>Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
“The Suburbs” is the title track from Arcade Fire’s third studio album of the same name. The release is only a few days away and I am giddy with excitement. “The Suburbs” is a breezy piano ballad with front man Win Butler reminiscing on the teenage years of the cul-de-sac.
He looks back at the time with fascination and longing: “In my dreams we’re still screaming/Running through the yard/And all the walls that they built in the 70’s fall.” Butler looks at the rows of houses not as homes, but as a war zone. But now that he has grown up, he is realizing that he wants a daughter and wants to show her beauty in the world, before the world does its damage.
9.0 out of 10
The Suburbs LP drops Tuesday, August 3rd
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