With 2001’s Is This It, The Strokes ushered in a mainstream music fad of stripped down, lo-fi production and straightforward presentation that spread to seemingly countless bands in the ensuing months. A scarce three years later, however, a small Canadian band by the name of Arcade Fire (among others) rose to challenge these sparse constructions, […]

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