NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Assistant Reviews Editor Laura Snapes rounds up the key albums released in the UK on Monday 10 May. You can read our reviews, and listen to some of the albums in full, below Arcade Fire - 'The Suburbs' Meditations on the meaning of home and melodi... more info

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Detroit Free Press — Its primary theme a search for something permanent in a transient world, "The Suburbs" (*** out of four stars, out Tuesday on Merge) is an ambitious statement from the highly lauded Montreal-based indie band Arcade Fire. more info

Guardian Music — The Montreal-based septet will be out to prove that a band's all-important third LP can retain the capacity to surpriseAs you might have noticed, unflagging glory seekers Arcade Fire are releasing their third album, very generously extending their lu... more info

Guardian Music — MercuryAlarm bells usually ring out when bands start writing about being in a band. Sometimes known as second (or, indeed, third) album syndrome, this affliction can strike any time after a successful release. The syndrome implies that a band's forma... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Cursed with the unenviable destiny of being forever compared with Canadian brethren and former collaborators Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade has blazed a distinct and singular path. But contrasts remain tantalizingly easy, with the blogosphere atwitter over... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: The Chum BucketM.I.A. has joined an all-star panel of judges for a Vimeo contest. [Pitchfork] Pre-Milli Vanilli lip-syncing new waver fesses up. [PreFixMag] In case you need a refresher, Jarvis Cocker and PJ Harvey are still hot. [Flav... more info

ContactMusic — ARCADE FIRE star WIN BUTLER has based the band's new music on a series of love letters he wrote to his childhood sweetheart in high school.The Canadian rockers are set... more info

Guardian Music — Lo! It is the return of Arcade FireIf you're reading Sleeve Notes today (Friday 30 July), you may or may not be excited about the new Arcade Fire album due on Monday. Either way, the return of the Canadian gloom-rockers with The Suburbs was met with ... more info

The Telegraph — For all their mainstream commercial appeal, though, you can't take the "art" out of these art-rockers. Rating: * * * * more info