ARCADE FIRE - NEON BIBLE [Vinyl]
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Artist: ARCADE FIREEdition: Vinyl
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Merge Records
Product features:
- Pop
- Black Mirror
- Keep the Car Running
- Neon Bible
- Intervention
- Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
- Ocean of Noise
- The Well and the Lighthouse
- (Antichrist Television Blues)
- Windowsill
- No Cars Go
- My Body Is a Cage
Music reviews of NEON BIBLE [Vinyl]
Music Review: Arcade Fire's Neon Bible - A Beautiful, Haunting Evolution
Rating: 5 Stars
2004's Funeral took all indie rock fans by surprise with its sweet, charming, intriguing sound and overwhelmingly original lyrics. Receiving perfect scores from nearly every critical publication, Arcade Fire definitely set a high standard for themselves right off the bat.
Neon Bible is a darker, more mature, and more progressive set of Arcade Fire tunes. From the first haunting whisper of "Black Mirror" to the powerful fadeout at the end of "My Body is a Cage," Arcade Fire paints a convicting picture of the consequences of America's focus on commercialism. With vivid parallels and resonant parables, each track becomes more and more commanding with each repeated listen.
Album highlights, including lead single "Keep the Car Running," "Intervention," "No Cars Go," and "Ocean of Noise," each bring their own unique songwriting element to the table. Gripping lyrics abound in each of the aforementioned tracks, specifically in "Intervention" ("You say it's money that we need / As if we're only mouths to feed / I know no matter what you say / There's some debts you'll never pay"). The careful simplicity of each phrase also adds to the lyrical brilliance of leader Win Butler, as it did so prevalently additionally in Funeral.
Though some Arcade Fire fans may not be accustomed to the album's frequent application of large arrangements or heavy organ usage, the employment of these techniques is artistically and sonically fitting and also adds some versatility to the band's catalogue. For example; organ-heavy tracks like "My Body is a Cage" and "Intervention" relate lyrically to spirituality and ecclesial conflict, making the strong presence of the organ a vital part of the songs' arrangements.
After listening to both albums many, many, many wonderful times, I have come to the apparently uncommon conclusion that Neon Bible outdoes Funeral with its concise composition and its dark melodies. Don't get me wrong-- Classic Arcade Fire songs like "Neighborhoods #1 (Tunnels)," "In the Backseat," "Wake Up," and "Neighborhoods #2 (Laika)" are tough to beat or even break even with. However, Neon Bible definitely has its own classics and is a force to be reckoned with for Arcade Fire fans and other indie rock fans alike. 2007's best indie rock album, hands down.
Description of NEON BIBLE [Vinyl]
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. The deluxe CD version is packaged in a hinged box with two 32-page flip books designed by the band. The LP is double 180-gram audiophile quality with three sides of music and an etching on the fourth side. The LP also includes a coupon for a free MP3 download of "Neon Bible". Arcade Fire's 2004 debut "Funeral" has scanned over 300,000 copies and is certified platinum in Canada.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
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