After the phenomenal critical success of Neon Bible, Arcade Fire managed to go several better with its follow-up, an album that’s been so showered with superlatives it’s seemed in grave danger of drowning at times. One listen and it’s clear all the praise was utterly justified: never has stifling suburban malaise sounded so sublime. In addition to their trademark, expansive baroque pop, the Montreal collective made supremely successful maiden voyages into foreign musical waters, offering up blistering rock, ambling country and spidery, synth-driven pop, to prove that experimentation was truly at the beating heart of The Suburbs…