Released August 2, 2010
Recorded 2008–10
Genre
Indie rock art rock baroque pop
Length 63:55
Label
Merge City Slang Mercury
Producer
Arcade Fire Markus Dravs
The Suburbs
The Suburbs is the third studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on August 2, 2010. Coinciding with its announcement, the band released a limited edition 12-inch single containing the title track and “Month of May”. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Irish Albums Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200 chart, and the Canadian Albums Chart. It won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards, Best International Album at the 2011 BRIT Awards, Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards, and the 2011 Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album. Two weeks after winning Grammy’s Album of the Year, the album jumped from No. 52 to No. 12 on the Billboard 200, the album’s highest ranking since August 2010.
Arcade Fire released a deluxe edition CD/DVD of The Suburbs on June 27, 2011 (everywhere except the U.S. and Canada). The American and Canadian versions were released on August 2, 2011, to coincide with the original album’s anniversary. The new version included two brand new tracks recorded during The Suburbs album sessions (“Culture War” and “Speaking in Tongues”, the latter featuring David Byrne), an extended version of album track “Wasted Hours”, Spike Jonze’s short film, Scenes from the Suburbs, and an 80-page booklet as well as other exclusive content.
Track listing
All tracks written by Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry, Jeremy Gara, Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne and Tim Kingsbury[citation needed].
1. “The Suburbs” 5:15
2. “Ready to Start” 4:15
3. “Modern Man” 4:39
4. “Rococo” 3:56
5. “Empty Room” 2:51
6. “City with No Children” 3:11
7. “Half Light I” 4:13
8. “Half Light II (No Celebration)” 4:25
9. “Suburban War” 4:45
10. “Month of May” 3:50
11. “Wasted Hours” 3:20
12. “Deep Blue” 4:28
13. “We Used to Wait” 5:01
14. “Sprawl I (Flatland)” 2:54
15. “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” 5:25
16. “The Suburbs (Continued)” 1:27
Personnel
Arcade Fire
Will Butler
Win Butler
Régine Chassagne
Jeremy Gara
Tim Kingsbury
Sarah Neufeld
Richard Reed Parry
Additional musicians
Strings: Sarah Neufeld, Owen Pallett, Richard Reed Parry and Marika Anthony Shaw
Additional strings: Clarice Jensen, Nadia Sirota, Yuki Numata, Caleb Burhans, Ben Russell and Rob Moose
Colin Stetson – saxophones (tracks 9, 13 & 15)
Pietro Amato – French horn (tracks 13 & 15)
Technical
Arcade Fire – (mixing, production, arrangement)
Owen Pallett – string arrangements
Markus Dravs – co-production
Mark Lawson – recording
Craig Silvey – mixing
Nick Launay – additional mixing (tracks 2, 4 & 15)
Marcus Paquin, Don Murnaghan and Noah Goldstein – additional recording
Brian Thorn – assistant (Magic Shop)
Brad Bell – assistant (Public Hi-Fi)
Adam Greenspan – assistant
Caroline Robert – artwork design
Vincent Morisset – art direction
Gabriel Jones – photography (assisted by Joey Matthews & Stephane Fiore)
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