- indie rock, chamber pop, art pop
- 48 min
- 10 tracks
- Merge Records
Funeral is the debut studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on September 14, 2004 by Merge Records. Preliminary recordings for Funeral were made during the course of a week in August 2003 at the Hotel2Tango in Montreal, Quebec, and the recording was completed later that year all in an analogue recording format.
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Character
Grave, character-led, spare and earnest.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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Metacritic 90/100
- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Blender5/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- The Guardian5/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- NME9/10
- Pitchfork9.7/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Village VoiceA−
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Tracks
- 1Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)4:48
- 2Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)3:32
- 3Une année sans lumière3:41
- 4Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)5:13
- 5Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)4:50
- 6Crown of Love4:42
- 7Wake Up5:35
- 8Haïti4:07
- 9Rebellion (Lies)5:11
- 10In the Backseat6:20
10 tracks, 48 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Arcade Fire
- Label
- Merge Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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