Arcade Fire's Funeral has topped Maclean's magazine's list of the best Canadian albums released between 2000 and 2009.
Funeral bested Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People, which took the #2 spot on the list. Interestingly, Black Mountain's 2005 self-titled album took #3 instead of the band's Polaris Music Prize short-listed In The Future. The New Pornographers' Mass Romantic came in at #4, while Wolf Parade's Apologies To The Queen Mary rounded out the top five.
The list mostly includes Canadian albums released in the first half of the decade. Feist's The Reminder is the only album on the list that was released after 2005.
Arcade Fire are working on the follow-up to 2007's Neon Bible with producer Markus Dravs (Coldplay, Brian Eno). Billboard.com reported earlier this month the album could be out in May, but the band's representative has since said that's not the case and there's no scheduled release date just yet.
Here is Maclean's magazine's list of the decade's best albums:
1. Arcade Fire — Funeral
2. Broken Social Scene — You Forgot It In People
3. Black Mountain — Black Mountain
4. The New Pornographers — Mass Romantic
5. Wolf Parade — Apologies To The Queen Mary
6. Sarah Harmer — You Were Here
7. Tangiers — Hot New Spirits
8. Sam Roberts — The Inhuman Condition EP
9. Constantines — Shine A Light
10. Feist — The Reminder
Funeral bested Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People, which took the #2 spot on the list. Interestingly, Black Mountain's 2005 self-titled album took #3 instead of the band's Polaris Music Prize short-listed In The Future. The New Pornographers' Mass Romantic came in at #4, while Wolf Parade's Apologies To The Queen Mary rounded out the top five.
The list mostly includes Canadian albums released in the first half of the decade. Feist's The Reminder is the only album on the list that was released after 2005.
Arcade Fire are working on the follow-up to 2007's Neon Bible with producer Markus Dravs (Coldplay, Brian Eno). Billboard.com reported earlier this month the album could be out in May, but the band's representative has since said that's not the case and there's no scheduled release date just yet.
Here is Maclean's magazine's list of the decade's best albums:
1. Arcade Fire — Funeral
2. Broken Social Scene — You Forgot It In People
3. Black Mountain — Black Mountain
4. The New Pornographers — Mass Romantic
5. Wolf Parade — Apologies To The Queen Mary
6. Sarah Harmer — You Were Here
7. Tangiers — Hot New Spirits
8. Sam Roberts — The Inhuman Condition EP
9. Constantines — Shine A Light
10. Feist — The Reminder
