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Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

Pete Paphides, The Times, 31 July 2010

"I WOULD LIKE to think that in ten years' time, if people were to greet a new Arcade Fire album with that sort of build-up, we would have long since called it a day." So said the group's frontman Win Butler three years ago, in response to a contention from his drummer that Sylvester Stallone's revival of the Rocky franchise was "not as bad as you might expect".

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