September 25, 2007
Concert Review: The Arcade Fire
The Arcade Fire came through Mountain View's Shoreline Amphitheatre last Friday. We have the pictures to prove this. A suddenly-rather-popular independent rock band, it's surprising that this little-group-that-could is suddenly playing arena-size venues.
And what does The Arcade Fire sound like?
Figure that the group's music is like some sort of 10-person raucously ad-hoc mix-up of Neutral Milk Hotel, Slipknot, Springsteen's E Street Band, and The Coen Bros' Hudsucker Proxy shrieking songs of broken/renewed faith beneath their landlord's window with accordians, guitars, violins, and so many drums in the slow-falling Montreal snow at an inappropriate hour.
Got that? No? Then click here to listen to their work.
When the band cut into their last song of the evening, the anthemic Wake Up and the whole of the crowd filled the inside of that tent with their voices, the closest thing we could think of was church – back when we thought it still worked. There was that time-worn familiar feeling: voices rising together in the faith that a better day is possible as long as we fight for it.
The Arcade Fire want the best for you and your community, and they're trying as hard as they can.
* Photo courtesy of the astute Flickr user cygnoir.
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huh? Slipknot? is that a joke?
slipknot eh? you're fired christopher rogers for making poor analogies.
I was going to ask how LCD Soundsytem was but that review was so awful just never mind...
Re: MikeG =
Yes, Slipknot.
Think about it... multi-instrumentalists, a unified outfit template, a healthy sense of physical danger to their own selves during their performance, copious tackling of fellow band members mid-song.
Here's the part that really pushed me into making that refer to Slipknot: during Friday's show, one of the band's multi-instrumental guys was on his knees wacking a huge drum as hard as he could in tempo with the song. His drumstick broke. Its tip arced into the audience. Undaunted, and without hesitation, he began to beat the drum with his fists in time to the music. He hit the drum with such force and conviction that there is no way he could not have drawn blood.
So, yes; Slipknot.
Re: Guest #2 =
Thank you!
Re: SanFranCitizen =
LCD Soundsystem was fantastic, they/he really made a fan out of me on that day. The music made folks' hips swivel heedlessly. Great stuff.
And you're needlessly unkind. Thanks! ;)