It has met my expectations!'Sometimes I can't believe in, I'm moving past the feeling'!
Check out guardian.co.uk review (link): 'It sets the album's tone, which reins in the excesses of the past, even when the songs veer towards something similar. Empty Room has the propulsion of Neon Bible's No Cars Go, but it's leavened by Régine Chassagne's gorgeous, airy vocal. For the most part, The Suburbs' pleasures are subtle ones – the sudden lurch in rhythm that disrupts the drivetime rock dynamics of Modern Man, the delicate drift of Half Light I. The most surprising among them must be the discovery of Arcade Fire's sense of humour, hitherto unnoticed, possibly because it was hitherto nonexistent. If the album's wearying length (at over an hour, it could happily lose three or four tracks, starting with the leaden Half Light II) and song titles packed with brackets and roman numerals still suggest a band inclined to take itself too seriously, there's something charming about the way an album about growing up in the suburban 80s gradually starts to resemble a chart rundown from 1983: the taut, post-new wave rock track (We Used to Wait), the mournful social-realist ballad (The Sprawl I), the glittering synth-pop masterpiece (the glorious Sprawl II). You wait expectantly for them go the whole nostalgic hog and hit you with a novelty dance track along the lines of Agadoo, but, alas they don't: instead it ends with a reprise of the title track, and a satisfying sense of having accomplished what they set out to achieve.'
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