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Arcade Fire return with their sixth album
New album: The Canadian alt-rockers return with their sixth LP - one filled with almost messianic singalong stadium anthems and also quieter intimacy, perhaps not quite at the peak of their first three, but still a return to past form
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Album review: Refreshing, full-bodied vocal harmonies and almost messianic, upbeat lyrics make this new indie pop album by the West Country quartet a breath of positivity that also echoes the energy of Arcade Fire and The Polyphonic Spree
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House Music is Bell Orchestre’s first album in a decade
Album review: A wondrously absorbing and beautiful first release in a decade by the Montreal-based group of musicians with 10 tracks flow seamlessly into each other via coalescing classical and electronic instrumentation.
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No swan song ... St Vincent
St Vincent to Queens of the Stone Age, Marika Hackman to Laura Marling, Fleet Foxes to the Mountain Goats, this second part of our readers' favourite albums throws up lots of questions over the self and others
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Arcade Fire
This week's selection highlights the album of release by Arcade Fire, OMD's return to their early electronica sound, Michael Chapman channelling early Bowie and music from the game Everything
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Arcade Fire have a new album on the horizon
This week's fabulous selection of new releases includes a single heralding Arcade Fire new album, Sufjan Stevens collaborates on a planetary suite, plus Chuck Berry's farewell, Phoenix and Cigarettes After Sex
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