ARCADE FIRE - Funeral WALTER EGAN - The Observer

- The Observer

The Early Years release their new album

as big in Lagos or Harare as he was in London or New York

Gary Hughes’ self-titled solo debut

ARCADE FIRE - Funeral WALTER EGAN - The ObserverLP Vinyl The Arcade Fire coalesced in Montreal, Quebec, and recorded their debut album Funeral during one of that citys arduous winters. It is a truly eccentric rock record: bizarre at turns and recognizable elsewhere, equally beautiful and harrowing, theatrical and sincere. At times, the albums total disregard of formula and expectation is positively thrilling. its like a higher pitched David Byrne fronting Echo and the Bunnymen, the first two Roxy