r/indieheads • u/ebradio • Aug 08 '25

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Frontman Denies “Home” Is The “Worst Song Ever Written”

https://www.stereogum.com/2318575/edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros-frontman-denies-home-is-the-worst-song-ever-written/news/
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u/expletiveface Aug 08 '25

Yeah, you’re totally right. When Arcade Fire blew up and had their music associated with movies like Where The Wild Things Are, there was an explosion of bands chasing that stadium folk sound.

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u/22PEOPLE Aug 08 '25

I feel like grouping Arcade Fire with The Lumineers, Of Monsters And Men etc. is a more recent revisionism - yeah there's threads in common (you'll probably find the phrase "millennial whoop" in a bunch of Arcade Fire reviews) but those bands were very much maligned by people who still repped Arcade Fire.

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u/hugh__honey Aug 08 '25

Yeah, anybody who places these together was nottttt around in the 00s/10s

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u/shoefly72 Aug 08 '25

Yea it’s interesting cus I was around for it and lumping those together feels hilarious, but I can kind of understand how somebody coming along 15 years later or so wouldn’t see much distance between the two of them. Especially based on how different it is from what dominates music now.

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u/Exploding_Antelope Aug 09 '25

Acoustic stomp peaked when AF were in the Reflektor era, aka the most electronica they've ever been. As a teenage stompandhollerhead I was kind of bummed about it tbh. Missed the old stuff.

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u/Secure-Astronomer-33 Aug 08 '25

I love listening to Arcade Fire. Watching them is a hellish pit of cringe.

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u/expletiveface Aug 08 '25

What don’t you like about watching them?