The Not Arcade Fires.
Jesus wept.
Saying OM&M sounds like Arcade Fire and/or the Decemberists is like saying that Snow Patrol sounds like Radiohead. Just as Snow Patrol sounded like a rip-off of Coldplay who sounded like a rip-off of Travis who sounded like a rip-off of Radiohead, the only way you're getting to the Arcade Fire or the Decemberists from OM&M is by way of bands like Mumford & Sons. if there is such a way to make a connection at all.
This is long form for saying that I don't agree with your opinion at all.
No Ohio boy. Go listen to both of their earlier materials. You'll see what I'm talking about.
Sorry dude. I don't know Snow Patrol so I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm sure they sound like Radiohead....
ps Who the fuck is Travis? Some band that you heard on the radio?
Every band sounds like every other band, except that one band who did it first. They're completely different from every one else.
Your proximity to large media outlets have destroyed your ability to discern bad from good.
Originally Posted by Edmontonian
It's good that you are basing your rip off accusations on one song (which apparently rips off 2 bands that sound nothing alike) and the fact that they shout "Hey"! No artist did that before Arcade Fire. No artist at all. Also, the Decemberists were the first band to ever use an accordion. Good to know.
clearly weird al yankovic invented the accordion
Does n e 1 know who's playing Coachella this year?
7/3/2015 - Rodhad + DJ Hyperactive + Subversive - Lot 613
7/31/2015 - HOWLING + Ame (live) - Lot 613
9/25/2015 - Divided Love with Daniel Avery, Roman Flugel, and Solar - Lot 613
10/3/2015 - Headless Horseman (live)
10/11/2015 - Jamie XX - Shrine Expo Hall
10/30/2015 - Atom TM & Tobias, Voices from the Lake - Lot 613
4/22/2016 - 4/24/2016 - Coachella Wk2
Holy FUCK Of Monsters And Men use tempo changes? Call the goddamn time signature police.
Actually I understand what he's trying to say. Folk/indie is a thing now, maaaaaaan. Give it a few more years and it'll be out of your hair.
7/3/2015 - Rodhad + DJ Hyperactive + Subversive - Lot 613
7/31/2015 - HOWLING + Ame (live) - Lot 613
9/25/2015 - Divided Love with Daniel Avery, Roman Flugel, and Solar - Lot 613
10/3/2015 - Headless Horseman (live)
10/11/2015 - Jamie XX - Shrine Expo Hall
10/30/2015 - Atom TM & Tobias, Voices from the Lake - Lot 613
4/22/2016 - 4/24/2016 - Coachella Wk2
Muse is playing Vegas dangerously close to Coachella - March 17, 2013.
fuckin' with the lights on
AFP album 2/25
confirmed
No one actually cares and I don't need to listen to more than one song. Well no one who has any real discerning or good taste in music. Lemmings, know nothings etc will flock to wherever they're playing next! Could this band be any more UNORIGINAL? A dash of Edward Sharpe, a pinch of Mumford and more than a spoonful of Arcade Fire. Perfect sound a like crap for the sheeple of today...
Not all bands from Iceland are unique and creative I guess..
3rd rate watered down Arcade Mumford Fire!
ps Frankly I don't care if you listen to them or not. Just making my point!
Here I found a great review from NY Times...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/ar...ster-hall.htmlIceland could be a British isle or a Canadian province for Of Monsters and Men, the Icelandic band that headlined Webster Hall on Friday night. Of Monsters and Men connects two strains of Celtic-rooted music that spur robust, foot-stamping singalongs: the sea chantey and the arena-rock chorus, the folky and the anthemic. Its songs regularly ascend from guitar-strumming, accordion-tootling openings to brawny rock marches topped by la-las for the crowd to join, a strategy also used by Mumford & Sons, the Decemberists, Arcade Fire and, in decades past, the Scottish band Big Country.
Another from AV Club!
http://www.avclub.com/articles/of-mo...and-men,72026/Album: My Head Is An Animal by Of Monsters And Men (out now on Universal)
Press play if you like: Arcade Fire, The Delgados, The Decemberists, panoramic folk-pop
Some background: Originally founded as a duo by songwriters Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson, Iceland’s Of Monsters And Men quickly expanded to a sextet as its homeland popularity grew. A polished folk-pop gem, the group’s debut, My Name Is An Animal, layers rustic folk songs with horns, strings, accordion, and dueling male-female vocals, fueling the soaring, shout-along choruses. The band channels an Arcade Fire influence most prominently on “Six Weeks”—which lifts the charging drum beat from “Wake Up”—and “Mountain Sound” (one of two new tracks for the recent U.S. release of Animal) which follows a winding synth line through a rousing chorus. The quiet slow-burn of “Love Love Love” glides with Hilmarsdóttir’s lilting vocals, while Þórhallsson leads the uplifting “Your Bones." But the male-female vocals also play well off each other. On the bouncy strummer “Sloom,” the two voices weave together to produce honeyed harmonies that buoy the arrangement.