{"id":565,"date":"2007-03-09T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=565"},"modified":"2007-03-09T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T04:41:00","slug":"arcade-fire-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/03\/09\/arcade-fire-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcade Fire strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early 2005, my friend Kris introduced me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcadefire.com\">Arcade Fire<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Funeral<\/i> and loved the natural energy and acoustic layers they brought to the album. It became one of the biggest independent artist sales of the year. They opened for U2 in Montreal that fall (I was already in Guatemala, so there was no way I could make it :(). I picked up there first self-titled LP too and actually like it better than <i>Funeral<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog3\/neonbible.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been anxiously waiting for another realease and on Tuesday I saw it advertised on iTunes: <i>Neon Bible<\/i>. I&#8217;m really enjoying it, especially the church organ &#8220;Intervention&#8221; and the title track groove. In this album the band explores the dark side of religion: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Working for the church while <br \/>your life falls apart. <br \/>Singin\u2019 hallelujah with the fear in your heart. <br \/>Every spark of friendship and love <br \/>will die without a home. <br \/>Hear the soldier groan, \u201cWe\u2019ll go at it alone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early 2005, my friend Kris introduced me to Arcade Fire&#8216;s Funeral and loved the natural energy and acoustic layers they brought to the album. It became one of the biggest independent artist sales of the year. They opened for U2 in Montreal that fall (I was already in Guatemala, so there was no way I &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/03\/09\/arcade-fire-strikes-again\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-565","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-music","9":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}