I'm going to go against the general consensus here and, based upon the four listens I've given it, say it's my favourite Arcade Fire album. The problem I've had with AF in the past is the very thing everybody else seems to love them for - namely their tendency to venture into the grandiose. Funeral is a good/great album, but songs like Wake Up grate on me. Neon Bible was good too. But here, with The Suburbs, the band have seemingly adopted a more restrained, measured musical approach and I love it. It's just as impassioned as their previous albums but in a different way - a way that speaks to me a lot more personally.
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