Review: CMJ - Arcade Fire
By drunk rooommate on Friday, September 16th, 2005
I’ve never heard their music before, but I was familiar with the buzz and I have to say that they were awesome. With 8 maybe 9 members in the band (depending on if the french horn was onstage) they played everything from their album Funeral (I was told by my friends that know them). The chick singer sounds like Bjork, and the set was really high energy except for one acoustic song towards the end of the set that lacked melody and was kindof masturbatory and self-indulgent. But they’re upbeat stuff is really entertaining and you can tell they’re classicaly trained cause you can hear how they orchestrate and layer. The show was sold out and hot and packed and the guy from Labrynth came on to sing the last two songs with them. It was crazy, eccentric and magnetic.
PS The guy from Labrynth is DAVID FUCKIN’ BOWIE!!! There is no need to elaborate on how amazing this was.


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September 16th, 2005 at 10:22 am
“that Labryinth guy” pshaw!
Kids these days!