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Carlucci is now back in a triumphant indie band, the Arcade Fire who, with their album "The Suburbs" is the first in the rankings that count: British and American. Italy, sorry to say, is almost completely foreign to the sensibility of rock across the Alps because of the dusty Marxist ears of many of his critics. This is true not only in music but also the university where indie bands often come through the network. The online magazine
"OndaRock," for example, gives the last of the Canadian group working just enough to relegate "The Suburbs" to the pop genre that does not ever talk to some of masterpieces. Conversely, English and authoritative "Q: Magazine" recognizes "The Suburbs" already as a classic that will remain so for years to come and that will go in history, the Arcade Fire of rock.
But the anthropologist takes care of the group of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne? Yes, because the anthropologist listening to music, it moves to the sound that is indie-rock, pop, choral, post-wave, mainstream voices and rhythms of the culture in which he lives and loves. His model is just the music that here in this album lasts over an hour because of "concept album" is about. You know, those "concept album" and that no one realizes that, instead, in the past have made the rock.
In The Suburbs "citations appear sixties as the Beatles and Phil Spector. But there is also the circular gait of "Rococo, Baroque piece as some songs from "Neon Bible", the group's second album. And then we have the melody wave of "City with no children" and "Empty room" that has a nice arraggiamento strings. Here is Queen to lead the dance-punk rock to symphonic dimensions. "Suburbarn war" is, instead, an extraordinary moment of music made of epoxy retained and sore. We find again, continuing the hearing, the two "Half Light" that stand out because the first is the ethereal second is buzzing. In the latter there is a synth-pop of New Order and Blondie pop with a sophistication that is not loved in Italy because they are not "proletarian" or even gay. "Sprawl II is likened by some critics ours, for example, to resize it, the music of Abba, which while great, in my opinion has nothing to do at all with this track. It continues with the emotional notes, "We use to wait" which is also one of the finest singles of the year.
With the first, extraordinary called "Funeral" Arcade Fire gave voice to dreams and nightmares in the neighborhood (only three of its chapters titled "Neighborhood"), with the next "Neon Bibble" (2007) their explosive charge if it became almost messianic eschatology.
In The Suburbs "back, instead, the world of boys and girls, as in" Funeral ". But now their shattered lives take place in the outskirts of the city chipped.
Throughout the cd is mixed with melancholy elegy. The music is beautiful. Certainly in some songs there is the influence of early U2 and Springsteen first though the Arcade Fire playing the Arcade Fire.
The suburbs which is discussed in "The Suburbs" Americans are different from those in Europe are a world of expectations, boredom, and anger of love longed for.
The Canadian band has seven members in the chorus of their visions continue to create with "The Suburbs" an implosion of sounds, live and on disk. It 's the reason why the growth of many of their songs are the most important moments of the full and complete. In other words, the indefinite re-conquest of souls music and emotions.
