Arcade Fire: Neon Bible Review
Neon Bible by the Arcade Fire was released March 5th, 2007. I received my pre-orders copied from Merge Records a week late. This album reached #1 on Canadian and Ireland charts as well as #2 in the USA and the United Kingdom. As you can see Neon Bible had very successful sale numbers.
Okay for the special edition that I received I got the album, as well as these booklets that were made by the band artists. I really didn’t like these booklets and I was over them in about 30 seconds. I did get a Neon Bible posters and a Merge Records sticker that is currently decorating my crappy room.
Onto the album, some of the reviews on MetaCritic were solid but some of them referred to Neon Bible as not being as good as Funeral. Yes Funeral was a great album but I’ve had a chance to listen to Black Mirror, Keep the Car Running, Ocean of Noise, Antichrist Television Blues etc. for over a month to know this is just as good of album as Funeral and even better. I think this album requires time to listen to and most who review albums can only give very little of their ears.
This album mixes in the vast array of instruments they use like they always do. In addition their songs lacking more of a sad tone have more a stronger, soothing and more intelligent tone. The spiritual lyrics involved on Neon Bible (obviously) really have given me something music has never really done before. It preaches god in an emotional manner. I feel like I’m discovering something new about the album each and every day and I’m glad I dished out the money to buy this album even if I shouldn’t have bought the special edition. 5 stars out of 5.
All the songs are the album are great but here is a random song I’ll upload so you can have a listen. All the songs are my favourites but I really love the lyrics:
“I don’t want to live with my father’s debt
You can’t forgive what you can’t forget
I don’t want to live in my father’s house no more”
Have a listen here:
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