Arcade Fire - Ready to Start from Merge Records on Vimeo.
I don't listen to Arcade Fire to feel hopeless. I have Xasthur for that. I listen to Arcade Fire to pick myself up, dust myself off and get back into the ring. Yet, there was a futility that ran throughout Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" that undercut nearly every song on the album, and brought them closer to desperation than ever before. One of the album's many highlights "Ready To Start" did contain some genuine optimism though. The track found Win Butler and the band creating the kind of rousing soundtrack moment that made Arcade Fire so big in the first place. When Win sings "if the businessmen drink my blood like the kids in art school said they would, then I guess I'll just begin again," it's one of the album's few anthematic moments. "Ready To Start" had me wishing even more so that Win didn't sound like he had entirely lost his will to fight over the rest of the sprawl of "The Suburbs."
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