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Arcade Fire's Win Butler grew up in The Woodlands, an intensely artificial suburb of Houston; a postmodern American childhood. He left home as a teenager to attend Exeter, the elite boarding school in New Hampshire, then he kept going further north to Montreal, where he formed one of the most significant and progressive indie rock bands of the past ten years.

Sunday marks a decade since the release of Arcade Fire's debut album, Funeral, a masterful collection of ten baroque pop rock songs that, at the time of its 2004 release, resembled hardly anything that came before it.

The band's shapeshifting style, from steampunk to gothic western to gutter glam, encompassed all of Butler's heritage and imagination, and it has influenced popular culture, as a whole.

Musically, Arcade Fire spawned dozens of "WHOOAAA-OHHHH-OHHHH" choral imitators (Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Kings Of Leon ... the new U2 single).

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Stylistically, Win Butler can very much claim ownership to the undercut. Think short on the sides and long, stringy, usually greasy on the top. Sometimes flipped, sometimes combed back, it has become one of the trendiest hairstyles for a certain subsect of dark-haired white males, regardless of age.

Not everyone can pull it off (Kim Jong-un, really?) but for those who can, it works.

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