Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

Album Info

Artist: Arcade Fire

Title: Neon Bible

Year: 2007

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Tracklist

  • 1. Black Mirror (4:13)
  • 2. Keep the Car Running (3:29)
  • 3. Neon Bible (2:16)
  • 4. Intervention (4:19)
  • 5. Black Wave / Bad Vibrations (3:57)
  • 6. Ocean of Noise (4:53)
  • 7. The Well and the Lighthouse (3:56)
  • 8. (Antichrist Television Blues) (5:10)
  • 9. Windowsill (4:16)
  • 10. No Cars Go (5:43)
  • 11. My Body Is a Cage (4:47)

Review

I've got "Neon Bible" on my mind, Arcade Fire's sophomore effort that dropped in 2007. This record is like a bolt of lightning on a stormy night - it's grand, it's sweeping, and it's gonna make you feel something.

Musically, Arcade Fire went all in on this one. They're talkin' hurdy-gurdys, mandolins, accordions, and pipe organs - yeah, it's a lot. But somehow, it all comes together in this beautiful, haunting way that'll give you chills. It's like they took all the anxiety and unease of the post-9/11 world and turned it into sound.

Lyrically, Win Butler and the gang are digging deep into the big questions - violence, paranoia, the whole shebang. They're not afraid to get real about the world we live in, and that urgency, that desperation, it comes through in every note. And let me tell you, it resonates. We're talking Polaris Music Prize, Grammy nominations, Juno Awards - the critics were raving about this one. "Neon Bible" is like a time capsule of the 2000s indie rock scene, and it still holds up today. - Ivy