Old Love Letters Inspire Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs”
At the time, Win Butler of Arcade Fire didn’t know that one summer of romantic letter-writing would influence his career in music, more specifically their most recent album, The Suburbs, but it did.
In the interview, the front-man said the song ‘We Used To Wait’ was inspired by romantic postal liaisons he used to undertake.
“In high school I had a letter-writing romance with a girl,” he said. “I was trying to remember that time… waiting an entire summer, pretty much half a year, the anxiousness of waiting for letters to arrive.”
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It sounds like me around my birthday and Christmas, checking the mail everyday for those colorful envelopes addressed to Sadie.
Win continued, “All day every day there’s almost this cloud of feeling hanging over everything. We’d (his family) be in Maine, I’d walk down to the post office and come back… the whole day was consumed by that feeling.”
All I have to say is thank god for e-mail and text messaging.
Story courtesy: NME
Jammy
August 3, 2010 9:59 am
@ink here there all Arcade Fire tracks in mp3.
The suburbs, ready to start, modern man, rococo, all. Enjoy.