Arcade Fire discover beauty within the darkness of The Suburbs

Canada's finest have produced a hymn to the middle-class motherland, suffused with a Springsteen-esque need to escapePop has always loved a visit to the suburbs, whether in the sleazy undertow of Suede's eponymous debut album or the high-street hellraisers of Pet Shops Boys' Suburbia.It's fitting, then, that Arcade Fire should share this fascination so much as to name their third album The Suburbs. Listening to the jangly, back-room piano-bar intro of the title track, the need to escape is immed...

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