Arcade Fire at the Grammys?

I know not many people are familiar with the Canadian, indie band, Arcade Fire, as a matter of fact I'm only familiar with the name because my friends at home have said it a few times. When I saw that they won a Grammy for Album of the Year, and had beaten Emminem, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry to get it, I was pretty much dumbfounded. The first time I had listened to their music was the night of the Grammys, and I've gotta say, they aren't too shabby, even though at times their performance seemed less than coordinated and looked like a whole lot of smoke, and screaming. So for the sake of figuring out if there performance was in fact any good, I'm gonna give it the old SSM treatment. I also figured nobody else would talk about the rogue band, so I might as well be the one.

Sight:
The performance begins, and all you can see are several blue glowing lights floating in the air. Then, out of nowhere, everything pops off and there are white lights pointing everywhere and pivoting in random courses of direction. The lights even hit the camera and blind that quite a few times. The camera goes from person to person and smoke begins to slowly rise from the stage. The visibility of the band and audience is pretty terrible because of the smoke and lights combination. The camera goes from one performer to another and then the audience and so on, eventually showing a few shots of all the people on stage (there's a lot). Two people ride up on stage with bicycles, do a few tricks and then begin circling around the stage. The rest of the show is basically just chaos, camera wise, as the camera chases around the bikers, swoops in from the sky to get close ups, and changes its shot every 3 seconds or so.

Sound:
The sound in the performance is pretty much just as hectic as the visuals are. The performance starts off quiet, you hear someone say "1, 2, 3, 4!" and then you let the ruckus commence. The song is filled with loud drums, literal screaming, guitars and a vocalist (who does more than just scream). The strange thing is that somehow, all these loud noises actually don't sound half bad. It's almost freeing to listen to this, versus all the autotune dependent music that you hear on the radio today. The music reminds me of something out of the 70's like a sort of modernize version of Led Zeppelin. For this reason I give Arcade Fire credit for breaking the norms of the music business today.

Motion:
The motion, just like the rest of the performance, was chaotic. The lights were the most noticeable source of motion, as they never stopped moving. The next big motion was that of the guy playing the drums, he took huge drastic arm motions to hit the drums and play them. Also memorable was the more subtle (in comparison to everything else) motion of the "cyclists" riding around the stage.

In conclusion, I'm still kinda unsure what I think about Arcade Fire, but I like that they're breaking the norm and that they're being recognized for it. I also like the concept of a somewhat modernized Led Zeppelin band (although I think Led Zeppelin was probably more tame than Arcade Fire). The proper analogy would be that Arcade Fire sounds like what I can only imagine Led Zeppelin would sound like if they were playing with a loud and eccentric Ozzy Osbourne.