The Arcade Fire's latest album THE SUBURBS has been one of the most anticipated albums of 2k10. Not really because any1 thought it would sound anything different than anything they've ever made, but mainly just to see how indie rock anthem core 'held up' after the AnCo era and the Chillwave Era. It seems like popular music review site Pitchfork Media gave them a 'lukewarm' 8.6, a score that is often reserved for a 1st album buzzband who has 'massive potential' to generate more memes over the next 2 years.

Anyways, the review compares the band to 'Springsteen':

But the album actually plays out more like Bruce Springsteen's The River, a generously paced collection of meditations on familial responsibility, private disappointments, and fleeting youth, much of which takes place in moving vehicles.

Then they say the album is a 'hipster bashing' album, encouraging ppls 2 find 'a new sincerity':

On the deceptively chipper chamber pop of "Rococo", Win Butler borders on patronizing, evoking Nirvana's "In Bloom" and using the title word as a sword to skewer an easy target: the hipster more concerned with following trends than locating a genuine understanding in the world around him.

Then it gets kinda vulnerable, and tells us that we all might be trapped in suburbia one day:

The bulk of The Suburbs focuses on this quiet desperation borne of compounding the pain of wasting your time as an adult by romanticizing the wasted time of your youth.

So yeah, it just kinda gets vulnerable, then they talk about how we're all trying to figure out how to find some sort of happiness/financial security in our lives', but we all just wanna be young forever, but we all just want to see tons of cash in our band account, but then the cost of living gets 2 high and we end up in THE SUBURBS. Kinda vulnerable. Might listen to this album while I take a walk thru a modern outdoor mall space complex.

Can't believe this album is 0.2 points 'better' than WAVVES/Best Coast.
Can't believe Big Boi got a 9.2.
Wonder if Panda Bear will break 9.0.
Wonder if Avey Tare will break 9.0.
Worried that the Arcade Fire won't be the album of the year.
Who will be album of the year?
Did Pitchfork have to give the Arcade Fire a 'low rating' because they are gonna be mad mainstream after charting at #1?
Is The Suburbs the Arcade Fire's best album yet?
Is The Suburbs 'the ultimate' Gen Y wave album in that it is 'brilliant', but we are still looking for something 'fresher' / 'more different' / 'less mainstream' to label as 'brilliant'?
Should the Arcade Fire be automatically granted above a 9.5 because of the 'grunt work'/branding they did for the indie genre?
Do u think Arcade Bros still worry about p4k scores like tons of other lil indie bands, or do they just care about how many millions of dollars they will make?