<P> The initial Montreal structure of the band began to dissolve in the summer of 2002, when they travelled to Butler's family farm on Mount Desert Island, Maine to record their self - titled EP . Tension between Butler and bassist Myles Broscoe led the latter to exit the band following the recording session . Richard Reed Parry, who had been enlisted to help the band record, began to collaborate with them during the sessions and would go on to join the band shortly afterwards . Around the same time, Joshua Deu left the band to continue his studies; he continued to collaborate on the visual aspects of the band . In the winter of 2003, the band celebrated the release of its EP with a show at Montreal's Casa del Popolo . Before a crowd packed beyond capacity, the band's set ended (in the middle of an encore) with an argument between Butler and Reed, who quit the band on - stage . Mills told gathered friends in the crowd immediately thereafter that he considered the band to have broken up, as such resigning from the band as well . Following the on - stage implosion, Butler's brother William Butler (subject of the early Arcade Fire song "William Pierce Butler") and Tim Kingsbury were brought in to replace Reed and Mills so that the band could continue, and they set out to promote the self - titled EP . The eponymous release (often referred to by fans as the Us Kids Know EP) was sold at early shows . After the band achieved fame, the EP was subsequently remastered and given a full release . </P> <P> The promise shown by the new band in its early live shows allowed them to land a record contract with the independent record label, Merge Records, before the end of its first year together . </P> <P> When asked about the rumour that the band's name refers to a fire in an arcade, Win Butler replied: "It's not a rumour, it's based on a story that someone told me . It's not an actual event, but one that I took to be real . I would say that it's probably something that the kid made up, but at the time I believed him ." </P> <P> Funeral was released in September 2004 in Canada and February 2005 in Great Britain . The title of the debut album referred to the deaths of several relatives of band members (prominently the Butlers' grandfather, composer / arranger Alvino Rey) during its recording . These events created a somber atmosphere that influenced songs such as "Une année sans lumière" ("A Year Without Light"), "In the Backseat", and "Haïti", Chassagne's elegy to her homeland . </P>

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