Neon Bible (Arcade Fire Album)

Neon Bible is the second studio album from the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released in 2007. It was an eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the band's 2004 debut, Funeral, which was an unexpectedly huge success. Neon Bible featured the same grand-scale sound for which Funeral was praised,

Fast Facts

1. Release date: March 6, 2007
2. Record labels: Rough Trade Records (U.K.), Merge Records, (U.S.)
3. First announced on the band's website on December 16, 2006
4. Song No Cars Go is a new version of a song previously released on their 2003 self-released debut EP
5. Debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200
6. Its sales performance seen as a sign of the commercialization of indie music

Track Listing

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"

Production History

Though the majority of Neon Bible was recorded in a renovated church building (once a Masonic temple) in Quebec, the band also recorded in Budapest, Hungary. They used both a full orchestra and a men's military choir while recording there.

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