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..."
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