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Mikael Wood. Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook. Even though indie fans aren't so caught up in the "our music is better than mainstream music" trope that dominated when Top 40 was a viable format or before the internet fundamentally changed the mechanisms by which music is distributed, Arcade Fire winning the Album of the Year award still has a light, perfumed sense of validation about it.
It certainly helps that the band is a critical darling, has its own lifetime achievement award claim dating back to 's Funeral -- on a number of indie rock geeks' short lists for last decade's Album of the Decade -- and that this album examines the suburban culture that so many indie fans fled on their way to declaring indiedom.
For those alienated by the Arcade Fire's win, it strangely feels like last year's public outcry about Obamacare. Despite many Americans supporting the individual planks that made up the Obama health plan, the whole package was met with a wariness that this was somehow too big and too Canadian -- not entirely unlike an eight-piece, Montreal-based band who incorporate mandolins and violins into their mix.
Certainly, there's a distrust around the Grammy Awards evinced by Stoute's open letter, and it's a worry rooted in whether a winning act is deserving of the award. When the Grammy folks get it wrong, as they certainly did here, it's a wrong of an epic proportion, less about a cavalier surprise and more about the alternate reality in which Grammy voters seemingly live. Stoute is correct in noting hip-hop certainly deserves its due, and I think this happens at the Grammys again as soon as next year.
Arcade Fire -- despite their mandolins, their hurdy-gurdys, their accordions, the whiff of free health care about them -- are deserving winners, in a year where deserving winners weren't all that easy to find.
Austin-based Writer exploring the places in which pop culture and politics intersect. News U. Fifteen years ago this week, on September 14 , it was Arcade Fire wot did it, in Urban Outfitters, with the accordion. Changed or killed? Truth is, indie barely made it out of Britpop in one piece.
When it emerged from the 90s, like a shellshocked war vet, it barely knew what it was anymore. An ethos? A sound? Come the millennium, garage rock — The Strokes, The White Stripes and so on — gave it a bump and bought it a second-hand leather jacket.
Then a band from Montreal, Canada, released their debut album. His wife, Regine Chassagne, was in the band. His younger brother Will too. Loads of their mates. The record entered a world no longer on fire, but dolefully combing the ashes for sense and reason. Inquests were in vogue. Into the suspicious death of weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly the previous July.
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