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Artist: Arcade Fire
Website: www.myspace.com/arcadefireofficial
Track Name: Rebellion Lies
Playback: flash
Download?: No

I was reading the web version of the New York Times (delivered fresh to my mailbox everyday) and noted that the Critics Choice column had a New Releases article (these are always good value) and apart from reviews of the new Stooges and Ry Cooder albums there was a band called “Arcade Fire” reviewed by Sia Michel, here is the opening paragraph that hooked me….

Arcade Fire is like the band that kept playing as the Titanic sank. This Montreal post-punk group specializes in ecstatic refusal, an odd mix of despair, contempt and uplifting idealism. Rejecting the rock scene, it has created its own mini-utopia, where men wear suspenders and musicians are sincere and proudly nerdy. Arcade Fire is now one of the most revered indie acts around, thanks to “Funeral”, its hypnotically raging 2004 debut.

Now with an opening like that I just had to check these guys out. Guess what… Sia’s not wrong. Open the bands myspace site and click on “Rebellion Lies” from the previous album called “Funeral”, this is seriously good stuff. The simple and direct production is wondrous. The vocals hide behind a veil so that you are forced to engage in the act of listening to find out what’s happening, the guitars are just glorious and this is where the band was in 2004 (about now if you are like me you are wondering “How the hell did I miss this band?), time to move on. Flick back to the myspace site and and now play “Keep The Car Running” from their new album “Neon Arcade”. yummy isn’t it.

Arcade Fire are from Montreal, Canada and formed around the husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne. The band fired up around 2003, In addition to mainstays guitar, drums, and bass guitar, members play piano, violin, viola, double bass, xylophone, keyboard, French horn, accordion, hurdy gurdy and harp. Busy huh?

Here is the video for Rebellion Lies.

There is a performance from the Letterman show in 2005 at

You can buy copies of all this stuff over at at www.arcadefire.com/ and thank you Sia Michel and The New York Times for the heads up.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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