Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’ at 20 : All Songs Considered – NPR

September 17, 2024

When Merge Records released Arcade Fire’s debut album, Funeral, on Sept. 14, 2004, nothing else sounded quite like it.With ramshackle, frenetic arrangements, thrift-store instrumentation and …

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