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''The Suburbs'' is the third
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by Canadian
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band
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, released on August 3, 2010. Coinciding with its announcement, the band released a limited edition
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containing the title track and "Month of May".“Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs to be released August 3”
. Nationalpost.com. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
“Hear Two New Arcade Fire Songs and an Interview”
. NPR's All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen talked to Arcade Fire's Win and Will Butler about the record, while also offering a special preview of the songs “Month of May” and “The Suburbs.” Retrieved May 27, 2010.
The album debuted at No. 1 on the
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, the
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, the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, and the
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. It won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards, Best International Album at the 2011 BRIT Awards, Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards, and the 2011
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for best Canadian album. Two weeks after winning Grammy's Album of the Year, the album jumped from No. 52 to No. 12 on the ''Billboard'' 200, the album's highest ranking since August 2010. Arcade Fire released a deluxe edition CD/DVD of ''The Suburbs'' on June 27, 2011 (everywhere except the U.S. and Canada). The American and Canadian versions were released on August 2, 2011, to coincide with the original album's anniversary. The new version included two brand new tracks recorded during ''The Suburbs'' album sessions ("Culture War" and "Speaking in Tongues", the latter featuring
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), an extended version of album track "Wasted Hours",
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's short film, ''Scenes from the Suburbs'', and an 80-page booklet as well as other exclusive content.


Background

The album's lyrical content is inspired by band members Win and William Butler's upbringing in
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, a suburb of
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. According to Win Butler, the album "is neither a love letter to, nor an indictment of, the suburbs – it's a letter ''from'' the suburbs". The album was recorded in Win Butler and Régine Chassagne's residence in
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, with some parts being recorded at the band's studio in
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and in New York City. Win Butler describes the overall sound of ''The Suburbs'' as "a mix of
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and
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", stating that he wanted the album to sound like "the bands that I heard when I was very young, and wondered what those crazy noises were". It was released by
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in North America and by
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in the United Kingdom. The band pressed each completed song to a 12″
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, then recorded it back for the
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of the album. There are eight alternative covers for the CD version of the album.


Promotion

A video for "Ready to Start" was released on August 20, 2010, directed by Charlie Lightning and filmed at the band's July 7, 2010 concert at the Hackney Empire in London. On August 30, 2010, an interactive video was released for "We Used to Wait" at http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com, written and directed by Chris Milk, designed in conjunction with
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, which makes use of
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and
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, and has been featured in ''
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''s "Short List". Another music video, for the title track "The Suburbs", was released on November 18, 2010, directed by
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. The video, filmed in
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, follows a group of teenagers living in the suburbs, and features cameos by Win Butler and Sarah Neufeld as police officers. The music video is composed of excerpts from Jonze's short film, ''Scenes from the Suburbs'', which debuted at the
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, and has a running time of 30 minutes. ''Scenes from the Suburbs'' screened at the
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2011 and saw its online premiere on
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on June 27, 2011. Writing for the Canadian Press, Nick Patch called the film "a sci-fi puzzler that seems to blend the paranoia of
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films with the nostalgia of classic
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flicks".


Critical reception

''The Suburbs'' received acclaim from
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. At
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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an
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score of 87 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 43 reviews. Writing for
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, Mike Diver described the album as the band's "most thrillingly engrossing chapter yet; a complex, captivating work that, several cycles down the line, retains the magic and mystery of that first tentative encounter" and stated that "you could call it their ''
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''." Several reviewers compared ''The Suburbs'' favourably to Arcade Fire's earlier work. Ian Cohen of ''
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'' called it "a satisfying return to form—proof that Arcade Fire can still make grand statements without sounding like they're carrying the weight of the world". Noel Murray of ''
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'' described the album as being "like one long sequel" to the band's earlier single " No Cars Go". '' Q'' wrote that the band "may well have delivered their masterpiece." David Marchese, writing in ''
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'', wrote of the album: "Radiant with apocalyptic tension and grasping to sustain real bonds, textends hungrily outward, recalling the dystopic miasma of
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's sci-fi novels and
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's guitar odysseys. Desperate to elude its own corrosive dread, it keeps moving, asking, looking, and making the promise that hope isn't just another spiritual cul-de-sac." ''
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''s reviewer Emily Mackay compared ''The Suburbs'' to
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's '' Automatic for the People'' in the sense of it being "an album that combines mass accessibility with much greater ambition. Pretty much perfect, in other words – and despite their best efforts, listening to it feels just like coming home." '' Uncut'' designated the album as their "Album of the Month"; in a 4-star review for the magazine, Alastair McKay called it "a surprising record, swapping the spit and fire of ''Funeral'' for a sense of mature playfulness", and concluding that " texplores the badlands between safety and boredom. It's nostalgic, with a sense of future dread. There is pain and pleasure, loss and hope. It feels like the anesthetic is wearing off." ''
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'' listed the album as their No. 1 Pop & Rock Album of 2010. Writer Andrea Warner summarized it as "a perfect actualization of the suburbs as metaphor for the classic North American dream: a smoothly perfect veneer covering up the lush complexity of motivation. It's not just metaphor, but goes a step further to exemplify the quintessential Arcade Fire sound ― a controlled frenzy, pushing and reaching for something more." The album was also included in the 2011 edition of the book ''
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''.


Accolades

On June 16, 2011, the album was named as a long-listed nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize."2011 Polaris Music Prize Long List announced"
. aux.tv, June 16, 2011.
On July 6, ''The Suburbs'' was awarded a spot on the shortlist, making it one of ten possible candidates to win $30,000 and the recognition as the best Canadian album of the year as voted by jury of Canadian journalists and broadcasters. On September 19, 2011, it won the Polaris Music Prize. The album won both Album of the Year at the
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, as well as the Album of the Year at the 53rd Grammy Awards, and earned a nomination for
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, won International Album at the 2011 BRIT Awards and was also on numerous best-albums-of-the-year lists: *#1 –
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's Top 50 albums of the year *#1 – ''Clash'' Magazine's Top 40 Albums of 2010 *#1 – ''
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''s Top 20 Albums of 2010 *#1 – ''Q'' Magazine's Top 50 Albums of 2010 *#1 –
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Listeners' Top 10 Albums *#2 – ''Billboard''s Top 10 Albums of 2010 *#2 – ''Magnet''s Top 20 Albums of 2010 *#2 – ''
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''s Top 75 Albums of 2010 *#2 – '' Relevant Magazine''s Top 10 Albums of 2010 *#2 –
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's Top 50 Albums of 2010 *#2 – ''Time''s Top 10 Albums of 2010 *#2 – ''Under the Radar''s Top 50 Albums of 2010 *#3 – ''Spin''s 40 Best Albums of 2010 *#4 –
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's 20 Best Albums of 2010 *#4 – ''
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''s 30 Best Albums of 2010 *#7 – ''Paste'' Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2010 *#9 – ''
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''s Top 50 Albums of 2010 *#11 – Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year *#11 –
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's Top 50 Albums of 2010 *#21 – Rough Trade Shops's Albums of the Year (UK) *#23 –
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's 2010 Dean's List *''Glide Magazines Top 20 Albums of 2010 *
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's 50 Favorite Albums of 2010 The single “Ready to Start” was nominated for the
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.


Track listing

Notes *"Suburban War" is the second to last track on the vinyl version of the album. *"We Used to Wait" finishes on an infinite loop at the end of Side 3 of the vinyl version. *In the Deluxe Edition, "Wasted Hours" is retitled as "Wasted Hours (A Life That We Can Live)" and features an extended ending. The track length goes to 4:26. *Initial copies of the album sold by selected independent music stores came with an exclusive 7" single of "Ready to Start" with a postcard.


Personnel

Arcade Fire *
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*
Win Butler Edwin Farnham Butler III (born April 14, 1980) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. He co-founded the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire with Josh Deu and his wife Régine Chassagne. Early l ...
* Régine Chassagne * Jeremy Gara * Tim Kingsbury *
Sarah Neufeld Sarah Neufeld (born August 27, 1979) is a Canadian violinist who is known for her work with indie rock band Arcade Fire, with whom she is a former core member and currently a touring member. She has contributed to each of the band's studio al ...
*
Richard Reed Parry Richard Reed Parry (born October 4, 1977) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, best known as a core member of the Grammy Award-winning indie rock band Arcade Fire, where he plays a wide variety of instruments, often switchin ...
Additional musicians *Strings: Sarah Neufeld,
Owen Pallett Michael James Owen Pallett-Plowright (born September 7, 1979), known professionally as Owen Pallett, is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music P ...
, Richard Reed Parry and Marika Anthony Shaw *Additional strings: Clarice Jensen, Nadia Sirota, Yuki Numata, Caleb Burhans, Ben Russell and Rob Moose * Colin Stetson – saxophones (tracks 9, 13 & 15) * Pietro Amato – French horn (tracks 13 & 15) Technical *Arcade Fire – (mixing, production, arrangement) *
Owen Pallett Michael James Owen Pallett-Plowright (born September 7, 1979), known professionally as Owen Pallett, is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music P ...
– string arrangements *
Markus Dravs Markus Dravs is a British music producer, songwriter, programmer, engineer and mixer. His credits include Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Wolf Alice, Björk, Brian Eno, Sheep on Drugs, Merz, Mumford & Sons, Hozier, Florence + the Machine, The Maccabe ...
– co-production *Mark Lawson – recording *Craig Silvey – mixing *
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– additional mixing (tracks 2, 4 & 15) * Marcus Paquin, Don Murnaghan and
Noah Goldstein Noah Goldstein is an American record producer, film composer, and audio engineer. He is known for his work with Kanye West, having engineered his albums ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'' (2010), ''Yeezus'' (2013) and ''The Life of Pablo'' (20 ...
– additional recording *Brian Thorn – assistant ( Magic Shop) *Brad Bell – assistant (Public Hi-Fi) *Adam Greenspan – assistant *Caroline Robert – artwork design *
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– art direction *Gabriel Jones – photography (assisted by Joey Matthews & Stephane Fiore)


Charts


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Certifications and sales


See also

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References


External links


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