Claude says:Recorded in a renovated church in Farnham, Quebec — plus sessions with the Budapest Film Orchestra and a military men's choir, and one by the Hudson River — Arcade Fire's second album pushed their sound into grander, more theatrical territory. You picked it up a year after release in March 2008 and spent the next three years living inside it, especially "Intervention" and the title track, with November 2008 as the peak month before it settled into a long, slow drift you still catch yourself in.