Arcade Fire sound a funereal note in The Suburbs

The Canadian band's lauded third album catches the zeitgeist, hymning the sense of loss in a post-crash westWhat does any piece of music mean? Music is the most untethered and abstract of art forms. Even a song has meanings or hints of meanings that go far beyond the words, and that change every time it is performed. Meaning in music is elusive and ethereal – a mist, a suggestion. The form makes a mockery of the theories of semiologists and iconologists, who claim to decode signs and symbols.W...

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