Review - Funeral

Before I start I want to make an appeal.

If you're posting a My Chemical Romance video on Youtube please turn comments off, there's only so many times I can read "OMG MCR SUK FAG GAY EMO!!!!!!1" in one day.

Album Info Box
Title: Funeral
Artist: Arcade Fire
Label: Rough Trade (now on Merge Records)
Members: Win Butler, Regine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld, Jeremy Gara, Owen Pallett

Go.

Buy.

Listen.

Love.

I hate to be this cryptic and non-descriptive but by the time you reach Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) and hear Win Butler screaming 'WITH THE LIGHTS OUT!!' you have realised it.

You just bought something special. In all my music life I have never heard anything so powerful, beautiful, refined and innovative. Zane Lowe says it may be the greatest record released in his lifetime. I think it may even go beyond my lifetime, that's a good 10-20 extra years.

Its 10 songs, 47 minutes and it may not be sexy or cool or headbanging material but here's what it is.

Unbelievably good. Maybe even perfect. The score certainly is.

In One Line
An amazingly diverse and heart warming album, better than any debut should be.

Score
Ten (10)