Arcade Fire
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Arcade Fire
“Wake Up,” a track from, Funeral, the debut full-length by Montreal’s Arcade Fire, builds from a midtempo strum into a “You Can’t Hurry Love” gallop, which singer Win Butler interrupts with a yell: “You better look out below!” Somehow, none of this hits the ear as over-emotional. Throughout Funeral, the band augments its five-piece line-up with string sections, weaving a near-cinematic, folk-influenced chamber pop that slots in somewhere between Belle and Sebastian’s delicacy and the robust classicism of ‘80s New Zealand bands such as the Chills and…
