ARCADE FIRE - Funeral WALTER EGAN Gary Hughes’ self-titled solo debut

Gary Hughes’ self-titled solo debut

from 1973's Greeting from Asbury Park

the closing of one songwriting chapter and the start of another

Later that year

- The Observer

ARCADE FIRE - Funeral WALTER EGAN Gary Hughes’ self-titled solo debutLP Vinyl The Arcade Fire coalesced in Montreal, Quebec, and recorded their debut album Funeral during one of that citys arduous winters. It is a truly eccentric rock record: bizarre at turns and recognizable elsewhere, equally beautiful and harrowing, theatrical and sincere. At times, the albums total disregard of formula and expectation is positively thrilling. its like a higher pitched David Byrne fronting Echo and the Bunnymen, the first two Roxy