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Funeral is a dramatic epic. It's an epic that paints the image of a neighborhood and the interconnectedness of its people. It's about the way people influence us and the way people together construct this whole. Funeral mas as well be like any epic from Homer to Ovid, from Gilgamesh to the Divine Comedy. Arcade Fire begin their discography with an epic on relationships, life and humanity. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) is the alchemy of love in the body and mind of the main character. It's the ... read more

Paradise feels like a counterpart to Born To Die, serving as an extension of its concept of the "american dream". Which is surprising, since it acts somewhat as an oxymoron. We come from the "life doesn't matter, what does matter is the inevitability of death" of Born To Die to the "Gods & Monsters" of Paradise. Is this a response to the former bleakness? Or are they two sides of the same coin and the ways in which one can view life? Because of this antagonism, ... read more

Born To Die is an album that I can't listen and not think about my teen years. I used to listen to these songs a whole lot, and then I decided I didn't want to listen to Lana in general so I could get away from my old self and into the new one, since I had a really bad image of who I was while I listened to her. I'm coming back to her now, years later, leaving that image in the past. Born To Die feels like north american culture, which I'm not really fond of. But the music in here kind of makes ... read more

An album on the betrayal of youth. Not of our betrayal on youth, but of youth on us. This album feels like a sour or spicy candy. I remember when I ate all these candy in my teen years, like those spicy candy with sour coated sugar (the pepper ones?). I don't know how to explain, but the album feels like eating those candy. It's the electric-type of emotion, the bittersweet ecstasy, that energy that flows like a storm in our teen selves. It's about that time where you got all these ups and ... read more