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Arcade Fire, LondonAlthough this was the year they achieved the benchmarks of the truly big – two nights at Madison Square Garden, for example – 2010 was also the year in which Arcade Fire tried to keep things smaller. The Suburbs, the band's third album, saw them try to reconnect to the experiences of growing up and, really, it wasn't before time. After the pomp of their second album, Neon Bible, the band were starting to seem easy to be awed by, but more difficult to love. In part, then, j...

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