March 23, 2007
maudit music review
I am listening to the new Arcade Fire album. I liked "Funeral" a lot, so I got their new one. A lot of people are doing the same as me. "Neon Bible" is named after the first book that this guy wrote:
John Kennedy Toole probably passed my dad on the streets of New Orleans as a boy and didn't even know it. I can see him toddling up Canal St. holding his mother's hand while my father and his first wife Alice strolled in the opposite direction.
JKToole commit suicide in 1969. His mother pressured NO author Walker Percy to read her baby's magnum opus. Percy assisted in getting Confederacy published, which of course won the 1980 Pulitzer. John, you should have stuck around a bit longer.
Anyway, the Arcade Fire, like my dad, are Quebecois. You can tell with this new album that they had a higher budget to record it because they are backed by a string orchestra on much of it. The string orchestra is also from Quebec.
There is a man who haunts the A-town improv scene who reminds me very much of Ignatius Reilly. And one who reminds me very much of my father.
Arcade Fire's new album: B+
Posted by Zerd at March 23, 2007 03:19 PM