10 Overrated Rock Music Albums Of The 2010s
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
After over half a decade of being one of the most innovative and acclaimed acts in indie, Arcade Fire hit the big time with 2010’s Grammy winning, stadium troubling album The Suburbs. Not coincidentally, it was also the flattest, most ordinary record they had put out to date.
The opening title track is the first warning sign, a plinky plonky piano song that creeps along for five uninspiring minutes. Worse are the bog standard rock songs, of which this album has plenty. Ready to Start, Month of May, We Used to Wait. When not plodding through rockers, Win Butler tries to show off his vocabulary on Rococo.
It would be remiss not to note that The Suburbs contains moments of greatness, like Sprawl II, one of their very best tracks, and the weird, lyrically interesting City With No Children, but these are slim pickings on a record that runs for over an hour.
The Suburbs made Arcade Fire huge, but the band haven’t known quite what to do with themselves since. Follow up Reflektor went weird again to mostly good effect, and nothing’s quite landed since then.