Arcade Fire’s forthcoming album The Suburbs isn’t slated to arrive until Aug. 3 in the U.S. via Merge and Aug. 2 in the U.K. and Europe, but Consequence of Sound reveals another reason why fans will want to rush out to buy the record: it comes with eight different album covers! Win Butler & Co. created eight different covers for their third studio album, with each depicting a different perspective of a suburban neighbor. JB HI-FI reports that each cover will be picked at random so you may get an album cover featuring a car facing a wooden fence while your friend might get one with a car facing another house!

Arcade Fire has kept fans waiting a long time for its follow-up to 2007’s Neon Bible, but the Canadian band is sure to live up to the hype. Arcade Fire worked with producer Markus Dravs (who also produced Neon Bible) and arranger Owen Pallett, the Polaris Prize-winning creative mind behind Final Fantasy. Pallett, who has worked with Arcade Fire in the past, tweeted about the project, saying, “Just completed 10 days on the best album I’ve ever had the pleasure of working on.” The Suburbs’ predecessor, Neon Bible, peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart in March 2007 and has sold 421,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Arcade Fire’s Will and Win Butler recently spoke with NPR about the title of their forthcoming album, and Win said, “Will and I were born in a really small town in California, on the Nevada border. Maybe 50 people on the side of a mountain. We moved to the suburbs of Houston when we were young. Being a very young child, it’s like going to Mars or something. The blast of hot air when you get off the plane at Houston. Just trying to talk about some of the feeling [on the album].” Win added that there are “two poles on the album, maybe have a rock ‘n’ roll thing, then more electronics. The album lies between these extremes.”

Will and Win are two of the seven members of Arcade Fire, and Billboard.com reports that the group owns their own recording studio, master recordings and publishing rights; license those rights to different labels around the world; refuse corporate Cialis sponsorships, the majority of commercial placements and private party performances and essentially are in control of all major decisions as the band enjoys continued success.

Co-founder of Merge Records (the indie label that issued Arcade Fire’s first two albums in North America) Mac McCaughan tells Billboard.com, “In some ways they are forced to operate differently than other bands. When your first album is Funeral and it does so well and is so well-loved by people and there’s such a level of fervor about the band from the outset, that creates a high level of expectation for everything they do from there on out. That’s something that no other band on Merge has had to deal with.” McCaughan anticipates that The Suburbs will become the biggest-selling album in the North Carolina-based label’s history of more than 20 years.

Arcade Fire will hit the road in support of The Suburbs for a brief tour between Aug. 1-11, performing headlining gigs in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Nashville, Atlanta and Columbia, Md. The Canadian band will also perform at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago and will be supported by Spoon on its New York, Philly, D.C. and Atlanta dates. Fans aching to hear songs off The Suburbs live can get Arcade Fire tickets online today.

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