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Neon Bible
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0673855028521
Label: Merge Records
Manufacturer: Merge Records
MPN: 50285
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Merge Records
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Studio: Merge Records
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Editorial Review:
For their second full-length, the Montreal-based seven-or-eight-piece Arcade Fire show themselves capable of Big Rock, as original, and as potentially marquee-topping as TV on the Radio and Sigur Ros. Regardless, the intentional murkiness of these pleasantly anthemic New Wave dirges makes it sound as if the music has already reverberated through a crowded cement stadium. Named after cult author John Kennedy Toole's first novel, Neon Bible is smart and subtle enough to present itself as a personal discovery for every listener, every word to be pored over by fans (as with those of Tori Amos, Pavement, and Radiohead). Surely, lines like "The sound is not asleep/ It's moving under my feet" have already been scribbled onto the margins of countless textbooks. Such words are delivered with less intensity this time, but no less import. For vocal influences, lead singer Win Butler seems to have traded his '80s Bowie in for an '80s Springsteen, at least on the songs "Antichrist Television Blues" and "Windowsill" (though "Intervention" sounds an awful lot like '80s era Go-Betweens). The kitchen sink arrangements include the use of an Eastern European orchestra, pipe organ, hurdy gurdy, and a military choir. --Mike McGonigal
The second album from Montreal's Arcade Fire exceeds all expectations. With string and orchestral arrangements by two of the band members, "Neon Bible" is full of both half-assed punk rock mistakes and meticulously orchestrated woodwinds. Processed strings and mandolin. Quiet rumbles and loud rumbles. But mostly just eleven songs that the band thinks are really good.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - So and So
Quite good but not as good as I expected and how it is rated...maybe keeping on listening I will change my mind. Maybe.
Rating:  - At last, something fresh!
Recently discovered this band and I must say this is something special! At age 48 I have heard so much stuff and over the past years I thought I had just gotten too old (as it would be presumptuous to claim that modern music is going nowhere fast). So for those that listened and still listen to Prefab Sprout, Joy Division and even New Order, for those that enjoyed Echo and the Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here, well, check out these kids from Canada. It might just blow you away. Yes, the production is ... Read More
Rating: - Improvements
*Review from a Classic Rock fan
I really felt that this album is much more diverse than Funeral. Whereas Funeral seemed to have an overall sound to it, this album makes it all much more interesting, adding a lot of organ and orchestral pieces. It starts and ends wonderfully, with "Black Mirror" in the beginning setting the stage for what is to come, and ending with "No Cars Go" (featured in Top Gear) and "My Body Is A Cage," which I loved and is my favorite song off the album. The structure of ... Read More
Rating: - Vocals, Check; Arrangements, Check; Instrumentation, Check; Lyrics, Hmmmm.
Funeral sounds like a dance party compared to Neon Bible. All the elements that made Arcade Fire such a blast of fresh air are still firmly in place. What other group does the interplay between vocals and everything-into-the-mix instrumentation nearly as well? It's hard for me to think of one. But I've been hearing white guys sing about how awful things are and the coming apocalypse for pretty much four decades now and it is getting very old. Lyrics like "Mirror, mirror on the wall/Show me where ... Read More
Rating: - More complete Album than Funeral
After hating on this CD when it came out because it wasnt like Funeral, I finally took a listen and realized how amazing it is. It is a complete album that you should play from start to end to get the full feelin of each song. Funeral was more raw and didnt seem to have that tie between each song. Best tracks are 6, 10, and 11.
Their live show is dope as well.
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