Holy Fuck

I like Funeral because it maintains the good atmospheric aspects of indie rock while spicing up the often boring songwriting the genre has with colorful instrumentation.

>>75167214
This album is a spectacular epic

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thanks for your opinion

>>75167214
It is a product of its time. Sadly.

>>75167214
It's funny because that describes Neon Bible and The Suburbs but Funeral is still fresh as hell

>>75167214

I'd like to say that Andrew Bird's Mysterious Production of Eggs is actually the best indie rock album from that period, but probably safe to assume that with that reaction to Funeral you won't like that one either

>>75167214
I like the first track a lot, but I'll agree to an extent. The gimmick of just having a fuck ton of different instruments, without much actual creativity going into how they play off and with each other, was sort of novel for indie at the time I think. But Arcade Fire are not so special, especially in retrospect.

I agree with you. shitty album, terrible band

>>75167391
t. salty

>>75167627
What's more orchestral indie rock then?

>>75167947
I don't know if I have a satisfying answer, but Joanna Newsom uses in better, some of the better Grizzly Bear albums have an element of orchestration, Dirty Projectors have some good stuff too. It's not just about orchestral as it is about being creative with your instrumentation as a whole, be it with electronics, percussion, orchestras, choirs, etc. The thing about AF is that they have so much stuff at their disposal, but they often just use it for wall-of-sound as opposed to counterpoint and dynamics and textures.