News: Arcade Fire's Funeral Celebrates 10th Birthday
By Abbie Doyle, Reviews Editor
This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the release of Arcade Fire’s debut album, Funeral. Released to immediate, widespread critical acclaim on Sept. 14, 2004, the record smashed down the walls separating orchestral string arrangements and rock.
Funeral comfortably sits at spot number six on Rolling Stone’s “100 Best Albums of the 2000s” list and helped call more attention to a little genre known as “indie rock,”as well as being hugely influential in the creation of countless modern bands.
The album revolutionized the combination of classical instruments with rock and roll, simultaneously containing agonizingly relatable lyrics and emotions that have gripped us all at one point or another. Arcade Fire’s talent has been apparent since the release of its first EP, but it was Funeral that catapulted the band into the spotlight it enjoys today.
It’s a record that resonates deeply with many people, including a Brooklyn graffiti artist who commemorated the album with a mural (see above), proving it was no small moment when people first heard “And if the snow buries my / My neighborhood...”
