The Suburbs

This is when I started to get bored with the Arcade Fire

Was fine. Nothing really stood out too much but I'd listen to it again. Best song: The Suburbs Notable(s): None

I forgot how much I loved this album and Arcade Fire. I had their first three albums on CD and always loved them but I feel like I haven't heard them in a minute. While Neon Bible was my favourite, playing this album has bought back so much nostalgia. I love a concept album and this took me on a journey. While this is not a perfect album, as a whole I appreciate the ups and downs and still remains an amazing album to spin. Arcade Fire seems to be the measuring stick for this kind of mid 00's indie rock, they had the sound perfected and with each album they offered something unique and a little different but always amazing...until The Suburbs, I hear it is all down hill after this album. Standouts: The Suburbs, Ready to Start, Suburban War, Deep Blue Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

not my thing

It’s fine but not a fan - 2nd AF album I’ve been served in same week 😩

I don't know that Arcade Fire is ever going to reach the heights of Funeral for me, but the Suburbs does come pretty close. Bits of this record drag just a little, but that's just being nitpicky. For the most part, The Suburbs stays pretty interesting. 4.3/5

While Arcade Fire will never do anything better than Funeral, this is a very good album. This record is a course correction from the misfire that was Neon Bible. Great effort from a band than will likely never leave the shadow of their greatest work.

I have always preferred Funeral when it comes to AF records, and this one took me a while to really 'get' even though there are some really strong tracks on here. But listening to this again today and it really hit home what a great record this. I still maintain Funeral is the best record AF have done, and a contender for best debut album of all time, but this was fantastic.

not quite on the level of Funeral for me but I remember this coming out and it being a big hit at the time. Doesn't quite stand the test of time for me

4/7

Sound isn’t particularly impressive and lyrics are simple and lay out the themes for you. Though the string orchestration, and spacy synth stabs do succeed in giving the unique ethereal vibe that they usually go for. It’s a slow burn and grows on you as you go, but I prefer other arcade fire.

Modern Man carries it, great song on it's own. Otherwise it's ABBA songs with Modest Mouse production.

Just like the last Arcade Fire album it does enough to keep me listening but not enough to stop being boring.

It was an alright listen for a bit, but then I realized it was an hour long and I was content halfway through. Way less impressed than I was with Funeral.

Nostalgic and tragic lyrically. But not really my favorite to listen to

I've never quite gotten the hype for Arcade Fire. On top of everybody being super pretentious about them so that doesn't really help. I loved "Reflecktor" (the song) when that first dropped. Their albums to me have some obvious highlights, but also parts (sometimes even within 1 song) that bore the hell out of me and I start to lose focus. This one I found pretty strong mostly. Stuck between high 3 or low 4. Think this one's a low 4 because I'm high so some songs are enhanced

That was really bad.

When this album first came out I thought it was their best work, but over time I have shifted to Neon Bible being their best. This is still a classic but doesn't quite have as much staying power as I thought it would.

It was okay, not my speed really

One of my favorite albums of all time. So great!

Well that was disappointing. Doesn't hold a candle to their first two albums and not needed on this list.

it sounds like something many people love but for some reason i didnt end up as one of those people

A good album. Dreamy in a way that's consistent with the music back then but also a bit more mainstream-rock-accessible. The synths and organ and the swirling soundscape have always made this feel a little 80's to me, but without the brutally bad reverb on everything. If you want to know what it felt like to be engaging with the world in the short time that followed the Great Recession of 2008-2009, this is it. There's hope in here but there's also a great deal of anxiety and angst. It's a good album and was influential in its own time. As a fairly modern entry in the list, it's hard to say that this is fundamentally essential listening. It may not confer a great understanding of music as it is today but it's still worth a spin. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a masterpiece, nor to say all music ought to sound something like this. It's an hour and four minutes of your life that you're likely to enjoy. 3.5/4; whatever rating I actually gave this in the end depended entirely on how I was feeling by its end.

Sort of just ok. Not as good as Neon Bible, definitely not as good as Funeral. Just a decent rock album, I guess. I can’t see myself coming back to it, so it tops out at a 2 for me.

not worth the time to finish the album, life is to short for this, it was one long run on sprawling redundant boring snooze fest, it sounds like 1800 got junk

I was a big fan of Arcade Fire when this album came out. The only time I saw them live was on their 2010 tour in support of this album, in fact. It was a genuinely great show, though it was unseasonably chilly for the first week of August, and the show was outdoors. All of that is preamble to say that this album is not nearly as good as I remembered it being. There's a handful of songs here that are among the band's best, for sure. The first four and final four tracks on the album are fantastic little suites. But the middle 8 is sluggish, punctuated only by the high point of "Month of May". Listening to this stretch now, I find myself wishing that someone had argued for making that middle portion leaner.

I asked a friend to pass his Arcade Fire collection onto me in 2012, but I never bothered to listen. Fast forward to 2014 and I was at Glastonbury, on the Headline Stage, playing the first two tracks off this album. They quickly joined the rotation of my playlists. However, I never really bothered to listen beyond that. Well, today, I did. Unfortunately, I was stuck at work and had it on in the background. However, I did really enjoy what I was hearing. It didn't pull me away from what I was doing, but there was a lot I liked in it. Not a very helpful review, but I'm giving it 4 stars.

4/5. Arcade Fire is always pretty great, but this one doesn't seem to hit for me. It feels grand and epic but the songs are too similar and I can get lost within its track list, save a few bangers. I think this album could be shortened by removing maybe 4-5 songs. The theme is pretty clear after about 3 songs in and it doesn't really veer from that idea or offer anything new. The issue is that whole album is pretty catchy and accessible, which is a feat despite the length. It's not the best Arcade Fire album but it does nail the modern dad music vibe. Best Song: The Suburbs, Sprawl II, Month of May

Great indie record!

Perfect representation of the 2000’s

Way too “indie” for me. Not a fan.

The Suburbs is Arcade Fire's most personal and down to earth album, and also their most sonically cohesive. Even though I didn’t grow up in the suburbs myself, I could still relate to the feelings it describes of nostalgia, aimlessness and the frustration of watching your world change and you cannot control it. The album looks back on childhood and teenage years and it’s not all warm memories and sunshine. It feels more like remembering what shaped you, but also made you feel stuck and confused. If you're someone who often has these feelings, this album will hit hard. The music is simpler than on their earlier albums, but it still has a lot of variety. You can hear influence from rock, punk, shoegaze, synthpop, and even a bit of country, but nothing sounds out of place and it all comes together beautifully. The band doesn’t show off or try to impress you with big sounds all the time and instead focus on what each song really needs. Even louder songs like "Month of May" or "Empty Room" feel controlled and focused. A big part of this album is the feeling of time passing and wondering what it all meant. Songs like "Wasted Hours" and "City With No Children" talk about feeling empty or unsure as an adult, while "Modern Man" and "Suburban War" remember the past with both sadness and care. There are a lot of lyrics about driving, but not like to escape, it’s more like driving (going) around in circles, not really getting anywhere. That feeling of being lost in a familiar place is what the album does really really well. Even though the mood is often quiet or sad, the album still has some hopeful moments. The best example is "Sprawl II", where Regine sings over bright synths and gives the album a powerful ending. It’s different from most of the songs before it, but it doesn’t feel out of place, it feels like finally breaking out of the grey and seeing color again. It’s full of life and energy, even if the message is still serious. The Suburbs doesn’t grab your attention right away, but it grows on you the more you listen. It’s about feeling caught between the past and the present, and trying to understand how your memories shaped you. It’s not about running away, it’s about thinking carefully about where you came from, and what that means for who you are now. The tracklist is a bit inconsistent, the album is kind of front loaded and the middle section drags on a little, but it all comes together in the end. 4/5

The title track is one of my favorite songs in general. It makes me think about beautiful life is, but also sad about how time is passing by quickly, how we are moving “past the feeling” in the present moment, never being able to catch it completely. This is probably not what the author meant with this line, but it is what I think about every time I am listening this song.

This album is like when you have managed to talk a girl who is out of your league into going out for a drink with you. You don’t have your own car yet, so you have to borrow your mum’s. Needing to make up for this bad start, you know you have to take this girl somewhere fashionable and cool, but it still has to be a safe pick - not too weird so as to make a potentially polarising statement about your personality

Great album all the way through.

😴

Nice, indi rock a bit psychedelic. I can tell why people like it

Me gustó, siento que con 2 o 3 escuchas más me va a gustar incluso más. Solo conocía un tema de la banda así que me voy a seguir adentrando.

Awesome album, love the combination of genres here. Listened to the deluxe edition and speaking in tongues is a great add on.

Loved this album when it came out, it really evokes a nostalgia for a pre-internet adolesence, although I grew up in a village not in the suburbs. Still holds up well, and now one feels nostalgia for an Arcade Fire before they dropped off and we learnt more about the proclivities of the band.

This was good morning drive music!

Forgot about this album. Loved it

Decent album. Needs more boom pop

Grew up in the suburbs, bought this album on CD at Best Buy the week it came out, helping propel it to #1. I am the target audience for this album. Love it. It's probably too long with a couple of clunker tracks - with more editing I think it'd be a 5-star.

Beautiful and very thematic. I feel nostalgic even on my first listen.

Fuck rating albums. Just let me listen.

This album has a sound, a story that is perfection and is one of the greatest albums ever made, I can't say there is one song out of place or that I don't love.. It also brings me straight back to university and listening to it with a crush to like some of the stuff she liked and turned up loving it.

Excellent

Simply ok

I love reading the reviews, it amazes me how something that someone loves so dearly can be hated equally by someone else. Such is human nature. Just like the capacity for someone to be a part of something as insightful and beautifully empathetic for human experience as this record but (allegedly) be capable of such ugliness that it's hard to reconcile the two. I love this album for what it meant to me when it was first released and the feelings it brings back when I listen to it now. Life and people seem much more complicated and capable of such extremes than I realised when I first heard this but those contradictions can be ignored for hour or so it takes to listen to this album.

a city with no children sounds awesome honestly

I’ve now gotten three of this band’s albums. I don’t get what the big deal is. Like a glum-sounding Spoon. It’s not bad, but it’s not blowing me away either.

Never heard anything from this album besides suburbs 2. Which I really love. The rest of the album is great as welll and has a few other standout tracks but nothing beats the song I had already heard.

I enjoyed the overall sound and vibe this album was putting out. Definitely liked it more than the last album of theirs that populated on this list (Neon Bible). Thematically this sounded very Springsteen-esque (at least one song made me immediately think of Neil Young), so it wasn't terrible. However, I'm not sure if this album (nor their last one) deserve to live on a list where you need to hear this before you die.

Not bad, but I found it completely average throughout. Nothing was great and nothing was horrible. This was an album I heard.

Look I don't even ride that hard for this band but this album is pretty spectacular.

Listened whilst walking through fields on a hot summer evening as a storm started to blow in. The effect was “the apocalypse is here, and we’re not too unhappy about it”. Marching band for the indie scene, always driving on. A sense of hope but sprinkled with an unsettling extra beat in the meter, or a chord progression that throws you off balance. Helped me pin down the fact that I stopped listening to new music in 2009, as I obsessed about their first two albums but didn’t recall a single song from this.

Eigentlech möched sie jo nüd falsch aber de ergendwie scho. Es fod eigentlech no rächt spannend ah met "The Suburbs", met de ziit werds aber fascht e chli langwiilig wels emmer relativ ähnlech tönt. För chli i Hendergrond eigents sech no relativ guet, au wenn dete au ergendeinisch t Monotonität vom Albom uffallt. Spötischtens wemmers ufmerksam dörelost werd eim de schnell mol langwiilig.

It's a style that got really popular and all turned into background noise but this album helped set the stage for it and was pretty inventive. Good usage of instruments and a good vibe. I think this has a place on the list even if it isn't something I'd reach to put on much.

This sounds like a bunch of other albums we've listened to but it is very well executed. There is a reason I've heard about them so much without really giving them my full attention. Modern Man is in my wheel house sonically. I'm not sure we need so much Arcade Fire on the list. Maybe pick one or two.

Not especially engaging

ok

A perfect concept album with nothing but bangers. Sprawl II has to be one of their absolute best! And happy day 900 to me 😇

Udmærket indierock, moderne, måske lidt kedeligt

I’m a huge Arcade Fire fan and went to see them live on this tour. An incredible band

Good atmospheric concept album. Wasn't impressed 1st time, grew on me the 2nd listen. 3.9

Loved the early Arcade Fire work. I read a lot of Douglas Coupland in the 90s and this feels like an album version of his books. Broad mix of instruments, brooding and angsty lyrics, songs that build and build - all things I'm looking for in my dad rock. One-two punch of The Suburbs and Ready to Start is a fantastic way to open the album. Elbows up Canada!

Love this album

5/10

There isn’t an award that this album didn’t win but 3.5 in my mind round up to 4 cause they’re Canadian

I had heard of Arcade Fire before, but I had absolutely no idea what their sound was. This was a breath of fresh air that I was not expecting. I'm not even totally sure what "their sound" is, but I found it very rich and melodic, with a driving, pumping force and rhythm to it that made my ears happy. Four stars.

Pretty standard "alt" sound

Not for me

Not bad. The best song was Wasted Hours, which just seemed to hit right when I’m pushing my baby in the pram! Would I listen again? Probably not, except that one song.

I really like the first few songs but just kinda died down on me. Heard this album years ago too. But it’s like a 2.8

This wasn't the Arcade Fire album I expected on this list, which means I have to actually listen to it all the way through now. I've made it to Half Light I and so far I'd say there aren't any bad songs in this album. Not life-changing by any means, but still good music. In Half Light II, the singer has a bit of a Springsteen Americana sound to his voice, which I like. There are more power chords in this album than I was expecting, especially in songs like Month of May. The choppy piano changing to a bass line in We Used to Wait is cool. He sounds so melancholy about the sprawl. Maybe he shouldn't drive through there. The woman doesn't seem as upset about it, though.

No need to listen - this album was on constant rotation for me from 2010-2017. And despite Win Butler’s bad press in recent years nothing can change for me its brilliance. The Suburbs is top 20 all time song for me. 5/5

Sexual misconduct allegations so I will NOT be listening! Album of the day does not mean losing my morals!

Banger

Nothing wrong with it, and I would put it on sometimes, but there's a laziness or sluggishness that kept me from being more interested or engaged. Sprawl II stood out as a good listen for me.

When I started to listen to this I was expecting it to sound like "Sex Is On Fire" but it didn't so I searched and found out that apparently I was thinking about Kings of Leon and that I really had no idea who Arcade Fire is. I mean, I've heard of them but... Anyway, this was fine I guess.

Whole albums gives a very "hype chill guy" type of flavour. I like it. The whole album feels very consistent. Would be a nice album to play in a skate store of sorts. 3/5

Co-produced by Arcade Fire and Markus Dravs, the band concocts a big, anthematic sound on this record but also manages to sneak in some weirder sonic elements. Doesn't break a ton of new ground but the performances are convincing and the songwriting is solid.

This is well made but just nothing special. I liked most songs here, but none of them are particularly impressive, and after a while, they started to blend together—not particularly memorable. This album is enjoyable, but aside from high production values, it doesn’t do anything to stand out. 7/10

Always sort of been meh about Arcade Fire. Funeral is the record I've heard more than once. This is about the same as that one. Kind of just okay throughout.

I enjoyed this listen! Was aware of the hits but i did enjoy Modern Man and added it to my playlist.

You know, I'd rather go to Laval again

The first half of the album album's biggest weakness was that the songs were repetitive and formulaic. They had a couple good bones each, but not enough to make a skeleton. I feel like that significantly changed towards the second half of the album. "Suburban War", "Waste", and "The Sprawl I" were good songs. (As usual, I tend to like the few more solemn songs on otherwise fast albums.) I definitely might listen to some of them again. Overall, I like the idea of an album that bemoans the monotony of suburban sprawl. I only wish it would've been better.

Every Arcade Fire album I've listened to so far from this list are all the same: a few good songs and a lot of meh filler.

I feel very indifferent towards this album. The first couple tracks are pretty good but there are lots of monotonous songs throughout the album. By the end I was done.

hm, klang für mich alles ziemlich gleich, aber war jetzt auch keine Ruhestörung das Album. Wenn man in der Stimmung ist sicherlich sehr angenehm.

Wunderschön melancholisch, seit langem eines meiner Lieblingsalben. Insbesondere The Suburbs, Ready to start, und Rococo sehr starker Start. Suburban War mein Lieblingslied vom Album. Höre es mir immer gerne wieder an.

Wundert mich schon, dass dies Album of the Year bei den Grammys gewonnen hat. Ist nettes Gedudel, aber auch kein Meisterwerk. Sprawl II war aber ein echt cooler Song

Rockcito lavado con poco punch. No te digo que está mal pero no es lo mío. Se vuelve laaaaaaaaargo

My kind of thing, I enjoyed and would easily listen again. Heard of the band but I think they were slightly after my time?

Underwhelming compared to their first two albums except for the title track and Sprawl II.

Ok background album. Didn’t resonate with me

Nace para fondo

some bops. but a little much an artifact of its time for my taste?

Crazy takes here. This is a classic album

I breezed through that album without realizing what songs were which. It all sounds the same.

Ah the album that made me not like Arcade Fire. Insists upon itself (not a compliment), boring bloated bloviating. Did they only know how to write songs to the same bpm? 0 liked songs.

Sprawl II was good. 2 stars!

This is the 142nd album I’m rating. I have a feeling this is going to be another shitty indie rock album. Adding to my Playlist - The Suburbs, City with no Children, Half Light I, Half Light II (No Celebration), Wasted Hours, and Sprawl II (Mountains beyond Mountains). Not Adding to my Playlist - Ready to Start, Modern Man, Rococo, Empty Room, Suburban War, Month of May, Deep Blue, We Used to Wait, Sprawl I (Flatland), and the Suburbs (Continued). All in all I liked 6/16 songs. Not as shitty as I thought it would be. Actually a pretty decent indie rock album.

Omg it just drones on and feels so uninspired. 2/5

This was okay at first, then some songs were less pop and more emo and sounded the same. But it was a decent enough sound.

Welp, this album from 15 years ago feels pretty astute. The suburbs were an accessible version of the American dream, affordable because they were shoddy and mass-produced, brand new but already falling apart. And as the album anticipates, we're being sold an even cheaper fake dream online as the physical suburbs become unsustainable. The music perfectly captures the feeling of summer in the Midwest. The layers of instruments feel humid and stultifying. A bit cloying even (e.g. the title track or 'Rococo') but with something dissonant lurking underneath. I think the beauty is in how it tackles its subject matter as incisively as any punk band might, but there's still a gentleness and compassion for the people who grew up here. Children, basically, who can't escape. Anyways yeah, it resonates me a lot. I can confirm that 'Sprawl II' has occasionally caused me to cry.

A classic of the indie era. A solid, cohesive experience, and I really love some of the songs on here. Maybe a smidge too long? But when you're vibin', you're vibin'.

6/17/25. About time I listened to this album in full, I missed out for sure. Great album and each song flowed into each other nicely. Will need a couple listens to grasp the overall theme and story, although I have a shallow idea after one listen.

Fine, nothing too memorable. I like the first song

This is the kind of vibe I've been looking for. Some fast-paced, fun rock.

SUper

This is S-Tier for me. I love Arcade Fire, and Suburbs is as good as it gets. 5-stars!!

I've heard some epic songs from Arcade Fire and saw that this album was rated top 5 or top 3 in many cases for them. Maybe it is just the day, but I'm not feeling it. Deep Blue had a nice feel to it, a little like a muted Neutral Milk Hotel song. That said, I had to stop pausing the album to, in my mind, go do something interesting. Then eventually Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) grabbed my attention again and I was able to push through to the end of the album.

wunderbar verlorene melodien aus einer vorstadt unserer kindheit .. mir gefällt es als konzept und album. highlight: The Suburbs.

Alternativ Rock vom Feinsten

Feels like an album in a world of playlists. Only slight criticism is that it may be a bit too long. How this is 15 years old is baffling.

This is my third Arcade Fire album so far, and honestly, having three albums from the this band on this list feels like a disservice to all the other artists who didn’t make the cut. Pick one, they all sound generally the same. That said, The Suburbs does have a few solid tracks. “The Suburbs,” “Ready to Start,” and “Sprawl II” are all worth your time. The rest? Forgettable at best. It’s not a bad album, but it’s hard to get excited about a band that seems to keep making slight variations of the same thing. 3.5 stars

A solid album with many interesting musical ideas. I need to listen to it more because so far it only ended up as a nice background stuff.

The Good: We know it is going to be bland… The Bad: I don’t live in the suburbs due to blandness… The Ugly: Lo-Fi… I can understand that there are persons born around the mid ‘90s who will totally love this album, as it will remind them of their youth. I get it. Thing is, I was not born in the mid ‘90s as, at that time, I was partying my ass off not wanting college to end… My main thoughts about this album; too long, too pretentious, too much of too little. I fear I will have to score below 3 on this one...

I feel their sound developed as the album went on - I feel it wasn't engaging enough to pull me out of work till the back half of the album. But grew fonder as it went on.

Pretty good. I liked Month of May - it reminded me of Rent. Not sure this is an album you NEED to listen to before death, though.

*Arcade Fire fan, so I know all of the good songs on this one, but I’ve never listened to the whole album. *Could easily get rid of 4+ songs in the middle and make it a fantastic 45-55 min album instead of 65 mins. *Feels like a cohesive album as opposed to just a series of standalone songs. *Love when their songs build and alternate between quiet and loud. *Fave track - Sprawl II RATING - 8/10

Sucked. Music wasn’t good. I like good music. This wasn’t it.

They have a good sound, I’m willing to bed that I’d love their newer stuff and the evolution they have.

On the fence. I didn't hate it and didn't love it. It had some energy to it so I didn't get bored. The album is a little lengthy.

Just fine

I got really bored. Too slow for me. Might have potential if I give it a listen at a different time.

Chill. Thought it was decent but didn’t get me too excited

I've never given Arcade Fire a fair shake and have always wondered what the hype was. This album definitely made me a fan. This type of music has definitely infiltrated my daily vibes in the last 9 months so I'm glad I'm hearing this now instead of 2010 when this came out. 13 year old Jake would have hated this. 27 year old Jake can really appreciate this. It still feels very modern and ages well. It reminds me of The Killers, Young The Giant, MGMT, and The Revivalists. I really enjoyed it and will probably listen to this album multiple times in the future along with their other albums.

I think I'm tired of this band after two albums

Interesting

Discazo. Tenía un poco de dudas porque luego los discos de esta época resulta que unos años después no se sienten tan geniales como en su momento, pero no fue el caso. The Suburbs es un discazo super disfrutable, rockea duro y deja con ganas de escucharlo una y otra vez.

I enjoyed that - it's been a while since I listened to Arcade Fire, need to listen to some more!

Music of my generation! I enjoyed this

Great album, many good songs.

The kids are looking back on when they were kids, and it is still angsty, grandiose, and chock full of the big feels. The songs are complex--at times verging on busy--and the record is a bit too long, but the whole is punchily raw and honest. I can imagine screaming along at a stadium show, at age 55 recalling myself at 27 looking back on being 16.

I remember being disappointed with this one when it first came out. There are a couple of highlights, but as an album it does not hold a candle to Funeral.

I didn’t really get into this one when it came out, I think because I had turned 30, and was no longer fun or cool, but I appreciated it a lot more hearing it at this distance (because I’m cool again now, or because this album is no longer cool?)

“We used to wait / Sometimes it never came.” Twenty years later, I still think this album captured something about how life was changing in the twenty-first century. It’s so coherent and listenable. Torn between a 4 and 5 but going with my heart.

Didn't like them then, don't like them now!

I want to like it more. It opens strong, but all the rest of the albums sounds the same and it just plods along. Like they started off amazing then slide down until everything is just the same It's wild because I usually enjoy albums like this. It's not quite a concept album but it's all in a theme.

Naja

Was busy and barely heard it to be honest. But sounded alright.

Superb. Still superb.

Boooring

I think I’m just sick of this era of music lol

Nothing special here. Didn’t hate it as much as I thought but it’s painfully insignificant. Waaaay too long for what this is. The male vocals are just kinda lame. If it were all female vocals, it’d be better. I don’t care about this or anything that sounds like this at all.

This won over Katy Perry!??? Also isn’t this dude a creep? Anyways long and boring

Album got better as I listened. Favorite Track: Rococo

I like some of the moments in here but can’t see myself returning to it

medio flojo. escuché discos mejores de arcade fire

Alternative rock. Didn’t stick in my head at all.

1. The Suburbs: Toe-tapping, the piano picks up the pace, great singing, plaintive, great guitar in the background: I didn't like this song at the beginning, but the piano, the vocals, the beat got me...thumbs up. My heads bobbing now. Yep, I like this! Thumbs up to track 1. " We were already, already bored." yes we were..... TBH, I never lived in the suburbs; maybe in Germany? But that wasn't my house. It was my girlfriend's parents. So not really me living there. (We eventually broke up, my fault 100%, I am a cheating MFer.) Thumbs up to track 1. Question 1: Is this a concept album? Need the lyrics for the album. My player has provided the lyrics...yes! MUCH BETTER. 2. Ready To Start: Good 3. Modern Man: Great, obviously. There's a reason a song becomes a hit. Plus, you can sing along. 4. Rococo: "They build it up just to burn it back down..." Okay. That line makes sense. Good. 5. Empty Room: I don't speak/understand French, unfortunately. Probably doesn't matter. Enough said: When I'm by myself I can be myself.... 6. City With No Children: Well, personally, as an older man in a long-term relationship with a woman, and no children (DINKs), I don't miss having children, personally. We did take in a nephew when he was just becoming a teenager: 13 or 14 years old. That was enough parenting for me...(laughing). 7. Half Light I: a bit slow this one.... This not a celebration either. Just saying. Okay that's a dud. 8. Half Light II (No Celebration): Dud 2.... But I do like this line: "Some people say we've already lost But they're afraid to pay the cost for what we've lost Pay the cost for what we've lost" Yeah, still paying for that loss.... 9. Suburban War: Just a great song. Most excellent. 10. Month of May: Rocker! Love it...worth the price of admission. Have to say this is my favorite song so far. 11. Wasted Hours: Not my favorite. Screeching brakes on the energy from MoM...yuck. 12. Deep Blue: A song about a computer chess program? Nah.... 13. We Used To Wait: A song about pining for waiting for letters/the mail? Okay, I guess. That's quaint. And the US elected Trump...it's gotten worse. 14. Sprawl I (Flatland): Both of these songs are good, this one is better than II though. 15. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains): Kind of disco...not my thing. 16. The Suburbs (Continued): And we exit with strings....okay.

Didn't feel like relistening but it's pretty good, though ultimately forgettable, like all Arcade Fire

<3

This album... UNREAL. First album that got me into Arcade Fire - saw them live getting asked last second to take a ticket to their show on this tour. Such a great album!

A classic and timeless

This was my gateway album into the Arcade Fire and largely the indie genre as a whole. Excellent album with recurring motifs and melodies and excellent songwriting all around. Every piece of music comes together here. Separating the art from the artist on this review. Not sure that Win Butler is a great guy.

Fantastic

Missed this at the time - quite good!

Interesting. Not my cup of tea

consistent

3/5

Solid Arcade Fire Album. It's good, but not their best.

Senior year, 2010. Bunch of friends were excited this album won AOY for the GRAMMYS. Didn't understand at the time, finally heard the album the day after. It's been on rotation since, S tier.

This album always takes me back to college. Peak indie rock days. Who doesn't love a husband and wife band. I remember people freaking out because they didn't know who Arcade Fire was when they won a Grammy. It is hard for me to pick my favorite album between Suburbs, Funeral, and Reflektor, but I've enjoyed everything Arcade Fire has released.

Very sharp, atmospheric album.

A fun album I enjoyed. However, after this one was over I went and listen to Funeral. This is a solid outing, but not their best work.

Pretty engrossing from start to end, all of their albums on this site are a pleasure to receive Great experience, just a couple steps below the magical spark of Funeral 4/5

This was really bland. I might have known one of the songs from before, but it's hard to know. Really dull stuff.

This is a really good album that would be great if it were a little shorter. 4/5

A great time capsule - this record created, or at least crystallized, the trends of indie music in 2008-2014. Nostalgia that also holds up thematically

имба. один из любимых альбомов. есть небольшая история) впервые услышал и увидел клип на the suburbs по тв каналу A-One, в тот момент (мои 10-12 лет) очень запомнился, но канал закрыли, а название песни и группы я не запомнил, к сожалению, и только лет через 10 я их нашел, оказывается клип это кадры из фильма Scenes from the Suburbs (2011), всем советую. в целом - очень цепляющая и ностальгическая музыка.

Not a fan. Got bored listening to it.

Worth a listen if you're into peak millennial indie rock

Boo

Still sounds completely average to me, now that this project has made me listen to more Arcade Fire than ever. Two albums in a week has only served to confirm they're not my taste. If you like inoffensive, middle of the road music, that's fine. They're not bad musicians, but there's no spark to it, no fire (maybe they should call themselves Arcade), and minimal variety between songs. By Monday I'll have forgotten what they sounded like. Here's hoping we're stopping at 2 albums with this, as 1 was too many.

1. zuburbz - 1 2. ztart - 1.5 3. man - 1 4. roco - 0 5. room - 1 6. city - 1 7. light - 1.5 8. half - 1.5 9. uuar - 1 10. may - 1.5 11. hourz - 1.5 12. blue - 1 13. uuait - 1.5 14. zprauul - 1.5 15. zprauul - 2 16. zuburbz - 1

The long boring middle section drags this down from a 4 to a 3. This album has always been weird to me because I don't want to like it but it has some good songs on there. It did come out during a time in my life that resonated a lot though.

I remember listening to this when it won album of the year. I didn’t care for it then and I still don’t today.

The financial crisis really hit millenials hard, huh?

pffrrrrttt... Not my thing. Neon Bible was a fun listen as I was getting into indie music, but this was like Coldplay for hipsters. Boring overall and seemed bloated by self-importance.

Solid album, title track is great, album has a couple spots where is loses steam

Arcade Fire is like a Time Machine in that it slows down time so that it feels like an hour feels like two. Nothing terrible on this album, nothing great either. 3/5

Never understood the hype with this band. It’s not bad, just not interesting..

[The following contains a pretentious review] For me this is Arcade Fires best album. Even better than Funeral. The Suburbs is a great title for this album … an uneasy sense of settling for comfort. A brooding need for something better. “When all of the houses they built in the 70s finally fall”. Modern man typifies the feeling - . “In line for a number you don’t understand, like a modern man.” The lack of absolute anger in this album seems deliberate. A take on the apathy that takes when dreams hit reality. Is a low 5 even a thing? Low 5. Excellent album

Indie noise

Melancholy and sad 2010s indie, the title track is the stand out, it's a lengthy album, it's all fairly one note, but that one note is pretty great, a real beautiful sadness. That being said, the motifs border on repetitive.

4 stars

3.5 stars I listened to this a lot when it came out, but not lately. Partly because of the revelations that Win is, at the least, a creep. But also because I always found this album drags in the middle. The opening run from The Suburbs to Modern Man is incredible. Then it kind of starts to blur together until Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains). It’s not that I don’t like the songs in between. I think it just needed some more editing. I listened to the whole album a few times this weekend and it sounds great and I still really like it. But if I need to evaluate this as a whole album experience, the momentum just doesn’t sustain itself for the whole hour. Maybe I’m knocking off at least a half star because of Win.

I felt scared when this album landed on Friday. I love this record. This was a huge record for me in my 20s. I'm a massive fan of Arcade Fire's first 3 and a half albums (I really wish they had cut Reflektor down to a single album). I've seen them live multiple times. Watching this band perform Rebellion (lies) on TV at the Much Music Video Awards changed my life, shook me out of my very close minded view of rock music. Funeral is still a 5 star album for me (at least I want to believe it is). I vividly recall sitting in the common room of my university dorm, surrounded by new friends, watching this album win Album of the Year at the Grammy's and just feeling amazed that a little band from Montreal could do something like that. It was surreal and special. It made me want to make music. So ya… this was a big album for me… but that’s not exactly why I’m scared to review it. A few years ago there were some allegations of sexual misconduct against the lead singer, Win Butler. Ever since, I’ve been avoiding their music, and I stopped going to their shows. I have no clue if he’s guilty of a crime but the stories these women told about their interactions with him left a very bad taste in my mouth. For me, the shiny, positive, morally sound image that Win and the band had built over 20 years came crashing down. I felt disillusioned and walked away from the band.
 So ya... I’m went back into this record with complicated feelings. On the one hand, I wanted it to live up to the happy memories I have of it. On the other hand, I wanted to realize that it actually sucks and tear it down to hurt Win for ruining one of my favourite bands. Without further adieu… my thoughts on the record:

As much as I hate to say it (but I’m also a little relieved), I still love this record. I listened to it twice over the weekend. On the first listen, I felt like I was hunting for issues. I wanted to dislike it. I had mixed feelings when it ended. On the second listen, I let it wash over me and stopped overthinking it…. Let myself enjoy it. The big songs, the singles, they still hit. The Suburbs, Ready to Start, We Used to Wait and Sprawl 2… they’re all pretty amazing. There’s so much variety in those 4 tracks. The slow nostalgia of suburbs, the driving hype of ready to start, the moody, sadness of we used to wait, and the electronic, synth bliss of Sprawl. Each one is special in a very different way. Deep cuts like Month of May, Modern Man, Empty Room, Suburban War, Wasted Hours and Deep Blue are also pretty amazing. The punk edge of May, the existential dread of modern man, the aggressive strings of empty room, the latin guitar on suburban war, the warm vibes of wasted hours and the Funeral energy of Deep blue. These songs still really work for me. There isn’t really a bad song on this album. It’s incredibly consistent. The closest might be Rococo… but even that one gets me singing along by the end. Every time my attention wandered from the record, some refrain or bridge or instrumental bit would hit and bring me back and have me singing along. My main criticism of the album is that sometimes it sorta blurs together and overall it's a bit long. Maybe it’s a sequencing issue? Maybe they coulda cut a couple mid-paced songs from the middle stretch of the record, kept them as b-sides? I dunno. There’s something holding it back from being a 10/10, no notes kind of album. Right now, for me… it’s probably a 9/10? But in this 5 star rating scheme… do I give it a 5 stars for 20 year old me who loved the shit out of this thing. Or do I give it 4 stars out of spite for Win Butler. Tough call. Tough call.

Solid. I enjoyed this basically from start to finish, and it was nice to unearth the singles that I heard a bunch when this album came out. I'm never really excited or inspired by Arcade Fire, though, and that's what keeps this album at a 3 for me.

Much better than I anticipated. Still, a bit lacking for a higher grade. ⭐⭐⭐1/2

It’s good but not their finest work. Standouts to me are the title track: “the suburbs” and “we used to wait”

Background music

top songs: suburbs, ready to start, sprawl II, rococo, modern man, empty room, deep blue songs get a bit samey after a while

Not for me, very forgettable.

Haven’t listened to a lot of arcade fire. I was pleasantly surprised.

An evening in a school's gym, it smells a bit like teen spirit (not the song title), and a verry everage band playing in front there ..... Well all of the listeners have survived, and would also have survived if they diddn't listen.

This is a bit of an improvement over their earlier records. The first two tracks (which I had heard before) are probably their strongest tunes. “Month of May” kinda reminds me of a Mark Lanegan song. Otherwise this still doesn’t really do it for me.

Decent

The perfect album for a teenaged boy that just learned he's allowed to have feelings

Another Arcade Fire album? Don't get me wrong, I think they're a good band, but definitely overrepresented on this list and these songs are reaching the point where they're all beginning to sound the same. Case in point is Empty Room: it sounds good but it just reminds me of other, earlier Arcade Fire songs. Giving this three stars although I'm a bit bored of Arcade Fire now, because I know if I had got this earlier in the list I would have been more interested.

Surprisingly good, I thought I tried this band before and wasn’t impressed but I liked this one

Herrefred, det her e kjedelig. Og en time langt, på toppen av det hele. Det høres ut som noen har lagt et lag av bråk oppå et album som i og for sæ kunne være interessant. Andre halvdel tok sæ noenlunde opp, det blei ryddigere og mer likanes etter min smak. Men generelt ikke så interessant med et album som tvinge dæ gjennom en halvtime med bråk før du får nokka ut av det?

The guitars go jun jun jun jun jun jun while the drums go dun dun chick dun dun dun chick dun dun dun chick. To mix it up, sometimes there's a piano that goes jonk jonk jonk jonk or an acoustic guitar that goes chuck chuck chuck chuck. And the guy sings like Springsteen with his balls in a vise. Every song.

I already am not a huge fan of the side of Indie Rock that takes more from more lush and orchestral arrangements, the stuff that sounds "big" as it were, so I knew already I wasn't gonna enjoy what Arcade Fire does and sure enough this album isn't for me, it isn't like the album's music is bad or they put no effort into it but the album just... doesn't really click with me or does much for me with it's sound, which is a shame because it's faster and tighter tracks were good, but the rest I just did not connect with.

I missed the allure of this album back when it came out and I still do.

half of this album and half of funeral can be combined to form peak arcade fire but then there's neon bible somehow in between them as the trough.

not my favorite arcade fire tbh

The coolest thing about this album was the HTML5 thing they made for "We Used to Wait" that would run a little character through the Google Map of your hometown. My hometown had not been google mapped unfortunately.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1001 ALBUMS- # 44 Sentimental Suburbs 🏡 Indie suburban sprawl, the final chapter of a remarkable opening 3 album run to Arcade Fire’s discography that would leave them destined to veer off course in the wake up mammoth critical acclaim, however it has been quite a fall from grace since. The record is a blue chip release that capped the ascent of indie rock during this time, highlighted by a surprise Grammy win for album of the year. It is grandiose in its thematic ambition, a conceptual emotional journey that certainly will test your patience, however will also reward it. The singles do not adequately reflect the true essence of what the band has to offer here, which requires dedicated listening the entire way through to fully absorb. 🎧 Classic Track: Ready to Start 🎧 Deep Cut Gem: Deep Blue 🎧 Personal Favorite: Rococo * why all the hate out there for this song?!? Conjuring conflicting feelings of nostalgia surrounding the respective suburban neighborhoods that each of us come of age within; yearning to escape it when we are young, only to find ourselves returning to the comfort of its surroundings as adult parents. We love the places we grew up, but also hate them at the same time. The album captures the jarring contrast of this discord amazing well. 🖼️ Album Artwork: As beautifully evocative as the music I would concur that the overall runtime of the tracklist could be trimmed down, making for a much more palatable and focused listening experience. These include hints at where the band would venture to expand their core sound next, with the (part II’s) of Half Light & Sprawl offering an electronic beat driven style that defined the alt-dance character texture of their future releases. Hit the Thumbs Up icon below if you enjoyed my take on the album 🏘️

Grew on me on 2nd & 3rd listen

The middle sags a lot, but this is a solid record. Win Butler's voice can start to grate on you after a while. Smart orchestration, some really fun time signatures.

I could only give this three stars because half of the songs were only two stars but half of the album consisted of four star songs. They should have cut this album in half. A stand out for me was Half Light 1 and 2

Meh. Good intentions. Musically is very boring

Was there a rivalry between Arcade Fire and The Decemberists? Maybe they’re just from the same time period, but I kind of lump them together as these two indie rock darlings unmarred by punk rock, and it was always evidence that The Decemberists were the victors in this. Arcade Fire is like chamber pop for corporate coffee house PA systems. Listening to this album is a big yawn fest that made me think “this is like the Coldplay to Wilco’s Radiohead.”

A great album and a great live show.

I can't get as enthusiastic about this album as other people seem to be. The opening track is the hook, but the rest is not so engaging.

De veras, no hay mejor música?, he notado que mis calificaciones son bajas. Mi vara está muy alta, tendré que bajarla tanto?

Bland in every way music, albums or songs can be bland.

Its a genius idea to create a concept album reflecting on life in the suburbs. I've always been drawn to music which explores the mundane reality of people's lives. I find "exceptional circumstances" are explored far more in art than the actual life that most people are living. I prefer the vinyl tracklisting with Suburban War moved to the backend and the infinite loop after We Used To Wait. The record splits itself neatly into 4 EPs which all have their own energy and flavour, progressively getting less urgent and more introspective.

This album is pretty good. Especially the first two tracks

I've been a fan of these guys since early days, so it's an easy 5 for me. I get that it's not for everyone. I think it does best on repeated listens to grasp the album-ness, rather than just as a bunch of songs, and to get some of it's hooks in. Try again. Five stars.

Dreary

audiomixing is trash and they like to mumble most of their lyrics

listening to this album feels like getting giving head to a sony music corporate executive. album is probably a 3, but ts pmo

I tried my best. Literally got Funeral two days before and now this, it still all feels the same to me. I think the only song that I really jammed with was Month of May and it's slightly different from their indie rock sound. I can tell their evolution from their first album and its much more clean as far as production, but none of these songs really did it for me.

Empty Room is a banger

The Woodlands

Lyrically and thematically maybe this is interesting but the music sounds so flat and mopey it ends up feeling Ike an endurance test.

This one hit me with a giant wave of nostalgia and an overwhelming sense of longing for the 2010s.

Vibey

I’m a terrible critic. I have no idea what to say about these albums. Another enjoyable listen that lands in the world of 3 stars. I guess I’m just stuck on what I know.

Fav: The Suburbs Least Fav: Modern Man I don’t really care much for the album but the title track brings me so much nostalgia so I’m always thankful for that

Yawn...

Decent. Very 2010 sound. Good times. Some bangers.

Detta är nog mitt mest lyssnade på album någonsin. Det finns alltid nedladdat på min Spotify. Jag har lyssnat på det varje gång jag åkte flygplan sedan jag var 16 (minst). Detta albumet har varit med mig genom fler saker än någon människa jag känner. Att tajma Sprawl II till när flygplanet bryter nedanför molnen för första gången sedan man lyfte och man ser åker, byggnader och parkeringsplatser breda ut sig nedanför är obeskrivligt. Detta fick mig också att inse att de släppte ett album förra veckan, så jag ska testa det med!

Great album

Love this album. Listened a lot to it when it came out and still do occasionally.

Hermoso álbum para escuchar de principio a fin. Si bien como canciones individuales algunas decaen bastante, como producto en su totalidad es una pieza hermosa para deleitarse. Ideal para ir en un viaje largo y escuchar hasta terminar.

What a great record! Every song is a hit.

😏

Would listen again; insidiously good; too bad Winn butler is such a PoS; low four. Faves: sprawl II, but i like this as a whole

Brilliant pair of opening songs, a bit of meh, then Sprawl II, more meh.

The month of may is a great track for the treadmill if that’s your thing. The Suburbs is the standout track here.

The 2010s were a mistake.

Rating: 1.5 Notable songs: N/A Very drab and boring. Nothing to shout home about. Very samey and nothing distinguishing. Lucky to get the .5

Powerful, introspective lyrics. Dreamy yet strong vocals. The instrumentals are so catchy too. I can imagine most of these songs being in a coming-of-age movie. Felt quite uplifting, like worship music lol. Really like this album.

I fear this album suffers from being crushed by the weight of its own gravitas. It's fine, but is trying so hard to be meaningful that it comes off as just insufferable.

This album is very important to me, so it’s impossible to rate below a 5. I do have critiques (it’s over-long, and slow at times) but the feelings it makes…all timer

A little too melodramatic for me, but some great instrumentation.

Dreary, mannered vocals, occasionally melodramatic, served over lumpy rhythms. The whole thing is derivative - little sprinkles of U2, Talking Heads, Franz Ferdinand, Wilco, and many others. Insipid. Dull.

Five songs I like very much. The others are nice like Coldplay.

It was okay, a little forgettable.

unexpected mellow rhythms

Still just okay. Consistent mid streak lately on here.

The subrubs : Amazing opener Having a 4/5 time

Arcade Fire's Heyday is such a specific moment in history. They wear so many of their contemporaries on their sleeve and yet to a generation of folks who were teens and college aged at the time of their highest cultural relevancy, they were like no other group, keying in on a moment in time and feelings that were waiting to be unleashed in the cultural zeitgeist. In many ways this is quintessential iPod music. That being said, I was like 9 when this came out, so I don't have the same nostalgia to rely on. It's a good record, all in all, from my vantage point, but doesn't blow me away

Album is really good, love some of the tracks! Going on my to listen list a lot more

Talented band. Catchy tunes. Just not my tempo.

If Peter Gabriel-era Genesis got mashed up with Bright Eyes, you'd arrive somewhere in the neighborhood of Arcade Fire. And you know, somehow this works pretty well. I've heard a fair number of the singles. I liked the first things they did pretty well ("Wake Up" from their previous album was pretty solid.) This album works as a concept and does a nice job being the indie rock version of Rush's "Subdivisions." There's enough musical flexibility here to be interesting -- and it actually sounds heartfelt. It stands up on its own. Just try to forget that the next thing they made was "Reflektor." Unexpected bangers: City with No Children, Half Light I/II, Wasted Hours

Landmark record for the band, it wounds very well produced, although I thought it could very well be shorted because through the second half i though it was dragging the final songs to an extensive hour and more of music. Great record overall.

I think I had more of a personal, psychic connection to this album at the time it came out - going through a divorce, exhausted by NYC and corporate life, and trying to get my ass to California - than I did a true appreciation of the work itself as a whole. There are a lot of songs here that don't do much of anything more, but the ones that do really do in a sublime and at times epic way. Haven't kept up with them as much as I thought I would.

Really just kind of ok

A few tracks in the middle were kind of forgettable (which ones - I've already forgotten) but it was my first time hearing the album as a whole and I enjoyed the concept. I do expect to play it again, which is more than I can say for a lot of the albums I've listened to so far. Remember when Rosie couldn't understand how a record she had never heard of could win Best Album? Good times.

Pretty good: good lyrics and I’m liking it better than Neon Bible.

I had never listened to this or heard of this band before. This was okay, and to be fair, I listened to it twice. Nothing here is a real stand-out out but I did like a couple of tunes, which made it worthwhile. "Month of May" and "Sprawl II" were favorites.

Fucking loved it!! Easy 5/5. No idea how I’d never heard of these guys before. Fave tracks were Sprawl II, Ready to Start and Suburbs. Fuck the 2008 financial crisis!!!

Meh I think first proper listen to arcade fire ever tbh n none of it was memorable x

This was…fine! Dads would love tho!

There are a few good spots here and there but ultimately I find this album too long and boring. A shame as I really fell hard for Arcade Fire with Funeral.

Would probably make a good coming-of-age movie soundtrack

Meh.

You hear human voices, but they're only echoes. This is probably, to me, a five, because of how personally impactful it feels. I remember vividly, at age 17, playing, and singing, the title track for my first girlfriend, who is also my wife. I thought to myself: I want a daughter, with you. Or, God, if it be your will, send us a son. Toute ma vie est avec toi. I grew up in the suburbs, and I think I romanticized this record such that I felt as if I grew up in -it-. As Deep Blue played at the end of Boyhood, the year after I entered that relationship, I thought, this is my life on screen. When I lost my first job, working the floor at Target Canada before its demise, I peered into the locked windows of the store and thought to myself: dead shopping malls, mountains beyond mountains, no end in sight; this is how the world ends. It helps, too, that perhaps my definitive concert experience at that age was Arcade Fire at the Scotiabank Saddledome, at which they covered Leslie Feist's I Feel It All. I would call it unimpeachable, if not for the fact that Arcade Fire, or rather Win Butler, have regrettably tarnished the legacy of this band and therefore this record (which did, somehow, win the Grammy in 2011). All that doesn't change the fact that this, and the wasted hours — wishing you were anywhere but here! — that it laments, is great, and beautiful.

too boring and over orchestrated

7/10 really liked the subject matter and the symbolism, but outside of a few songs like Modern Man and Roccoco i just didn't really care for the style. I can tell that it's good it just doesn't really appeal to me in the way other artists do

Really great, I always had this pegged as a "lesser" AF album but this is barnstorming from start to finish

The first half of the album is nearly perfect. It's simultaneously the ultimate example of the music of it's era but it also expands upon it while connecting it to pop and rock in the 80s. The second half lost me a bit until the final three songs.

I remember discovering this album and feeling that it was immediately the most relatable record I'd ever heard. As a kid who grew up in the suburbs and always wished for an escape, although to where, I have no idea, the album really resonated with me. And while I can't say I'm still an Arcade Fire fan (yeah, Win Butler really dropped the ball), I have no choice to give this album 5 stars. It's beautiful, brilliant, reserved but sprawling, and easily a standout from one of the best years in music possibly of all time. Go look up the albums that came out in 2010 and tell me that wasn't an incredible year for releases.

The memories and feelings I have tied up in these songs (listen to the deluxe!) are nearly as boundless as the suburban sprawl that serves as their inspiration.

I remember being so excited for this album to come out and then trying really hard to like it before it got relegated to the untouched realms of my cd booklet.

Entry level white hipster people anthems.

Couple good songs. Solid alt album

Absolutely love the opening track The Suburbs - gave me a lot of nostalgia. First saw Arcade Fire in a tiny Reading Tent in 2005.

Honesty up front, I listened to this album on a long drive, so the sounds of traffic and general chit chat we taking place at the same time. That is to say, it didn’t have my undivided attention. That said, I did find myself enjoying it for the most part. There were definitely points where I felt that the album was ending, and then another track would start playing. I think that this album might be more enjoyable listening to a few tracks at a time rather than the album in full, but maybe thats just me. It’s a bit miserable, but then again, that’s usually something I love in an album.

I haven't listened to this album all the way through since I was very young and it was very cathartic to do it. It evokes a completely different set of feelings in me than it did in 2011. Maybe it's because we're actually living in a suburban war now. The end of this album really made it for me. What a strong finish.

Back to the 6th grade in school

This one hits for my adolescence. Impressive how much this album has permeated into my brain over time, because I've only rarely listened it from tip to tail.

3eme album proposé par le générateur après Funeral et Neon Bible qui ne m'avaient pas marqués (notés 2/5 tous les deux). Celui-ci n'est pas mieux, mais beaucoup plus (trop) long ... Quel ennui. Et ce dès le premier morceau. Avec 15 autres à suivre. Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5 Un point positif : c'est le dernier album de ce groupe dans la liste !!!

Absolute banger of an album. Been a fan of Arcade Fire for years and this album slaps.

Ugh, fine. Somewhat catchy, I guess. I understand their album Funeral being on this list (despite my earlier expressed reservations), but this album doesn’t deserve to be.

I was a bit obsessed with this when it first came out, less enamored of it since we’ve learned more about the creepy folks in the band. Still, the songs hold up mostly.

It was just perfectly fine.

Great album, I have heard it before!

Banger

Couldnt finish it.

There's too many Arcade Fire records on this list. 3.

Personal enjoyment: 4/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5