Neon Bible is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was first released on March 5, 2007, in Europe and a day later in North America by Merge Records. Originally announced on December 16, 2006, through the band’s website, the majority of the album was recorded at a church the band bought and renovated in Farnham, Quebec. The album is the first to feature drummer Jeremy Gara, and the first to include violinist Sarah Neufeld among the band’s core line-up. Neon Bible became Arcade Fire’s highest-charting album at the time, debuting on the Billboard 200 at number two, selling 92,000 copies in its first week and more than 400,000 to date. Being released within a month of similarly successful releases by The Shins (Wincing the Night Away) and Modest Mouse (We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank), Neon Bible was cited as an example of the popularization of indie rock. Neon Bible received widespread critical acclaim. Publications like NME and IGN praised the album for its grandiose nature, while Rolling Stone and Uncut opined that it resulted in a distant and overblown sound.
Tracklisting
| Position | Title |
|---|---|
| A1 | Black Mirror |
| A2 | Keep The Car Running |
| A3 | Neon Bible |
| A4 | Intervention |
| B5 | Black Wave / Bad Vibrations |
| B6 | Ocean Of Noise |
| B7 | The Well And The Lighthouse |
| B8 | (Antichrist Television Blues) |
| C9 | Windowsill |
| C10 | No Cars Go |
| C11 | My Body Is A Cage |
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Release Information
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Bible |
| Format | 1× Vinyl LP |
| Label | Sonovox Records |
| Catalog Number | 1724447 |
| Notes | LP is double 180-gram audiophile quality in gatefold sleeve with three sides of music and an etching on the fourth side. Printed card inner sleeves. Side three has a locked groove in the run out repeatedly playing the same, short piece of music. Recorded and mixed during 2006 at “the church” in Quebec. Additional recording was done at Win and Régine’s house, the St. James Anglican Church in Bedford, Québec, the Église St. Jean Baptiste in Montréal, as well as in New York and Budapest. Additional mixing was done at Olympic Studios in London. The name Neon Bible, from a novel by John Kennedy Toole, is used with permission of Grove Press, Inc. c/o Macintosh & Otis Inc. Tracks listed sequentially on release. Runouts are etched. |
| Discogs URL | Arcade Fire - Neon Bible |