Pick of 2005: Rock Music

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You must know you've done something right when David Bowie proclaims himself your biggest fan. The Arcade Fire, a Canadian seven-piece, gained their coveted patron with the release of this, their debut album, an extraordinarily mature record which, like [Sufjan Stevens]'s Illinoise, is novelistic in its lyrical scope and manages the difficult feat of sounding profound but not pretentious.

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Pick of 2005: Rock Music

pick of 2005: rock music

best albums

Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise (Rough Trade)

Imagine an album 22 tracks long and 74 minutes in duration, which divines the lyrical spirits of Carl Sandburg and S...

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