Funeral
by Arcade Fire
- Type: Album
- Released: 14 Sep 2004
- Label: Merge
- Country: Canada
- Length: 47:55
- Community rating: 4.36/5 from 70 ratings
Artists on this release: Howard Bilerman, Win Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Richard Reed Parry, R茅gine Chassagne, William Butler
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Arcade Fire's debut 'Funeral' channels the band's collective grief from recent family deaths into an exuberant and cathartic indie rock album that blends baroque pop arrangements with post-punk energy. The album's self-produced, layered sound features a wide array of instruments from guitars and drums to accordion, strings, and xylophone, creating dramatic, anthemic songs that explore themes of death, love, and the loss of innocence. Its passionate, sincere performance and grand, orchestral swells established the band as a significant force, influencing the sound of 2000s indie music and earning widespread critical acclaim as a landmark of its era.
Genres
Descriptors: orchestral, strings, sweeping, grand, earnest
Tracklist
- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (4:48)
- Neighborhood #2 (Laika) (3:32)
- Une Annee Sans Lumiere (3:40)
- Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) (5:12)
- Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles) (4:49)
- Crown of Love (4:42)
- Wake Up (5:35)
- Haiti (4:07)
- Rebellion (Lies) (5:10)
- In the Backseat (6:20)
Credits
- Win Butler - vocals, 6 and 12 string electric guitars, acoustic guitar, piano, synthesizer, bass
- R茅gine Chassagne - vocals, drums, synthesizer, piano, accordion, xylophone, recorders, percussion, double bass
- Richard Reed Parry - electric guitar, synthesizer, organ, piano, accordion, xylophone, percussion, double bass, engineering, recording
- Tim Kingsbury - bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Howard Bilerman - drums, guitar, engineer, recording
- William Butler - bass, xylophone, synthesizer, percussion
- Arcade Fire - production, string arrangements, engineering, recording
- Sarah Neufeld - violin, string arrangements
- Owen Pallett - violin, string arrangements
- Michael Olsen - cello
- Pietro Amato - horn
- Anita Fust - harp
- Sophie Trudeau - violin (track 7)
- Jessica Moss - violin (track 7)
- Gen Heistek - viola (track 7)
- Arlen Thompson - drums (track 7)
- Mark Lawson - engineering, recording
- Thierry Amar - recording assistance
- Ryan Morey - mastering
- Hilary Treadwell - photography, artwork
- Tracy Maurice - cover art