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Arcade Fire, "We Used to Wait"

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Arcade Fire, "We Used to Wait"

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"Now our lives are changing fast," sings Win Butler, spooked and sleepless. But his empathetic croon — and his band's orchestral- rock wallop — make high anxiety sound almost sublime.

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