by Arcade Fire
Release Date: 05 June 2017
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Virgin EMI
£15.99
Arcade Fire Neon Bible Limited Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
How do the Arcade Fire follow-up not just one of the best debut albums ever, but possibly also one of the best indie albums of all time? Well, Neon Bible is a good place to start. After the success of Funeral, expectations were high for a follow up. But really, how could any band be expected to repeat that level of achievement twice in a row? And who can fault a band for setting their own standards so high? If there's one criticism of Neon Bible (named after author John Kennedy Toole's first novel), it's that it's not Funeral. But any other band would consider Neon Bible a towering achievement, for the simple reason that it is. "Keep the Car Running" displays all of the trademarks of the Arcade Fire's best work, building to a crescendo by adding layers and layers of synths to a deceptively simple tune. "Intervention", meanwhile, is easily the biggest-sounding song they've yet recorded, exploding with pipe organ over strummed guitars, strings and a choir. Occasionally, lead singer Win Butler risks being lost behind all of this noise, particularly as his voice has lost some of the strained intensity that made Funeral so affecting (and in fact, on "(Antichrist Television Blues)" he even sounds a bit like 80's-era Springsteen). But there's no denying that Neon Bible is a stellar album, from a band worth discovering. --Ted Kord
Featured Tracks:
01) Black Mirror
02) Keep the Car Running
03) Neon Bible
04) Intervention
05) Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
06) Ocean of Noise
07) The Well and the Lighthouse
08) (Antichrist Television Blues)
09) Windowsill
10) No Cars Go
11) My Body Is a Cage
Release Date: 07 April 2023
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Sony Music
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Sony Music
£26.99 £19.99
Release Date: 19 March 2021
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Sony Music Classical
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Release Date: 02 November 2018
Format: EP Vinyl
Label: Sony Music CMG
£18.99
