Arcade Fire-an introduction
Arcade Fire isn’t your typical indie rock band from Canada. That’s because the core of their group isn’t comprised of four skinny-jean wearing boy-men, but rather a husband and wife team who take their instrument playing seriously. Of course there are other group members (four men and two women, total) and they might wear skinny jeans. But I digress…
Not many groups can boast more than a couple guitars and a drum set, but Arcade Fire uses that and more: the piano, violin, cello, viola, double bass, keyboard, French horn, xylophone, glockenspiel, accordion, hurdy gurdy, mandolin and harp.
They also boast numerous awards: the Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year for “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out),” “Rebellion (Lies),” and “Wake Up;” as well as the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year for “Neon Bible.”
“Neon Bible” also won the award for Best International Album in 2008 from the Meteor Music Awards. They’ve also received PLUG Awards and Studio 8 International Music Awards.
There are no Grammy Awards for this group yet, but rest assured. They have been nominated three times (twice in 2006 and once in 2008), but nothing for the 52nd annual Grammy Awards later this month.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 9:02 am by jordan
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