Distribution
Alternative Dis. Alliance
Number of Discs
1
Number of Tracks
10
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
Drums
Régine Chassagne, Arlen Thompson, Howard Bilerman
Percussion
Will Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Régine Chassagne
Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - "FUNERAL aches with elegiac intensity....FUNERAL captures the agony and even ecstasy of surviving death all around you.", "Putting the 'fun' back in FUNERAL, the debut disc from Montreal indie-pop sextet Arcade Fire exhumes instrumentation extinct since third-grade music class and sets them ablaze in anything but a macabre fashion.", "FUNERAL is a lovely, uplifting, and often pleasingly grandiose whirl through a panoply of sounds..." - Grade: B+, Ranked #2 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" - "The Montreal orch-rock sextet's debut was fervent and uplifting.", Ranked #60 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Joyful, Original and Sweet.", "A compelling debut....FUNERAL deals with grief by obsessing over new relations and future births, decorating each lost leaf in brilliant fall colors.", 4 stars out of 5 - "Echoes of Wire at their mid-'80s jackhammer funk zenith abound on 'Rebellion', while yearning cellos frame a breathtaking turn from Chassagne on 'In the Backseat'.", "Few Albums of Similar Emotional Intensity Have HAD the Same Staying Power As Funeral...", 4 stars out of 5 - "Their songs strike out at unexpected angles, bringing to mind a morbidly romantic 19th-century Radiohead.", Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "With lavishly orchestrated, emotionally stunning tales..."
Vocals
Win Butler, Régine Chassagne
Group Member
Owen Pallett, Anita Fust, Will Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Sarah Neufeld, Win Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Régine Chassagne, Arlen Thompson, Sophie Trudeau, Jessica Moss, Genevieve Heistek, Howard Bilerman, Pietro Amato, Michael Olsen
Additional Information
Earnest and Emotional Début from the Canadian Indie Rock Crew That Catapulted Them to Stardom.
Engineer
Richard Reed Parry, Mark Lawson, Howard Bilerman, Arcade Fire, Thierry Amar
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Bass
Will Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Win Butler
Guitar
Tim Kingsbury, Win Butler, Howard Bilerman
