{"id":4915,"date":"2010-07-15T11:08:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2010-07-23T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T03:43:00","slug":"arcade-fire-8-suburbs-covers-and-3-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=4915","title":{"rendered":"Arcade Fire: 8 Suburbs Covers and 4 Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/thesuburbs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4917\" title=\"Pre-order Arcade Fire The Suburbs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/arcade_fire_suburbs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/arcade_fire_suburbs.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/arcade_fire_suburbs-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4916\" title=\"8 Album Covers for The Suburbs by Arcade Fire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/arcadefire_8suburbs_covers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/arcadefire_8suburbs_covers.jpg 405w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/arcadefire_8suburbs_covers-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why is <a title=\"Official Arcade Fire MySpace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/arcadefireofficial\" target=\"_blank\">Arcade Fire<\/a> releasing <em>The Suburbs<\/em> with eight not-so-different album covers? <a title=\"Arcade Fire Suburbs covers at Pitchfork \" href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/39469-see-all-eight-arcade-fire-album-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pitchfork<\/a> thinks it&#8217;s commentary on the suburbs themselves. I think it&#8217;s commentary + shrewd marketing towards music completionists like myself. Damnit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Arcade Fire \"The Suburbs\" (full)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/mp3\/friday_052810\/arcadefire_TheSuburbs.mp3\">Arcade Fire \u201cThe Suburbs\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/mp3\/friday_061810\/ArcadeFire_ReadyToStart.mp3\">Arcade Fire \u201cReady to Start\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/mp3\/ArcadeFire_MonthofMay.mp3\">Arcade Fire &#8220;Month of May&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/mp3\/ArcadeFire_sprawl-ii-mountains-beyond-mountains.mp3\">Arcade Fire \u201cSprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Check out this <a title=\"Arcade Fire: Sprawl II and Animated Suburbs Cover\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=5047\">Suburbs animation <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out August 3rd:  <a title=\"Pre-order Arcade Fire The Suburbs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/thesuburbs\/\" target=\"_blank\">pre-order The Suburbs <\/a> \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u2022   \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rock out with the Umlaut<\/strong> <a title=\"Rock out with the Umlaut every Friday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?tag=fridayfive\">every Friday<\/a> \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Follow <strong>\u00dc\u00dc<\/strong> on <a title=\"Follow us on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/fredabercrombie\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> \/ <a title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/blognetworks\/blog\/unnecessary_umlaut\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Arcade Fire releasing The Suburbs with eight not-so-different album covers? Pitchfork thinks it&#8217;s commentary on the suburbs themselves. I think it&#8217;s commentary + shrewd marketing towards music completionists like myself. Damnit. Arcade Fire \u201cThe Suburbs\u201d Arcade Fire \u201cReady to Start\u201d Arcade Fire &#8220;Month of May&#8221; Arcade Fire \u201cSprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) UPDATE: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[447,172,61,1904],"class_list":["post-4915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","tag-album-cover-art","tag-arcade-fire","tag-mp3","tag-the-suburbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5054,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}