Arcade Fire is definitely one of my favourite bands of all time. I love the Montreal music scene and seem to dig everything that develops from that side of the country. Ocean of Noise is from the album Neon Bible and was released in 2007.
The ocean is so beautiful from a distance but expansive and exposed when experiencing it from the surface. This is an interview from Win Butler from New Musical Express in 2007 describing how the ocean inspired this song: "My parents live near the ocean and we've gone there quite a bit over the history of our band. It's really isolated there by the ocean. I remember one time we went out on the 4th of July. It was dusk and we had a little motorboat, so we went out and the fog was starting to roll. We stopped and all of a sudden we were surrounded by fog. We had no idea where we were. And there was a fog horn. It's like you're never less in control of your own life than when you're in the ocean underneath a big wave and there is fog all around you. You can just see that you're a passenger in a weird sense. Things are out of your control. It was just that kind of feeling that I wanted to express."
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