Friday, September 29, 2006

Damn Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire's first album, Funeral, has been a critical hit. Pitchfork Media gave it a 9.7 rating and named it the album of the year. They were featured on the cover of the Canadian Time Magazine and "hailed as the band that put Canadian music on the world map". I just recently bought the album and am actually a big fan of it. However, it was such a hit that it eventually became its label, Merge Records', biggest selling album to date. The album it replaced? Neutral Milk Hotel's In an Aeroplane Over the Sea. Damn them indeed!

By the way, who knew that Canada had its own version of Time Magazine?

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