Arcade Fire in Books & Culture

While usually hating everything B&C has to say about music, this article on Arcade Fire is actually pretty decent. The author of the piece writes concerning their latest release Funeral,

The music speaks of, to, and for a culture in the throes of a vast meaning problem, and within the comprehensiveness of Arcade Fire's vision, any attempt to draw lines of separation between religion, entertainment, advertising, and politics will always fail to signify. The categories aren't functional. It's all ideology all the time.

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