Arcade Fire is a Canadian-based indie rock band, which had received the Grammy Award for the best album of the year. They are the first indie rock group to win in the nomination. This article will try show why so many people voted for this album the Suburbs.
Arcade Fire was strongly influenced by such British bands as Radiohead, The Cure, and U2. For a very long time, this band could not achieve commercial success. Their first two albums, Funeral and Neon Bible were not known to the general public. However, the Suburbs was quite different. Since the time of its release, it immediately won the recognition of many critics, many of whom compared it Radiohead’s Ok Computer. Such songs as Ready to Start and We Used to Wait became leaders of many charts. In part, this breakthrough can be explained by the fact that the band managed to reconcile a great variety instruments which they use, for instance, guitars, piano, violin, cellos, French horns and so forth. Combined with beautiful lyrics, their music produces a long-lasting impression on the listener.
I am not sure that this band will compared to Radiohead or Portishead in terms of its importance and influence on trip-hop style. I first learned about it when I decided to buy essays online and fast essays about the development of alternative rock. Since that time I became a fan of Arcade Fire. If you are willing to listen to something new and unconventional, you should definitely pay attention to Arcade Fire.