Here is an album that will grace the very top of many top 10 lists all over the web. With an 86% metacritic.com score and 3 grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Best Alternative Music Album, and Best Rock Performance, it’s easy to see why.
This album is unlike the bands past two albums. It has a feel of maturity to it and there is a stronger sound to it. The album flows naturally from one song to the next. According to the band, this album includes songs influenced from the suburbs of Chicago. Win, the lead singer from the band, says the album “is neither a love letter to, nor an indictment of the suburbs.” From the opening track, “The Suburbs” you are hit with a great piece of alternative rock music, which has a tad touch of classic rock to it. It feels old, yet it feels new at the same time. In fact, that’s how the whole album feels. It is bringing that classic rock sound up to the modern times, it immerses you in a feeling that you really are in the suburbs in the 80′s again. (Not that I really grew up in the burbs anyways).
The most enjoyable part of the album is how it flows so nicely from one song to the next. The song selection for this album is perfect. Even the fast and gritty “Month of May” doesn’t feel out of place at all. And the reprise of “The Suburbs” is an excellent closer to the album.
Favorite songs from the album
01 The Suburbs by Irene Rx