Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

The Suburbs is the third album from Arcade Fire, the Montreal-based post-indie musical collective led by Win Butler, his wife Régine Chassagne, and his brother Will. Six songs from the album were released as singles, including three that charted in Canada: "Ready to Start" (#49), "We Used to Wait" (#67) and "The Suburbs" / "Month of May" (#94).

The Suburbs was a commercial and artistic success, earning the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year and the 2011 Polaris Prize, topping album charts around the world (Canada, US, Ireland, UK, Belgium, Portugal, Norway), appearing on dozens of year-end best-album lists, in CBC Radio's list of the 100 Greatest Canadian Albums and in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and garnering rave reviews:

• AllMusic and Rolling Stone gave it 4 stars out of 5
• Robert Christgau and Entertainment Weekly graded it an A-
• New Musical Express and Spin gave it a 9 our of 10
• Pitchfork rates it an 8.6 out of 10

Once, in Montreal, shortly after Charlotte and Luke moved there, we noticed assorted people walking purposefully down the street in odd costumes or exaggerated formal wear – Google later told us that they were all on their way to an Arcade Fire show.

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Track Listing

1. "The Suburbs" (Arcade Fire) – 5:15
2. "Ready to Start" (Arcade Fire) – 4:15
3. "Modern Man" (Arcade Fire) – 4:39
4. "Rococo" (Arcade Fire) – 3:56
5. "Empty Room" (Arcade Fire) – 2:51
6. "City with No Children" (Arcade Fire) – 3:11
7. "Half Light I" (Arcade Fire) – 4:13
8. "Half Light II (No Celebration)" (Arcade Fire) – 4:25
9. "Suburban War" (Arcade Fire) – 4:45
10. "Month of May" (Arcade Fire) – 3:50
11. "Wasted Hours" (Arcade Fire) – 3:20
12. "Deep Blue" (Arcade Fire) – 4:28
13. "We Used to Wait" (Arcade Fire) – 5:01
14. "Sprawl I (Flatland)" (Arcade Fire) – 2:54
15. "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" (Arcade Fire) – 5:25
16. "The Suburbs (Continued)" (Arcade Fire) – 1:27

Personnel

• Arcade Fire – Funeral (album)
• Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (album)
• Arcade Fire – Wake Up (song)