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Arcade Fire - Funeral (2004)

Twenty years ago today, on September 14, 2004, Funeral, the debut studio album by Arcade Fire, was released. Near-universal critical acclaim and ecstatic word-of-mouth combined to propel Funeral onto the Billboard Hot 100 and make the record the fastest-seller in the history of Merge Records. Nominated for a 2005 Grammy for Best Alternative Album, the album’s grandeur and dramatic power have led it to be recognized as one of the most influential records of the aughts. According to Metacritic, the album had the second most appearances on end-of-decade Top 10 lists, behind only Radiohead's Kid A.

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blood under the bridge - frightened rabbit

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Will Butler - Bethlehem (Official Video)

Will Butler on the background of “Bethlehem”:

This song partly springs from “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats: “what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” Like a lot of folks, I woke up after the election in 2016 mad and sad and scared and exhausted. This song is born of that emotion.

My bandmates Jenny Shore, Julie Shore, and Sara Dobbs sing the bridge, and it’s a corrective to my (appropriate?) freaking out—this isn’t the apocalypse. You’re misquoting Yeats. Get your fucking head on straight. History has not ruptured—this shit we’re in is contiguous with the shit we’ve been dealing with for a long, long time. But still, we sometimes do need an apocalyptic vision to make change. Even if it’s technically wrong. I dunno. It’s an ongoing conversation.

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San Luis // Gregory Alan Isakov (Evening Machines, 2018.) [x]

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How come I never saw this picture? He looks so beautiful

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Dark Indie single "Lost Meaning"

“Lost Meaning” is definitely the heaviest song off our upcoming album “Mer Bleue”. It’s a bit of a throwback stylistically to our earlier albums when we were more of a shoegaze band. We recorded pretty much the whole thing in our bassist’s basement, and SM57s were used to record everything except the cymbals. The song itself is about that claustrophobic feeling you get when you live in a large city, and for the chorus we recorded some ambient sounds of Amsterdam as a soundbed, and Amsterdam as a city perfectly represents what the lyrics are trying to say. While the song is mainly Indie/Shoegaze, the chorus draws a lot of inspiration from Ambient music, which the rest album also does.

You can listen on youtube here: https://youtu.be/KaTqnPIY0uw

Check out this song from the band Wood Lake ^^^^ They sent me this as a submission to the page.

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Poke - Frightened rabbit

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Will Butler // SURRENDER // official video

In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he’s toured the world both solo and as a member of Arcade Fire, released the Friday Night live album, recorded and released Arcade Fire’s international #1 album Everything Now, earned his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard, hosted a series of touring town halls on local issues (police contracts, prison reform, municipal paid sick leave, voting rights), and spent time raising his three children.

“My first record, Policy, was a book of short stories,” Butler says. “Generations is more of a novel—despairing, funny, a little bit epic… A big chunk of this record is asking: What’s my place in American history? What’s my place in America’s present? Both in general—as a participant, as we all are, in the shit that’s going down—but, also extremely particularly: me as Will Butler, rich person, white person, Mormon, Yankee, parent, musician of some sort, I guess. What do I do? What can I do? The record asks that question over and over, even if it’s not much for answers.”

Generations was recorded and produced by Butler in the basement of his home in Brooklyn. Tracking finished in March 2020, as New York closed down for the pandemic. Half the record was mixed in Montreal by longtime Arcade Fire engineer Mark Lawson, the other half by Brooklyn-based producer Shiftee.