Neon Bible : Deluxe Edition (Deluxe CD)
DELUXE EDITION. The eagerly anticipated second album from Montreal's Arcade Fire exceeds all expectations. Neon Bible was written, produced, arranged, and performed by the Arcade Fire and recorded throughout 2006 in Quebec, New York, Budapest, and London with recording and engineering help from Markus Dravs (Bjork, Brian Eno) and Scott Colburn (Animal Collective, Sun City Girls). With string and orchestral arrangements by the band's own Owen Pallet (also Final Fantasy) and Regine Chassagne, 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.
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Black Mirror |
| 2 | Keep the Car Running |
| 3 | Neon Bible |
| 4 | Intervention |
| 5 | Black Wave/Bad Vibrations |
| 6 | Ocean of Noise |
| 7 | The Well and the Lighthouse |
| 8 | Antichrist Television Blues |
| 9 | Windowsill |
| 10 | No Cars Go |
| 11 | My Body Is a Cage |
| Michelle S.
- Akron, OH, |
| The Arcade Fire have made something darker and even more tonally beautiful than their first release. Composed of frantic allusions to the lapse of religion and the deceptiveness of water, leader Win Butler's lyrics have taken a turn to the more pressing personal tribulations of desire and fear. With the addition of viola, bells, Regine Chassagne's hurdy-gurdy, mandolin and heart-wrenching organ, the arrangements are as full as aurally possible. And even better, the deluxe edition is lacquered in gratifying album art, for those who have had this a month in advance. | |
| Daniel Vella
- Mosta, , Malta |
| A slight disappointment after one of the top three albums of the decade, perhaps, but a resoundingly triumphant piece of work by any other standards. Neon Bible is a grand, epic and very admirable piece of work. Much more so than the intensely personal Funeral, here you have the sense that the band is making a self-consciously Big Statement. That this didn't result, as it often does, in preachy, pretentious nonsense is a testament to the band's strength. What this album lacks in comparison to Funeral is a certain fiery, vital energy, but it makes up for it to a great extent with a new-found measured gravity, especially on songs like "Intervention" and "Ocean of Noise". Ultimately, it's another masterpiece from the premier indie band of our age, and sure to be one of the top ten albums of the year. | |
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