Funeral

Arcade Fire, “Funeral” (Merge, 2004)
I know, this is seen as kind of old hat, but I had a copy lying around, so here it is. The bottom line is, this is a good record now that all the hype-dust has cleared. Velvets-via-REM indie-pop strum naturalized into a warm, seamless groove (powered by a strong drummer) that almost seems like a “roots-rock” in its way, the VU being the “roots” here. And it has an empty-community-theater-in-a-snowstorm grandeur and pathos that’s all its own.
Try 2,4, 7
4/7/19