Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

Neon Bible is the sophomore release from the Montreal collective Arcade Fire. The album won the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album and was shortlisted for the 2007 Polaris Prize.

The album was hugely popular (#1 Canada, #2 US, #2 UK) and received generally favourable reviews, although usually not quite as favourable as its predecessor:

• AllMusic gives it 4 stars out of 5
• Robert Christgau graded it an A+
• Pitchfork rates it an 8.4 out of 10
• Rolling Stone gave it only 3.5 stars out of 5

The album included four songs that were released as singles: "Black Mirror," "Keep the Car Running," "Intervention" and "No Cars Go."

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Track Listing

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

Personnel

• Arcade Fire
  • Will Butler – keyboards, synthesizer, bass, guitar, percussion, background vocals
  • Win Butler – vocals, mandolin
  • Régine Chassagne – vocals, hurdy-gurdy, accordion, drums, xylophone, keyboards, organ
  • Jeremy Gara – drums
  • Tim Kingsbury – bass, guitar, keyboards, background vocals
  • Richard Reed Parry – guitar, double bass, drums, celesta, keyboards, accordion, background vocals
  • Sarah Neufeld – violin, background vocals
• Mélanie Auclair – cello
• Hadji Bakara – Effects
• Owen Pallett – violin
• Liza Rey – harp
• Marika Anthony-Shaw – viola
• Andreas Stolzfus, Colin Stetson, Edith Gruber, Geoffrey Shoesmith, Jake Henry, Laurent Ménard, Margaret Gundara, Pietro Amato – brass
• Shauna Callender, Joanne Degand, Chantel Gero, Tasha Gero, Jean Sherwood – vocals

• Arcade Fire – Funeral (album)
• Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (album)
• Arcade Fire – Wake Up (song)