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Funeral

by Arcade Fire

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All Time

of 455,330

132
2000's

of 265,621

5
2004

of 38,944

3
Genres
- Alternative Rock
  - Alternative Rock
    
    of 49,115
    
    31
  - Alternative Styles
    
    of 8,671
    
    11
  - Indie & Lo-Fi
    
    of 13,594
    
    9
  - Rock
    
    of 7,788
    
    11
  - Indie Rock
    
    of 12,318
    
    7
  - Experimental Rock
    
    of 3,229
    
    6
- Miscellaneous
  - Miscellaneous
    
    of 67,794
    
    62
  - Experimental Music
    
    of 4,200
    
    5
- Pop
  - Pop
    
    of 263,730
    
    128
  - Pop Rock
    
    of 64,982
    
    77
- Rock
  - Rock
    
    of 107,652
    
    77

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.6427 Funeral is ranked overall as 3.6427 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.5336 Funeral has an avg. critic score of 3.5336 out of 4 stars

Funeral Rank 4 Reviews

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Tiny Mix Tapes.com

"Time keeps creepin’ through the neighborhood, killing old folks, wakin’ up babies just like we knew it would..." I have my hands up in the air. I’m part of the choir and I’m ready to do what the Arcade Fire tells me to. ...more

Trouser Press

An energetic and original statement.... Essential. ...more

Playlouder

The stuff of magic. ...more

Dot Music

“Funeral” is the sort of perfectly-realised record you’d hope from a band at the top of their game. For a debut release it’s unmatched in recent years. Hearing it is to wake from a black and white slumber and to view the world in widescreen ...more

The Guardian

One of the year's best already, by a mile. ...more

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Drowned In Sound

Encompassing chamber pop melodies, angular art-rock, lavish orchestration and post-punk vocals, its sheer sonic size and ambition goes some way towards justifying the amount of gushing praise that's been heaped upon this album since its September release ...more

E! Online

An emotionally wracked masterpiece, drawing on immaculate influences like the Pixies and Talking Heads while sounding distinctly original. ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes

One of the best albums of the year, hands down. ...more

Stylus Magazine

The Arcade Fire make music the way Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark âThe Birdâ Fidrych played baseball: in an ecstatic style all their own. When a song inFuneralstarts out doing nothing for you, be patient, and eventually a devastating chord ...more

The Phantom Tollbooth

Disparate musical pieces that clamor and vie for your attention, melodies that build sweetly than come crashing down into randomized and discordant noises, Win butler�s reverberating voice spouting spoken-screamed-spoken lines with his ...more

The Daily Vault Album Reviews

Montreal's The Arcade Fire suffered through the loss of two grandparents and an aunt while recording their debut album,Funeral. In all, the band dedicated the album to the memory of nine people. Yet with a roster of 15 and its founders a husband ...more

Pitchfork

So long as we're unable or unwilling to fully recognize the healing aspect of embracing honest emotion in popular music, we will always approach the sincerity of an album like Funeral from a clinical distance. Still, that it's so easy to embrace this ...more

Pitch Fork Media

How did we get here? Ours is a generation overwhelmed by frustration, unrest, dread, and tragedy. Fear is wholly pervasive in American society, but we manage nonetheless to build our defenses in subtle ways-- we scoff at arbitrary, ...more

Village Voice (Consumer Guide)

And that's how the album goes--too fond of drama, but aware of its small place in the big world, and usually beautiful. ...more

Stylus Magazine

It’s hard to imagine many other bands talented enough to even poorly imitate this. ...more

cokemachineglow

Funeral... is a resounding success on all levels---the group clearly able to make something incredible out of the familiar, and something inexplicably moving out of one emotionally draining year. ...more

Delusions of Adequacy

One of the most engaging and thrilling pop statements of 2004. ...more

Junkmedia

Like The Fiery Furnaces' Gallowsbird Park, or Interpol's Turn On The Bright Lights, Funeral is a debut record that simply refuses to be ignored. ...more

Village Voice

Funeral is a remarkable record, hard to hear at first, then hard to stop hearing. ...more

No Ripcord

Not only are the songs uniformly excellent, they also show a mastery of the art of controlled dynamics, of tension and release, that most young bands ignore to pursue the catharsis of sustained intensity. ...more

Adrian Denning.co.uk

Heartache into beauty as the band see three relatives die within the space of a month, as well as a marriage between the bands two principal members. Forward to September 2004 to give birth to a beautiful debut LP. Title it 'Funeral' for very ...more

All Music Guide

Butler sings like Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood used to play, like a lion-tamer whose whip grows shorter with each and every lash. He can barely contain himself, and when he lets loose it's both melodic and primal, like Berlin-era Bowie or British Sea ...more

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