Neon Bible
by Arcade Fire
- Type: Album
- Released: 6 March 2007
- Label: Merge
- Country: Canada
- Length: 46:59
- Community rating: 4.04/5 from 29 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Recorded in a church, Arcade Fire's second album is darker and grander than their debut. 'Neon Bible' uses pipe organs and orchestral arrangements to explore themes of fear, surveillance, and apocalyptic dread. It is a majestic, anxious record for uncertain times.
Genres
Descriptors: orchestral, theatrical, dystopian, dynamic, expansive
Tracklist
- Black Mirror (4:13)
- Keep the Car Running (3:29)
- Neon Bible (2:16)
- Intervention (4:19)
- Black Wave / Bad Vibrations (3:57)
- Ocean of Noise (4:53)
- The Well and the Lighthouse (3:56)
- (Antichrist Television Blues) (5:10)
- Windowsill (4:16)
- No Cars Go (5:43)
- My Body Is a Cage (4:47)
Credits
- Win Butler - Member
- R茅gine Chassagne - Member
- Richard Reed Parry - Member
- Tim Kingsbury - Member
- Jeremy Gara - Member
- Will Butler - Member
- Howard Bilerman - Member
- William Butler - performer [the arcade fire are]
- Dan Boeckner - Member
- Micah Nelson - Member
- Owen Pallett - arranged by [orchestral arrangements]
- Tracy Maurice - artwork, design [packaging design]
- Andreas Stolzfus - brass
- Colin Stetson - brass
- Edith Gruber - brass
- Geoffrey Shoesmith - brass
- Jake Henry - brass
- Laurent M茅nard - brass
- Margaret Gundara - brass
- Pietro Amato - brass
- M茅lanie Auclair - cello
- Peter Drucker - conductor [choir conducted by]
- Sill贸 Istv谩n - conductor [orchestra conducted by]
- L艖k枚s Csaba - contractor [orchestra]
- Katherine Cram - coordinator [gospel singers... thanks... for your assistance in coordinating these sessions]
- Michael Paert - coordinator [orchestra and choir... session coordination], edited by [orchestra and choir... session... editing]
- Daryl Griffith - copyist [orchestra and choir sessions]
- Fran莽ois Miron - director of photography [album cover shoot]
- Hadji Bakara - effects [treatments]
- R茅dly D茅nes - engineer [orchestra and choir sessions... recording engineer]
- Jean-Luc Della Montagna - film producer [album cover shoot: production assistance]
- Liza Rey - harp
- Maggie Fost - layout [assistance]
- Morgan Charles - layout [assistance]
- Frank Arkwright - mastered by
- Arcade Fire - mixed by, Primary Artist
- Mark Stent - mixed by
- Markus Dravs - mixed by
- Nick Launay - mixed by
- Renata Morales - other [album cover shoot: costumes]
- Paul McKee - other [album cover shoot: thank you to: for set-up coordination and assistance]
- Chloe Vice - other [album cover shoot: thank you to:]
- Elle Nunnerley-Paquette - other [album cover shoot: thank you to:]
- Jenny Craig - other [album cover shoot: thank you to:]
- McGill Synchronized Swim Team - other [album cover shoot: thank you to:]
- Michelle Adelman - other [album cover shoot: thank you to:]
- Olivier Groulx - other [website by]
- Vincent Morisset - other [website by]
- Sarah Neufeld - performer [the arcade fire are]
- Timothy Kingsbury - performer [the arcade fire are]
- Christophe Collette - photography by [album cover shoot: still photographer]
- Scott Colburn - recorded by
- Alex Dromgoole - recorded by [... assisted by]
- David Emery - recorded by [... assisted by]
- Fran莽ois Chevallier - recorded by [... assisted by]
- James Ogilvie - recorded by [... assisted by]
- Michael Feuerstack - recorded by [... assisted by]
- Sharon Levinson - recorded by [... assisted by]
- Tom Hough - recorded by [... assisted by]
- Marika Anthony-Shaw - viola