album. One of their top 3, that are hard to put in order. Such a mood they carry while still being lively. Their upset grammy win was such a big moment to watch. "who even is Arcade Fire?!"

Rating:★★★

Had a couple of these late noughties indie albums now and they tend to provoke the same reaction from me and reading reviews from others. These albums work if you first heard them when you were a teenager, parked in a dimly lit place in your first car. In the passenger seat is a girl, perhaps your childhood sweetheart. Sweat beads on your brow, a product of your nerves and the late summer heat, streams of milky perspiration from the exorbitant amount of wax in your hair. The windows, rolled all the way up are opaque with steam. Conversation has subsided, you panic, it's awkward, the steam from the windows suffocates you. The radio is a lifeline. You hit play. It's The Suburbs by Arcade Fire. Fifteen years later you press play once more. You're not in that stuffy car anymore. You're at home with two children tearing around. Perhaps that childhood sweetheart is now your wife, or perhaps she's just a memory. Sweat doesn't drip from your nervous brow, and you no longer coat your hair with a slick of wax. Maybe there isn't even any hair left. But for 75 minutes you're back to being 16, blissfully carefree. However, I am not this person. So, I find this album, like many of this style, to be just fine. It's all quite samey, and it's very long. It's harmless, and even I experience a degree of nostalgia from it. But stripping back any imaginary emotions and focusing purely on the music, it's okay. I'd listen again, but not in a hurry.

Arcade Fire are one of those fairly overlooked bands that make really solid music and this album is no exception. Really easy to listen to without being boring or basic. 8/10

I like their sound. A lot of it has a nostalgic feel to it without me having actually heard this album before

lowkey quite good, very chill, 3.5

Decent suburbia was favourite

Loved a lot of the songs. Not usually my kind of stuff but would listen again.

Okay, I cannot put my finger on it but starting this album I really am liking the sound. I have not listened to Arcade Fire before, but I like the energy and overall tone. The first track moves into kind of a haunting tone while maintaining good pace, the thumping of the drum in the background, the vocals similar to like an "Arctic Monkeys" type. Gotta love the smooth transition to track 2. Yep this album is definitely a vibe. About halfway through the album, I am still very actively listening, I enjoy the overall tone and style, the vocals have intent behind them. I am a fan of Arcade Fire now, will definitely revisit the album in the future.

On a first listen, not really for me. Who knows.

B+

I would give this 3.5 stars. Again, another artist I knew of, but had not listened to an album by them.

Another record that I absolutely love. I have listened to this so many times.

Repeat listen

The way that the first three Arcade Fire albums instantly transport me back to my early twenties. I love them all, but of those first three The Suburbs probably has slightly less of a hold on me than Funeral or Neon Bible. 4.5 stars

This was what everyone was hyped about 20 years ago?

Awesome album throughout.

As a suburban kid who heard this album at 21, it gets me

Despite this album’s considerable virtues you can already see the beginnings of what ended up destroying this band, mainly a focus on Big Statements over melody, a growing sameness, and a pivot to synths over traditional rock instrumentation. Granted, synths eventually start looking good to every washed-up rock group, but only a lucky few (one out of ten, maybe?) are able to come out the other side of that unscathed. Arcade Fire, somewhat infamously, did not. Still, there are numerous excellent songs here: “The Suburbs,” “Ready to Start,” “City With No Children,” “Modern Man,” “We Used to Wait”…it all is a bit too long, though. Best track: “Ready to Start”

A really good album that could have benefited from a shorter runtime. Many times the music invokes a somber hope while moving though life.

This won album of the year at the grammy's in 2011, during a period when the mainstream seemed to be trying to embrace indie more and indie was largely and exercise in trying to find the "next radiohead" The songs are fine and the lyrics seem to connect with a certain kind of person. I am not one of those people and something about Arcade Fire has never connected with me. There are some nice hooks here, but in general is biases too much towards a wall of sound for my taste. I don't see my self revisiting this. Did i have to visit it in the first place? I'm not inclined to think so.

I've loved this album for a very long time, and whilst the reasons I've loved it have changed over the years, as have my opinions of Arcade Fire as a whole, The Suburbs still holds a very special place in my heart

Good, mellow listen- hear on headphones while painting the living room

Significantly better than "Neon Bible" which was my first encounter with Arcade Fire. I still hate that they're involved with SA charges. Some of the songs tend to drone on and on and so do some of the lyrics. I'm still not a fan of Arcade Fire but this album is leagues better than "Neon Bible". Overall I'll give it a 5/10

A bit all over the place, some songs were decent, but others felt like I'd taken too big of a bite and my mouth was too full. I'd rate it a 6.5/10 but there's no way to rate it even half stars.

Great album but can only listen to it for a while before I need to move on.

Not very dynamic.

Not super familiar with this and as such, so not a huge amocunt of nostalgia to rely on for vibing through it, but it did a good job on its own! The first track is an entry drug, that's for sure, with is rolling piano, lazy drums and sweeping vocals. You're then taken on a wild journey through powerhouse orchestral tracks such as 'Empty Room' and back. By the time 'Wasted Hours' arrives, you're glad to resolve on the now familiar, sundrenched, relaxed, porch-sitting groove. # Respect for when an album feels like a complete work, rather than a collection of individual songs. 3 stars.

More to love here than I remembered, for sure, but boy does this thing ... ahem ... sprawl. Those strings on Empty Room, yes please; the rhythmic tension at the opening of We Used to Wait, absolutely; all of Sprawl II, of course. But the endless midtempo yawnfests on the My First Anticapitalist theme - not so much. A three for the moments Win shuts up about the kids and lets everyone else take over.

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not really my music genre but there are some catchy lyrics und good instrumentals

Oh so nostalgic

Man I just don’t think this band is for me. I tried!

Not for me.

Just about the most 3 you'll ever get

Big beats and high emotion

Ready to start vond ik het leukst, de rest duurde me net iets te lang en leken ze teveel op elkaar

Creo que me gustó más Neon Bible, pero la verdad es que este álbum tiene unos temazos. Realmente Arcade Fire es uno de los grandes descubrimientos personales de esta lista.

I dunno, fine? Not bad?

Being from Quebec, I remember hearing a LOT of noise about Arcade Fire. And it's just okay? I don't hate it, and it's in fact very much in line with a lot of stuff I like to listen to. But I guess I was expecting more? 4/5 because it's still pretty good.

Liked it, actually

As good as little boxes in subdivisions

This album is a fine album but it is a step down from Neon Bible. That should have been on the list over this fella.

Ready to start

I love the suburbs, but the rest of the album doesn't hit quite as hard. Still an enjoyable listen.

- More SA and predatory behaviour for this list. I used to love Arcade Fire, but yet another on the boycott list for me! - This album was never my favourite, though - it's good, and there are a lot of great songs on it, but I don't like it as much as the previous ones. After this album, they did that pretentiously long one, and this one felt like it was heading there (it's definitely too long). I just read that the special anniversary version contains "an 80-page booklet"... <rolls eyes>. - To me, this album feels like it's trying to recreate the magic of the debut album, but it doesn't quite reach those heights. - It starts out really promising -- the first two songs are really good. I just find that there's a lot of filler (e.g., Modern Man, Rococo, Empty Room, though I like the fluttering strings and how it sweeps... etc). There are a lot of songs I really like, though - City With No Children, Half Light II, Suburban War, Wasted Hours, We Used to Wait. The other songs are fine, but I just never seek them out or am excited to hear them on the album. - Also, I've never really been that into the woman singer's (really thin) voice, and I think she's featured more than I like on this album, but I enjoy it when she's harmonizing (e.g., Half Light II). - 3.5 rounded down.

As an indie fan, I enjoyed this album. I had never listened to it before, although I am very sure I had listened to The Suburbs and Modern Man by chance at some point. Arcade Fire does what they do best on this album, they create songs that evoke emotion by having powerful builds. Their songs are really lowkey, effortless almost, which gives it a nostalgic flaire I think. The downsides to this album is that it was awfully long. It felt repetitive and meandering at times. Favorite Tracks: Suburbs Modern man Empty Room Wasted Hours Deep Blue

1001 Albums Generator 288 (5/11/2026) Pretty good mix of chamber pop and indie rock, but not nearly as tight as Funeral. It starts strong with Arcade Fire's biggest hit, followed by two very solid tracks, but there's a lot of fluff in the middle of the tracklist. 3.5/5, rounded down to 3. Favs: The Suburbs Modern Man Sprawl II Least Fav: Rococo

Even though I wish more songs sounded like 'Month of May' and 'Ready to Start', this is a pretty cool concept album with some nostalgic and emotional moments throughout.

These guys don’t do it for me.

Se nostalgia tivesse um som, seria mais ou menos assim. Funeral também possui uma sonoridade assim, agridoce, repleta de memórias inexistentes, falei sobre isso naquela review. E eu digo isso sendo que não conhecia essa banda na minha infância, não é algo pessoal, estou analisando do lado de fora. Sobre Suburbs, prefiro o estilo mais compacto e direto ao ponto da estréia do grupo, Funeral. Vejo o valor dessa odisseia que eles criaram aqui, e certamente há muitos momentos lindos neste disco, verdadeiramente emocionantes e exilirantes. Mas… odeio quando há um mas. A verdade é que o disco se perde um pouco no meio da sua própria grandeza, e em alguns momentos eu senti uma falta de direção. Não me prendeu da mesma forma. Uma pena, mas têm seus belos momentos e no geral eu gostei. 3.5

Great album, it starts and ends with the same strong theme, but I enjoyed many of the middle songs. It always leaves me wanting to listen to it again.

alr but too pop

Unremarkable. 2.5 stars

Good, but no where near as good as Funeral

Number: 122 Date: 05/05/2026 Artist: Arcade Fire Album: The Suburbs Year: 2010 Genre: Indie Rock Familiarity: Well-versed (4) Rating: 3 Before: ======= I like Arcade Fire pretty well. They're not one of my favorites but they would be a contender for my favorite top 200 musical artists. I also believe they deserve consideration for a spot on a list of top 1000 albums, but not for this one. I've never listened to the whole thing all the way through, but have skimmed it. Maybe I'll change my mind but as of now Neon Bible is hands down my favorite from them. During: ======= 3 The Suburbs 3 Ready To Start 3 Modern Man 3 Rococo 3 Empty Room 4 City With No Children 4 Half Light I 4 Half Light II (No Celebration) 3 Month Of May 3 Wasted Hours 4 Deep Blue 3 We Used To Wait 3 Sprawl I (Flatland) 5 Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) 4 Suburban War 3 The Suburbs (Continued) ----------------------------------------------------- 3.50 WEIGHTED AVERAGE (accounts for song lengths) After : ======= 3 my personal rating 2 suitability for this list 3 impact ----------------------------------------------- 2.7 composite rating After : ======= Yeah, it's OK, but I personally think one album from them on this list is plenty and it should be Neon Bible because that is their best, imo.

So I always thought that I don't like Arcade Fire. Turns out I was wrong, this album is entirely my jam.

Charming.

This album started out well, but it got boring fast. I guess I only only really liked the first song on this album. It's just boring and hard to focus on and there are no songs that really bring you back to listening.

Good album! Love them.

Good, not great. A couple of outstanding tracks but quite a bit of clever but unfocused noodling that isn't that musically expansive. I'm sure they're a great soundtrack to a balmy late summer afternoon festival picnic when you're 6 ciders in and slightly sunburned

Pretentious twaddle

❤️

I know this was highly acclaimed at the time and even if I like this band somewhat it didn't move me that much. Its an interesting concept album about suburban decline and the inevitable of the future but I didn't enjoy many of the tracks in the middle. Nonetheless, the title track is always a great listen.

Cool feelings music, sounds like 80s new wave plus EDM. A bit repetitive though.

Honestly just entirely unremarkable; all entirely listenable and perfectly pleasant, but it's also just extremely generic indie poprock. Listened while working and it manage to grab my attention (for either good or bad) even a single time. The most mid, mid that ever did mid.

Highlights: Pretty much all really cool usage of feedback Rococo Half Light 2 These guys kinda get it... some songs have incredible feedback usage. Unfortunately the songs that don't incorporate this magical noise are bland and boring Very High 3

Like the vibes

I really liked it!

nostalgia

I was expecting to dislike this album, given my current musical preferences. But I found myself pleasantly surprised. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect.. the whiny male vocals can be a tad grating at times. But there are moments of brilliance that elevate this album to something worth revisiting. So here I am, reminiscing about days gone by, enjoying Arcade Fire's unique brand of indie rock once more. Spins: 2 Playlist Additions - The Suburbs - Ready To Start - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

ehhh

Lowkey sprawling.

Kinda reminded me of the Flaming Lips.

05/01 Was okay

There’s a 4-star, ten track album within these 16 tracks for sure. A handfuls of songs here measure up nicely to the band’s best work. But overall it feels bloated and weighed down by forced narratives. The end of an era for the band for sure.

I understand some folks like arcade fire, I like a song here and there but I am not a fan of listening to too many of them in a row

I didn't like it back in the day, and I like it even less now with everything surrounding Win Butler.

*I like Arcade Fire's more uptemp0 stuff better *Very shoegazey and that's not my thing

Would've been nice if I heard this when I was 16, it's nice enough indie I guess

Not too bad.

have always liked this one

некоторые треки рисовали в голове разные кинематографичные сцены, эмоциональные сюжеты. но в остальном скучновато. на фон кайф.

мне оч понравился альбом, под конспекты или занятия самое то

2026.04.29

Nope not doing it

"They heard me singing and they told me to stop / quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock" — band that bought a church and outfitted it with vintage gear to use as a studio

ugh.... these guys again. it's astronomically unlikely that we roll all 3 arcade fire albums in our first 50, but here we are. at least this is the last of em...... of the three, this album has the strongest instrumentation by far. i think my favourite track is "empty room", which has a shoegazey sound that fits perfectly on yet another hot & sunny day (letting the tides of reverb wash over me helps me avoid thinking about why we're consistently hitting temperatures over 20°c during april in fucking britain of all places), but i enjoyed the industrial edge of "rococo" and the experimentation with a 9/8 time signature on "modern man". as usual arcade fire has a tendency to slip into an undeservedly dramatic vibe, as they do on "half light i" for example, but i noticed it less this time. the band did good here. unfortunately though, as with neon bible, i think i'd prefer this much more as an instrumental album. the lyrics are bad again, but this time in a pretentious bullshit way. whining about growing up in the suburbs rings kinda hollow when you're in your 30s and fucking minted, insisting on recording on all vintage equipment and having your tracks mixed by 6 engineers at a time because you don't wanna use automation. "indie rock", huh? gimme a fucking break. "sprawl ii" is perhaps the worst for this with its lyrics consisting mostly of vacuous lamentation over urban sprawl and the woes of being a creative in an unsupportive environment, which again feels tone-deaf when you're a member of a band that bought a fucking church to record in. it's a shame because it's also one of the only songs on the album where régine chassagne gets to perform without win butler singing over the top of her, but if these are the lyrics she's coming up with then maybe i should be thankful..... i'm still giving this one a 3 on the strength of everything that isn't the vocals, but this is largely due to my enjoyment of it on my first listen where i actively refused to process the lyrics. the more i process them and learn about the excess that went into this album's production, the more i sour on it all, and the harder it gets to justify that grade, so don't be surprised if this drops to a 2 in the near future. maybe this band is irredeemable after all.

Not my style

Much like Funeral this album has its highs, but is The Suburbs the better of the inclusions? Albums like them both need time to marinate, and the format of this project force you to revisit them as you make your journey

Pretty good but not good enough to have all their albums on here lol

I get it won the Grammy (a choice that rightfully remains controversial), but it's not their best work. It starts out 5/5, ends 5/5, but kinda drags in the middle chunk. Great first 15 minutes, great last 20 minutes, and the other half an hour just kinda exists.

I found this quite slow and stripped down during a lot of parts, and only one song really caught my ear. It was alright to have in the background, but I did catch myself absentmindedly skipping a song (I went back), which I never do.

Aww, this is an old favourite. The music somehow matches the theme and the whole thing flows together nicely. It feels understated at first but if you listen closely there is a lot going on. Maybe a tad too long but I’ll forgive them that in the circumstances

Svaki njihov album je loše ostario, ali ovaj nekako najviše

Me gusto mucho

Started out good, but the full album is a slog and gets repetitive.

Fue muy rápido otro disco de Arcade fire. Me pasa que no logro enganchar pero suena bien como de fondo

Me gusto más que el otro disco de Arcade fire

Otro disco de arcade fire? Son amigos del dueño? Este al menos parece ser un poco mejor, si me preguntas si me acuerdo una canción te digo que no. Y si me apuras en 3 semanas no me acuerdo el disco No queda guardado

White boys in a garage band Favourite track: Rococo

Really liked this, lots of big, anthemic songs with a slightly dark undertone, will give another listen

Not as good as Funeral but pretty close.

The album is OK. I’ve never been a huge fan of Arcade Fire. They have a few good songs. 2.5 stars

Awesome indie

guay

This hits close to home for me and is an indie classic at this point.

They take their symphonic/orchestral-esque sound from Funeral and seem to have perfected it here. Though I don't think they have any tracks on The Suburbs that are quite as iconic as the best tracks from Funeral. Really enjoy the soundscapes they create here, lots of layers. It's not quite as raw emotionally as Funeral, but it's still very melancholic and introspective (which is 100% my shit, goddamn do I love me some sadboi indie bullshit).

I used to like this more now. It’s just kind of adult music. It’s just like pleasant. The first song is good. Probably a classic.

This was fantastic. I learned about Arcade Fire from Bowie, who was really big on them in the early 00s. I loved the first album and then wasn't crazy about the second album so I had never actually listened to this. Definitely going to listen again and I think on repeated listens it will probably become a 5 for me. They have interesting song structures and arrangements, I love the words and the melodies. Stellar record. 4 1/2 for sure - and only not a 5 because it's brand new to me. I did give Bebel Gilberto a "pristine 5" - so I may revise my vote later.

A perhaps underrated LP in the face of their two previous works, this one has a solid theme that enhances the work without being overbearing. There are some real deep cut gems in addition to fan favourites. This is probably where AF peaked.

how did I never listen to this before? It's really everything Indie Rock should be. fantastic

8/10

One of Arcade Fire’s best. Big, Springsteen-style rock anthems with sweeping emotions and memorable melodies. The lyrics can get a little cheesy, but when you deliver cheesiness on a scale this cinematic and dramatic, it doesn’t matter. I’m sold. I love the opening title track. Lots of good songs here but that’s a great one. It’s got an easygoing shuffle but a melancholy air. “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” is a favorite too. That used to be one I would play again and again just to get my fix of the energy and style of it. Listening to this for the first time in a while, there are few too many tracks in the middle. But this is still a classic in my book, and one I’ve poured a lot of emotion into over the years.

Bummed that I restarted my browser and didn't save my review here so I'm going to quickly try to remember everything. This is a really great album. I was a late listener to this band and I wish I would have gotten into them sooner but I'm happy to be into them at any point in my life. This album particularly is my favorite of theirs. I love how these tracks can teleport me while I'm listening. "Ready to Start" to me feels like driving your car on a rainy road in the middle of fall while leaves drop off the trees around you. "The Suburbs" feels like an introspective conversation you have while staring in a mirror. "Wasted Hours" is sitting in Adirondack chairs around a pool on a perfect summer day. "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" is standing in your girlfriend's college dorm, pregaming before going out to parties, and wondering if you should have another drink and gauging it off of how loose your dancing is starting to get. I've gone back and forth a lot with the lyrics on "The Suburbs" and if there are other deeper meanings there that I just don't catch. To me, it's kind of on the nose, and I don't know if maybe that's the case because the lyrics really do describe a lot of vivid memories of growing up in a suburban setting. I remember learning to drive in those kinds of streets, I remember getting in fights with kids (and them feeling like wars), and returning home bruised and muddied and realizing that I'm not mom's sweet boy anymore. Now, as I recently have become a suburban homeowner, I also can look around at the idyllic setting of my residential street and see the beautiful trees and flowers blooming and seeing that this is a really serene setting. Like the song, I also realize that suburbs aren't all flowers and white picket fences. For example, I know some of my neighbors now, but I don't really "know" them.. you know? Kids screaming down the street is a welcome sound (for me atleast), and it reminds me of being a kid and hollering and having the time of my life. But kids also scream when they are scared or when something isn't right. Suburbs are interesting places. Great album.

good groove to keep playing on a sunny morning; might be great for tidying up - cannot recall a particular song

I guess it was okay. I had to relisten to some of it because I spaced out and boom, 5 just had just passed with me noticing it. I will round up from 2.5 because it was good background music that never offended.

3.5. Good but mostly seemed to be background music for me. Nothing grabbed me.

See previous Arcade Fire review(s). Good if you're in your 20's and trying to meet indie chicks I guess. Bad to be a woman around Wiz Butler.

3,88 1. "Ready to Start" 2. "Suburban War" 3. "Month of May"

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annoys you by the end

RIGHT up my alley. I love a good 2010s(ish) indiepop record.

Love love loved but Neon Bible is still better 4/5

So I wait my turn, I'm a modern man And the people behind me, they can't understand.

The songs on this one sound a bit more subdued and less bombastic compared to their previous record, Neon Bible. It's a welcome change - Bible sounded like a balls-to-the-wall revival-circus experiment and made it kind of exhausting to listen to. The inventive sounds and arrangements are still here, and they still bring an intensity, but the earnestness and conceptivity is mostly dialed back to a more engaging level.

loved the songs that had the female singer in it, got a bit of everything, wouldnt say got a fav song but a good album to just to play in the background, sprawl II is nice

2010s boppin, you know. Not bad, but of the time

When to listen: suburban yearning. I always hated when men waxed poetic about Arcade Fire, but perhaps they were onto something. I liked the musical allusions and I liked the lyricism.

Whiles it’s hard to think of a band that’s fallen harder than Arcade Fire in terms of quality and respect, man those first three albums are something else. Funeral is a masterpiece in its own right, but I think there’s a compelling argument that The Suburbs is the band’s finest work. It’s the last Arcade Fire album in which they don’t succumb to their own importance. Sure, there are hints of self-righteousness here, but the social critiques in the lyrics still feel genuine and, yes, important here. I think some music publication called them the most important band in the world at the time, and perhaps that was the beginning of the end for them, as Reflektor was a big step back in quality and Everything Now was an embarrassment. Sexual misconduct allegations against Win Butler have also derailed the band. That said, when you look back at The Suburbs it’s best to think about how the band was in this time period. I saw them at Bonnaroo the year this came out, and they were incredible live. This record, while threatening to be too long, doesn’t have a bad song. Even the multiple Half Light and Sprawl songs work. The opening title track is a perfect kickoff. Modern Man is beautiful. City With No Children is a lyrical masterwork (Bowie once pointed out the honest brilliance of the line “I used to think I was not like them but I’m beginning to have my doubts, my doubts about it.”). Suburban War is epic. Month of May slaps, I don’t care what anyone says about this. We Used to Wait is another brilliant song. Sprawl II is the albums crown jewel, an absolute sublime musical work of art. It actually occurred to me in revisiting this that one reason this album (and Funeral) are so good is that it’s one of the best examples of having male and female vocalists taking lead on songs. Sprawl II is the best song here on a rather long album with no bad songs. I think it can at least be argued that In The Backseat is the best song on Funeral as well. History won’t favor the band as much as it once looked like it would, but they gave us quite the gift with this one.

Really really good! Highlights are The Suburbs, Deep Blue, Empty Room

3.5. Some nice songs, but a bit too long with some filler

"Oh my dear God, what is that horrible song?" I gave it a fair shot. But it's too boring. Too bland. Too polished. Too repetitive. Too white. It's a statement from a lifestyle that I once envied when I was younger, but I now despise. I do not want to hear about Win Butler's uneventful, uninteresting middle-class Mormon upbringing. I know many people love this album and this band, but I can't get into it. Two weeks into my 1001albums journey, this is easily the worst experience I have had listening to anything on this list.

I like it, my first arcade fire album tbh. Such a morning drive vibe

This entire album hasn't held up as well as I hoped, and it particularly sags in the middle. You can count on Arcade Fire to dial up the pretentiousness with songs like "Rococo" and "Sprawl I," and I don't love the side-eye for The Woodlands that underscores the motif. Nevertheless, I think the anthems -- "Half Light," "Sprawl II," "We Used to Wait" -- still sound great. And I'd rank "Ready to Start" as one of the best first-song concert opening songs for any band, up there in its own way with "Kickstart My Heart" and "Thunderstruck."

This album winning the Grammy sums up the middling state of music in 2010

Would listen again to around 2 songs on it but not really my cup of tea. It felt too slow, like every song was dragged.

Το άλμπουμ νομίζω είχε να κάνει με καταπίεση ή κάτι τέτοιο... δεν είμαι πολύ σίγουρος. Έχει ένα early 2000 θλιβερό ήχο. Μερικά κομμάτια είχαν πιο γρήγορο τεμπο αλλά τα περρισότερα ακολουθούσαν τη παραπάνω λογική. Είχε ωραίο ήχο αλλα προσωπικά βαρέθηκα μερικά. Month of May

god... the perfect distillation of nostalgia for/desperation to escape the suburbs. hits much harder in my 30s than my teens. so many beautiful lines that still knock me breathless with their simplicity: - In my dreams we're still screaming and running through the yard - So move your feet from hot pavement and into the grass - Maybe when you're older / You will understand / Why you don't feel right / Why you can't sleep at night - The summer that I broke my arm / I waited for your letter - Dreamed I drove home to Houston / On a highway that was underground (hits so hard as someone born in Houston that it still gives me goosebumps sometimes) - Our heads are just houses / without enough windows - Oh, this city's changed so much / Since I was a little child / Pray to God I won't live to see / The death of everything that's wild - Now the cities we live in / Could be distant stars / And I search for you / In every passing car - I know it's heavy / I know it ain't light / But how you gonna lift it with your arms folded tight? - We're still kids in buses / longing to be free god, and the echoing themes of half light, the summer, learning to drive, the town and the road... all the interpolations of the same lyrics and themes are done so well that you feel a jolt of recognition when you hear them, not a sense of repetition. it's just a masterwork. shame about win butler : |

great album, i listened to it like 5 times. shame about win butler though. favorites: the suburbs, ready to start, modern man, rococo, city with no children, suburban war, month of may, sprawl 1 & 2, suburbs continued

Funeral is one of my favourite albums of all time; this is just an echo of that sound. Nice enough but nothing standout.

pretty good fell off in the middle tho 72/100 started off really strong

boring

No fav song

I couldn't wait for this to end. I find this indie rock music sooooo boring and uninspired. It wasn't unpleasant, but it didn't even have one song that I liked. There were some interesting guitar moments here and there, but all in all, this was a chore. 2/5

Seems to go on with not that much change in the songs. pretty fucking boring.

I guess there are quite good musicians in the band. But it didn't convince me, though.

Not my thing but chill. 2.5

Many would probably say this is their best album, and whilst it is a great collection of songs, it is also greater than the sum of its parts, yet I always think if I was to pick my top 5, maybe even top 10 Arcade Fire songs, I’m not sure any from The Suburbs would make the cut and it’s often that reason that Funeral or Neon Bible are my favourites. The Suburbs is somewhat of a concept album exploring modern youth, suburban life, coming of age and a loss of innocence, the themes are evident in every song and even has a pair of couplets all supporting the idea that this is an album to be listened to in its entirety rather than picked out for individual songs.

It was fun upbeat and I really enjoyed it

This is the third AF album I've gotten so far. Can't imagine there are many more on this list. What I've learned is that they haven't held up as well as I would have thought they would've. Oh well.

Not bad. It wouldn't hurt my feelings to listen to it again. It seems like something that could grow on me with time. But I'll give it a 3 for now.

To be honest, I'd barely listened to the band's music; I only knew about three songs. But this album is fabulous. It made me feel many emotions, it left me thinking, and I was fascinated by the story told through the songs and the beautiful transitions from one song to another.

not special for me but good

Well, they can't all be Master of Puppets The thing about Arcade Fire isn't even that they're bad. They're aggressively fine. The thing is that they are never as good as the critics and fans try to say. There isn't really an analogue... there are lots of overrated bands that are at least unique. There are lots of very popular bands that are critically hated, because they are terrible. There aren't many bands who get the ass kissed deeper for less. And that makes rating hard, because it kinda always comes up against that bias. To be fair, though, this album isn't one I've heard and it is better than the ones i have. The best stuff here is the female fronted stuff. The majority of this is not that. It feels like an album that wants to be something without knowing exactly what. I think i would like it more if it succeeded in finding out. It also feels like it would be a breakout album from another band. For some reason, from the arcade fire, it feels more like a reinvention to fit into the modern scene, not one to shed a skin of youth into maturity. Certainly win butler cannot be said to have blossomed into maturity at all. There's just always something that feels not quite right. Probably a light 3* in total fairness, though Sprawl II is a hidden gem (compare to Sprawl I for my point about the female vocal songs being better than win's)

3/5. The Suburbs is the best arcade fire album in my opinion (I generally do not like Arcade Fire particularly much). that being said I’m still not in love with the album as a whole, there are just some high-highs like the one-two opening punch of “the suburbs” and “ready to start” or the hard hitting “empty room.” But as a whole I’ve still just never had that “aha” moment with arcade fire where I truly love one of their albums even though I typically love me some indie rock. There are enough good songs here though to where it was a decent experience.

I liked this a lot. This definitely more for me than Nenon Bible. This album has a weird feeling of nostalgia coming to an end. It feels like a coming of age film. Some songs were real growers that I liked way more than I originally thought I would. Yeah this was good, look forward to a relisten

no me gustó, no es mi estilo

Lacks the dynamism and variety of both Funeral and Neon Bible. It’s not a bad album but it’s a bit boring and samey. 3

Brilliant album. Familiar with a few songs already but first time I think I've listened to it from start to finish. I can see why this was so critically acclaimed at the time.

Really good music. I enjoyed the mix of generes and sounds on the entire record. Also - always good to get a full album under your belt of a group that you’ve heard a lot about, but never actually engaged with this closely before.

OK. 2/5

4.3/10 Музыка как в уютной забегаловке/баре,где все друг друга знают в штате Оригон.Звучание песен не в моем вкусе

ehh pretty good, it was alright. probably wouldn’t listen again but it was catchy 👍

As the cover goes, a great road-trip album. One to go back to. Tad too long.

Golf

Joining the rotation!

I am not the biggest Arcade Fire fan, I find their music passable and forgettable. I dont have any major qualms with this album, and it ends strongly, but its just missing the Pizazz that it needs. 3/5

Nice geeh-tars.

Highlights: title track, Sprawl II, Month of May, Rococco, Empty Room

This is an interesting one for me. I remember first discovering Arcade Fire during the 2011 Grammy Awards. I was a Sophomore in college, watching from my bedroom with my girlfriend at the time. I had just gotten heavy into jam band music and thought indie music was boring. She was watching for Lady Gaga. I remember they performed with BMX bikers that had cameras on their helmets. The song was fun but didn't really do anything for me. Then they ended up winning AOTY and since the show was running short, AF performed again, sparking controversy that the whole thing was scripted. Anyways, this album kept popping up for me and I would keep skipping by it, even as I got into Indie properly. I'm not sure when or why, but this album has aged immaculately for me. That first half of the album brings up very specific memories in my life, and the rest of the songs are really good. Better than "Funeral"? Maybe, maybe not. We'll see.

uninspired indie slop

I really enjoyed this album.

This album is rich with layers and textures. Every song had me wondering what was next. An enjoyable listen that I will gladly do a more of in the future.

The third of the trifecta of (spoiler) pretty much perfect Arcade Fire albums. But maybe I was growing out of my indie rock phase when this came out, because I didn't listen to it much. The mistake was mine. What strikes me with this is the incredible restraint shown - for something with such a maximalist production, they let tension build and release with a deft touch. When the climaxes hit, they are that much more impactful. It really feels like an album designed to elicit an emotional response, and it does. We cover a lot of different genres, and yet it doesn't sound like a collection of songs. This is really a trip you just have to take with them, a 64-minute drive. That being said, there are individual songs, moments, that are worth the price of admission on their own. Too many to mention. Anyway, this is a 5. It always was.

A bit longer than it needs to be, but has all of the best parts of what Arcade Fire does included amidst some draggy sections. A fun listen, and it was great to have a reason to re-listen to an album I already knew I liked. However, this probably isn’t even the best Arcade Fire album, let alone something near the top tier for me in general.

The suburbs is GREAT.

8.5/10

Funny that one of the best tracks, "Sprawl", occurs at the end of the album. You have to drive through several neighborhoods - some bland, some interesting - to get there, and you're a little tired when you arrive, You can't quite remember where you started from, but you enjoyed the scenery. Some of it was beautiful, in fact. But you wish the trip had been a little shorter.

I tried to like the first two Arcade Fire albums when they came out. I never got into the Suburbs in 2010 and I feel even more ambivalent toward it in 2026. Accusations against Win Butler also taint their legacy. 2/5.

I hate this one the least out of the now 3 albums from this band.

If beige was an album, this would be it.

Pretty good album

Rococo wasn't that bad guys. But fr they're sort of giving sad, low production MGMT

didn’t get through it. shitty indie music (a genre i don’t usually mind) but like actually shit

fairly standard 2010s indie rock. rococo is straight ass, genuinely one of the most boring, uninventive imagine dragons ahhh songs. empty room was ok but felt like an imitation of earlier 90s/0s bands with little to no originality. seem like a slightly less awful coldplay but the bar is in hell. sprawl II and the suburbs were decent.

I feel like I had this one recently... Maybe it was Funeral? Are Arcade Fire problematic? I like their music still.

Chilla, lekkurt. Ikki so galið. Meira lekkur bakgrundstónleikur enn fara djúpt inn í tekstin. Heitur.

Sounds like it was inspired by late 80s and early 90s college radio and managed to take all the worst elements from it.

A chill album to listen to while working, I liked it Fav songs - Ready to Start, Empty Room 3/5

4/5

Vibe merchants obsessed with cheap nostalgia make a double album where the songs mostly sound identical. Full disclosure: I've had an axe to grind with this band since their debut, but I did go into this listen with as much of an open mind as I could. And hey, the first 3 songs made me think for a second that maybe I was wrong all these years. 'The Suburbs' has an interesting melodic trick of turning a verse full of innocence into a chorus full of icy dread. 'Ready To Start' may not go anywhere, but at least it has some energy, and 'Modern Man' has a fun, tricky time signature. But after that, the songs truly just blend together into a mass of similar rhythms, monotonous melodies and vocals that sound like a whiny Springsteen karaoke singer paired with Linda McCartney.

lo escuche una sola vez y no me enloquece mucho. muy indie. algun que otro temon

Deeping Feelings, my ears matches with a lot of sounds.

Some may say that Arcade Fire was just a moment in time, but I still love their core albums. It's not even nostalgia driven because I'd never listened to an album other than Reflektor until after 2018, so my love is pure.

Banger. Perfect start to finish. Don't know what I could add here.

This was generally a good album. Although, besides one song, "Rococo", I'm not sure if I could name other songs on this album that I liked. This just seemed like a concept album that took the genericism of the suburbs as inspiration and then took that inspiration too far.

Un solido 4. Qué gran banda es Arcade of fire, amo su música.

I dunno, if you like Killers/Muse/Imagine Dragons or that kinda stuff its fine I guess, but its very boring sounding to me. Lyrics are kinda political/satirical? I can't really say. Songs feel very long and not goind anywhere really, vocals are okay I guess. I just cant find the appeal, but can't say I hate it or anything, just wouldn't listen voluntarily or recommend to anyone

This music is listenable but there’s not a lot of stand outs. I like the through-theme of getting out of the burbs, I guess. The mixing really dampened the vocals so it was hard to understand most of the lyrics.

Back when this came it I remember it felt like something new was happening. But it hasn’t aged very well. It’s about as exciting as the suburbs themselves.

Excellent production and songwriting. Started and finished on very high notes. A little too long, middle was slightly sluggish. Highlights: The Suburbs, Ready to Start, Rococo, Month of May, Wasted Hours, Deep Blue, Sprawl I Lowlight: City with No Children

5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/arcade-fire/the-suburbs/ Was my favorite album by my favorite band for a good while, until they fell off both musically and personally. Upon relistening in full for the first time in quite a while, it still fucking slaps. Some of their best songs and lyrics on this thing. Can’t believe this is the same guy writing the shit on Everything Now and Pink Elephant. What a let down, fuck you, Win.

No es mi tipo de música por eso me costó un poco escucharlo. Me gustó más sobre el final. Lo que me gustó también es como suenan todos los instrumentos y todos tienen su protagonismo.

mi sembra gazzelle che canta in inglese con delle basi musicali un po’ più sofisticate, ma nessuna canzone mi ha entusiasmato.

Un sound che assomiglia ai Blur di oggi. Ottimo se durante una passeggiata in montagna dopo mesi in pianura padana pesti una merda di mucca ma te ne freghi, la scarpa si pulirà durante il resto del cammino

Some highs but this album did not catch me off guard once, a bit flat although is a good listen don't get me wrong, more like a weak 3

Really like this

I’d got this far without ever listening to Arcade Fire and frankly, I wish I’d got further. It’s like The Strokes if they were shite.

Really strong opening half, loses its way a bit in the middle but picks up again after Wasted Hours. Some really great tracks, ones I already knew (The Suburbs, Ready to Start and We Used To Wait) and some I didn't (Modern Man, Empty Room and City with No Children). Overall an impressive record, 3.5/5.

More boring than watching and waiting for dry paint to peel away from the wall

Что-то мне не нравится в звуке этой группы. Этот альбом понравился больше, чем другие.

Having to listen to another album full of walls of sound with no relief made my ears hurt again.

Not overly inspiring, not overly disappointing. It just is what it is.

There is something about this that just feels so drippy and whiny. He likes expects the world to fall down at his feet and to be so amazing and wonderful, yet he seems to not find happiness in the little things in life and wants to do nothing to find happiness. Let's just mock those around him that are simple and find happiness in the normal everyday life around them. Its not bad...but just get over yourself dude.

They have a pretty cool sound. The ones that caught my ear: Ready to Start, Empty Room, City w No Children, Month of May, Wasted Hours, Deep Blue, We Used to Wait and Sprawl II and I especially like Sprawl II because Régine Chassagne is singing the lead and I think the album would have been stronger if she would have sang lead more often. I'm a 3.5 with this but it's creative enough to keep me coming back for deeper listens so I'll go 4.

I really dug this album when it came out and haven't listened in years. In fact, if I had to guess which of the three albums of theirs from this list would be my favorite, I'd assume it to be this one. But I would assume wrong! I like the songs where the woman's vocals are more the star, but the dude has a bit of a whiny factor to him, and it got to be a lot after an hour + of this. It's the same emotional drip song after song, and I'm just not this emo anymore apparently! They need to make more II songs because Sprawl II and Half Light II are my faves on here. Anyway, apparently Funeral wins my top vote based on my reviews!

Interesting concept but I found the music a bit boring for such a long album.

Ok listening, no songs really stuck with me but i've added the album to a playlist for another listening

I do love a concept album. But I would never have believed you if you told me this was album of the year. Sprawl II is gas though.

I was happy for the album to finish. It wasn't bad it was just boring. Almost like the low-fat vanilla ice cream of alt rock. Just bland and almost being pretentious at times. I've listened to other arcade fire songs and they were much better. More edgy.

Just good

Vilken jäkla banger-platta. Inte helt kalas (vissa låtar kunde man nog klarat sig utan), men jäklar, det finns många bra låtar här: Suburban War, titelspåret, Modern Man, Wasted Hours, Deep Blue... Kommer lyssna igen!

THANK GOD this is such a fantastic album....lyrically, musically, tonally.......beautifully cohesive i had forgotten how much i love this one, absolute no skip

fire was right, good vibe wld listen again, sprawl is gassss

Love that Arcade Fie went for a concept here, but it just drones on...It's good but I wouldn't want to lisen to this as long as I did.

I’m disappointed. I thought this would be the album in arcade fire’s discography that would fight against there beautifully crafted soul reaching album funeral. This album was just so on and off for me. I really like crawl 1 and 2 and some others like suburbs but none of these songs compare to any on funeral. Overall it was a total disappointment as I did get some good songs but also some misses and no songs that really touched me except crawl 1 and 2