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The Suburbs teamed with producer Steve Greenberg who scored a massive hit with the song "Funkytown" as part of his group Lipps Inc. It included another dance hit, "Waiting," and with the Suburbs regularly selling out multiple nights at First Avenue in Minneapolis and drawing impressive crowds elsewhere, the group landed a deal with Mercury Records, who obtained the rights to the Suburbs ' back catalog and promptly reissued Dream Hog.

In , the band released their first major-label album, Love Is the Law , again produced by Steve Greenberg , but while the title tune became a big hit in Minneapolis and received scattered airplay elsewhere, Mercury were uncertain how to promote the band, and despite strong reviews and extensive touring, the album wasn't the breakout hit the band had hoped for.

The Suburbs began playing shows every year or so over the next few years, and Chaney formed his own record label, Beejtar Records, which reissued In Combo , Credit in Heaven , and Love Is the Law in , as well as the "best-of" collection Chemistry Set: Songs of the Suburbs in In late , the group mourned the loss of guitarist Bruce Allen , who also worked as a graphic designer and created the group's logo. Not long after Allen 's death, bassist Michael Halliday retired from the Suburbs , largely because of his struggle with arthritis.

The rest of the band soldiered on, playing occasional shows with new members Steve Brantseg on guitar and Steve Price on bass, marking the first changes in the band's lineup since they began. As Poling told a reporter, "Always in the back of my mind I knew I had another rock record in me.

Who would I get to play? Then the more I thought: what's the best rock band that I know? I already have it. It was released as the band was enjoying a new surge of popularity, after marriage equality activists with the Suburbs ' blessings used the song "Love Is the Law" as the theme song for their successful campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Minneapolis.

Following the release of Si Sauvage , the Suburbs supported the release with live appearances in the Midwest and East Coast. The result was that the CD and digital versions of the album could sound as close to vinyl as possible. In that same Clash Magazine interview, Butler looks back on the evolution of the now acoustically driven number, "Deep Blue.

The version that landed on the album is, as Butler pointed out, a "balance between this almost demo quality and the synth stuff.

Mountains Beyond Mountains is the title of a book by author Tracy Kidder about the life of anthropologist Paul Farmer.

Farmer would go on to form the non-profit healthcare organization Partners in Health, with whom Arcade Fire have teamed up. It's really good that someone followed through on this idea, and went through all the bullshit and red tape and garbage and depressing setbacks, and made this thing that could have not been real, but is real.

It's worth pursuing. When it came to the album cover, the band needed an image that could have been anywhere and nowhere. The original idea was to drive from Longueuil, Quebec, where Chassagne grew up, to the Texas suburb of the Woodlands, where Win and Will were from, and take pictures through the windshield on the way. The highways proved to be less than picturesque, so art director Vincent Morisset instead explored the Woodlands with a photographer, taking pictures of streets and homes.

Those images were projected onto a wall with a Mercedes Benz in the foreground — an homage to a technique used by Alfred Hitchcock — ending up with the iconic album cover. To date, the specific location of the house on the cover is a secret, but Will Butler did reveal to Q magazine that "the car in the driveway belongs to a friend of ours, Tyler, who's now our guitar tech.

The label is home to some of indie music's biggest names like Spoon, Neutral Milk Hotel and the Magnetic Fields, but commercially, Arcade Fire is one of Merge's biggest success stories. While their debut, Funeral , was the first Merge release to crack the Billboard Top , The Suburbs would surpass that by becoming the first album on the label to land at the No.

Members Win Butler, Will Butler and Sara Neufeld appear in the music video for the title track, "The Suburbs," but as masked homeland security officers. When director Spike Jonze was casting the teenagers in the Suburbs short film and music video, he looked for first-time actors.

This is the first time we ever got to see Sam Dillon and Zoe Graham onscreen, but it wasn't our last: the two Texas natives were later featured in Richard Linklater's Oscar-nominated film, Boyhood. Instant gratification culture was a way off. How could an album be nostalgic and forward-thinking all at once? The implication was that the band were oddballs ill-equipped for the U2 levels of mega-fame that surely beckoned. They were wide-eyed dreamers, too pure and idealistic for this world.

Each had one foot in those adolescent ideals, and another in the daunting reality of the present.