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In a recent interview with Arcade Fire they spotlighted back on their big year and revealed a particular highlight of 2010:Robert Hilburn made a comparison to The Beatles made.

Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler to liken the fervor for the band’s well-received third album The Suburbs to the kind of anticipation a new Beatles album once inspired.

The former Los Angeles Times contributor e-mailed said that Hilburn wrote him an email as the record was coming out, and he was like, ‘Guys, it kind of feels like a Beatles album is coming out,” said Butler. “There’s something electric in the air."

Arcade Fire Stand Up Against The Digital Age

Despite the rise in digital formats Arcade Fire believe that albums can last in the music industry revealed by the band member.

'The Suburbs'was named Gigwise's album of 2010,the band member said that they will continue to bring music in the same pattern.

"I hope that something pure can last. A lot of things like that end up being memos. I keep trying to remember the good things that get lost along the way and trying to apply those lessons to the way the world actually is,'' frontman Win Butler told The Scotsman.

He added: ''I've been moved by albums a lot more than I've been moved by singles and we're an album band. I'm not going to stop making albums because of some fad of digital distribution.''

Meanwhile, Arcade Fire will join The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys at next year's Benicassim festival in Spain.

Arcade Fire give setlist clues ahead of UK and Ireland tour

Fans heading to Arcade Fire's UK and Ireland tour dates from Wednesday (December 1) have been given a hint as to what songs the band will play.

The collective play eight gigs, calling at venues in London, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Cardiff.

Recent gigs at Lyon's Halle Tony Garnier (November 26) and Munich's Zenith (28) have seen them play a set featuring material from across their career, though with more tracks coming from their latest album 'The Suburbs'. As is traditional, the band have been ending their gigs with 'Wake Up'.

The band's setlist in Munich was:

'Ready To Start'
'Month Of May'
'Neighborhood #2 (Laika)'
'No Cars Go'
'Haïti'
'Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)'
'Modern Man'
'Rococo'
'My Body Is A Cage'
'The Suburbs'
'Intervention'
'Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)'
'Rebellion (Lies)'
'Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)'
'We Used to Wait'
'Keep the Car Running'
'Wake Up'

Arcade Fire kick off their UK and Ireland tour on Wednesday at London's O2 Arena.