Funeral

Arcade Fire · 2004 · Punk / Indie

Funeral by Arcade Fire (2004), № 96 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, and a Montréal ensemble grieving four real deaths. The most-mourned indie record of the 2000s and the one that opened the door for everything after.

Read the full deep dive — pressing guide, session reconstruction and scoring data — on The Lead-In.