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Arcade Fire: Great Expectations

Keith Cameron, MOJO, June 2005

With their startling debut album, American-Canadian collective the Arcade Fire have accumulated a fervent word-of-mouth following that numbers David Bowie, Beck, Bjork and David Byrne in its ranks. Keith Cameron delves into their nonconformist, self-contained world of love, death, religion and joy.

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