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Suburbs

by Arcade Fire

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Personnel: Rob Moose, Nadia Sirota, Clarice Jensen, Ben Russell, Yuki Numata, Marika Shaw, Richard Reed Parry, Owen Pallett, Caleb Burhans, Sarah Neufeld (strings). Audio Mixers: Craig Silvey; Arcade Fire. Recording information: Magic Shop, New York; Montr‚al; Petite glise, Farnham; Public Hi-Fi, Austin; Studio Frisson, Montr‚al. Photographer: Gabriel Jones. Arranger: Arcade Fire. Montreal's Arcade Fire successfully avoided the sophomore slump with 2007's apocalyptic Neon Bible. Heavier and more uncertain than their near perfect, darkly optimistic 2004 debut, the album aimed for the nosebleed section and left a red mess. Having already fled the cold comforts of suburbia on Funeral and suffered beneath the weight of the world on Neon Bible, it seems fitting that a band once so consumed with spiritual and social middle-class fury, should find peace "under the overpass in the parking lot." If nostalgia is just pain recalled, repaired, and resold, then The Suburbs is its sales manual. Inspired by brothers Win and William Butler's suburban Houston, TX upbringing, the 16-track record plays out like a long lost summer weekend, with the jaunty but melancholy Kinks/Bowie-esque title cut serving as its bookends. Meticulously paced and conservatively grand, fans looking for the instant gratification of past anthems like "Wake Up" or "Intervention" will find themselves reluctantly defending The Suburbs upon first listen, but anyone who remembers excitedly jumping into a friend's car on a sleepy Friday night armed with heartache, hope, and no agenda knows that patience is key. Multiple spins reveal a work that's as triumphant and soul-slamming as it is sentimental and mature. At its most spirited, like on "Empty Room," "Rococo," "City with No Children," "Half Light II (No Celebration)," "We Used to Wait," and the glorious R‚gine Chassagne-led "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)," the latter of which threatens to break into Blondie's "Heart of Glass" at any moment, Arcade Fire makes the suburbs feel positively electric. Quieter moments reveal a changing of the guard, as Win trades in the Springsteen-isms of Neon Bible for Neil Young on "Wasted Hours," and the ornate rage of Funeral for the simplicity of a line like "Let's go for a drive and see the town tonight/There's nothing do, but I don't mind when I'm with you," from album highlight "Suburban War." The Suburbs feels like Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused for the Y generation. It's serious without being preachy, cynical without dissolving into apathy, and whimsical enough to keep both sentiments in line, and of all of their records, it may be the one that ages so well. ~ James Christopher Monger See Details

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Chemins de Verre

by Karkwa

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Karkwa went for a stripped-down, back to basics sound on their fourth studio album, Chemins de Verre, which won the Polaris Music Prize in 2010. Some of the best cuts here are those whose folk/country core is coated in additional wrappings, like percussion, synth backdrops, and electric guitars, while others rely on a simple setup of slow acoustics, light piano, and vocals. What results is a pleasantly introspective mood, the musical equivalent of a walk in a Quebec forest on a dusky Indian summer evening. ~ Alexey Eremenko See Details

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The Chemistry of Common Life

by Fucked Up

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Fucked Up: Pink Eyes (vocals); Mr. Jo (guitar, drum, hand claps); 10,000 Marbles (guitar, tambourine, hand claps); Mustard Gas, Gulag (guitar); Jane Fair (flute); Max McCabe Locos (organ); Jonathan Adjemian (Farfisa); Justin Small, Kat' Taylor (background vocals). After the 18-minute single, "Year of the Pig," which eloquently spoke for the often voiceless Canadian sex workers, fans had no idea what to expect from Toronto's most adventurous punk band. THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE is often bruising, but as much for its quiet moments as its heavy ones. Singer Pink Eyes has retained his blustering, gruff voice, but the music surrounding him is more subtle and shaded, borrowing equally from artier acts like Sonic Youth and the blunt force of Black Flag. "Crooked Head" and "No Epiphany" arrive on waves of feedback and frothy washes of keening guitar, but sturdy tracks like "Black Albino Bones" and "Days of Last" stomp and rumble with pure vintage hardcore strength. The album's closing title track, clocking in at around seven minutes, puts it all together seamlessly. See Details

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Andorra

by Caribou

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Dan Snaith's project, Caribou, has always displayed a great reverence for the splashy opulence of '60s psychedelic-pop. If earlier albums, UP IN FLAMES and MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS, borrowed liberally from his influences--sounding much like a panoply of carefully crafted snippets from the most blissed-out moments of pop music's past 30 years--ANDORRA polishes out the rough edges to reveal actual songs. Despite the newfound emphasis on songwriting cohesion, the album revels in deep layers of textural embellishment. Mixing in sound-collages, symphonic passages, and layered vocals, the music recalls the bold pop experimentation of George Martin and Brian Wilson. The opener, "Melody Day," combines a big-beat drum pattern with a dense but melodic wall-of-sound--rippling electronics and guitar cascade around Snaith's wispy falsetto, sounding like a throwback to both '60s garage pop and '90s shoegaze. On the album's closer, "Niobe," Snaith's perfectly constructed pop utopia unravels slightly, unveiling a fractured, inchoate wash of sound--almost as if he is trying to disclose the music's own underlying illusionism. See Details

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Close to Paradise

by Patrick Watson

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Personnel: Patrick Watson (drum programming); Simon Angdt (acoustic guitar); Marjolaine Lambert, Marilou Robitaille, John Corbau (violin); Anne-Marie Leblanc, Melanie Auclair (cello); Louis Pierre Bergeron (French horn); Jean-Nicholas Trothier, Jasmin Frenetle, Genevieve Bouffard (trombone); Phillipe Legault (tuba); Jonathan Cayu (organ); Mishka Stein (electric bass); Robbie Kuster, Elisabeth Powell, Brigitte Henry, Katie Moore (background vocals). See Details

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He Poos Clouds

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