Neon Bible

An album i had when it came out. With the kind of ambition, orchestration, catchy hooks and genre this should be something I really love. I just have never connected with it.

3.4 2x decent enough

Veldig bra oppfølger.

I want to like AF more than I actually do, this album in particular. Always ends up sounding more precious than urgent.

Vaca catch up

e had albums grow on me before. Sometimes it takes a couple listens, sometimes it takes a bunch, but I've never had an album grow on me as the album went on. If you were to ask me what my thoughts on the album were around the title track on my first listen, I probably would've said something like, "it's alright but I don't really get the hype for Arcade Fire." As I kept listening however, I really appreciating everything about it, especially the production. I understand why the production is a very controversial topic, as it may come across as overbearing to some, but I personally love how grand it makes the songs feel. If it was mixed to be lighter, I think Neon Bible would miss what makes it unique and engaging. Since I enjoyed this so much, I should definitely check out Funeral and the rest of Arcade Fire's early work in the near future. I'm certainly looking forward to it! 8/10 Favorite tracks: Black Mirror, Black Wave / Bad Vibrations, Ocean of Noise, No Cars Go

It's not Funeral by Arcade Fire, but then few things are

It was very experimental it felt like, very alt rock/pop. Not the greatest.

“They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.” The Incredibles (2004)

olipas random eikä oikein sytyttänyt. Muutama meni listalle mutta taustameluksi jäi aika pitkälti

Really interesting arrangements, shifting instruments, rhythm and dynamic changes

Absolutely nothing of substance here. What a letdown

3.5

Senare grejer är bättre

Always better than I remember.

Ends incredibly strong! Unfortunately it has a limp middle

Rock music that didn't really excite me that much.

Yeah, not bad, a bit better than some of the stuff I've been subjected to here, but nothing remarkable.

This album has a lot of sentimental value to me, something about the overall mood and songwriting is still so evocative after hearing it for the first time freshman year of high school. Intervention, Antichrist Television Blues, No Cars Go and My Body is a Cage still give me chills.

4.5/5

I really enjoyed this album. His voice reminded me a lot of Bruce Springsteen. Fun!!

bu tarz rock sevmiyom

I guess I'm getting these Arcade Fire albums in reverse chronological order. I really did NOT like The Suburbs as it reminded me of everything I disliked about the millennial indie genre. Nevertheless I gotta hear this or drop dead on the spot. I think Neon Bible is sonically a much better album than the sterile soft shit that was The Suburbs. There's definitely much more going on with its baroque and 10-20% brass instrument infused wall of sound-esque production. I do not find much of the lyrics or vocal delivery of Win "abusive piece of shit" Butler. His ex-wife, for the half of one song she sings on Neon Bible, has a much nicer voice and leads me to wonder why 1) Win is still in the band as of time of writing and 2) why is she not singing more. It's all confusing until you find out they're French Canadian and that's just how shit goes down in Montreal. Other than the production being bigger and not so neutral and sterile sounding, I still found it difficult to enjoy their songs as it would be ruined either by Win Butler's singing or the too cliche for its own good 4/4 everything on the same beat so you know how a song can predictably go. I don't mind that for pop music, but this is meant to be a 2000s rock album. The first two songs are passable, then the self-titled Neon Bible is where it falls apart with the slow indie stuff I dislike. After that the album is up and down and ends on a lackluster note. Please just give me a single Modest Mouse album over this, those guys know how to compose a song to be rhythmically catchy instead of adding 2-3 notes on a xylophone for three songs. Just because the album has a number of string and bass instruments on it doesn't mean you should let out all that cliche indie songwriting to it. Feels like waste of potential for the album to be even better. Other than that, whereas I thought The Suburbs was shit, I think Neon Bible is simply okay. It's definitely for the hipster millennial indie crowd that I only qualify for one of those three adjectives, but it is still just not for my music sensibilities of prioritizing rhythm over songwriting and indie kitsch shit. If I was a music critic trying to write a fair review, and those fuckers loved this shit in the 2000s for whatever reason, I'd say the album is a fine 3/5 rating. It's not meant for my kind of weirdo music taste, it's for your bland but surprisingly only a little bit more interesting than expected coworker. Maybe if these guys were American they would have more jazz in them and Neon Bible could be as good as those Iraq war shellshocked music journalists from 20 years ago. With my own dislike of the genre and seeing not as much change from The Suburbs as I liked, it's a 2/5, but a better 2/5 than The Suburbs, which was a much worse album than this IN MY OPINION. Join with me for the last of the trilogy of Arcade Fire albums when I get to check out Funeral next, which is what my Arcade Fire-enjoying friends say is their definitive best. Wouldn't even be surprised if they're right.

It was fine...just fine

Was OK. I've never been drawn to Arcade Fire, nothing really stood out to me. Including this.

I enjoyed this a lot more than other arcade fire albums. Some of the songs had a lovely, haunted quality about them. I should revisit this.

Solidly my second favorite Arcade Fire album. Tracks 1-4 still hit so hard. "No Cars Go" remains my favorite, even if I'm still partial to the EP version. Maybe more like 4 1/2 but hey.

cringey

It’s alright. Some good songs.

my body is a caaaaaAAAAGEEEE don't like this as much as some of their other stuff.

A very solid album. Keep the Car Running was immediately playlisted. I also heard a ton of Springsteen influence on this record.

very arcade fire, but not sure i needed more arcade fire on this list.

I don't get the hype, and never got the hype at the time, for this band. I don't find any of it particularly "orchestral" and I don't see why they've had multiple albums here. One can represent 00s indie fine

it is different from what I expected and what I am used to. some songs don't really stick, while others, such as "black wave/bad vibrations" (personal fav) are really powerful

It's ok.

Meh

This is the worst era of indie rock

Might wanna revisit

This was pretty bland and generic.

This is the second album from AF on this list I've listened to now. I was only vaguely familiar before listening to these two albums. But I generally seem to like this band fairly well it seems.

It’s enjoyable but not their best album

Was pretty indie not bad but just gotta relisten with more intention, heard guy does sexual assault which brought it down a star

Arcade Fire never fails to deliver complicated themes in an epic, emotional, and powerful way. Love this album, 10/10

I had heard from friends that this band is good and after sitting through this album, I can confidently disagree.

One of the favourite bands of a great friend of mine! Actually it is really good album! Full of emotion!

hm, fand das Album nicht schlecht, auch wenn der Sänger ne leicht wehleidige Stimme hat. Fand den Sound gut

Nicht mein Lieblingsalbum von Arcade Fire, aber wie immer tolle Musik, insbesondere Inrervention und My body is a cage.

Ist okay, aber werde kein Arcade Fire fan mehr

Some great tracks and lyrics. It's an acquired taste but I've aquired it.

My first reaction to hearing this album is that musically, it kinda sounds like an indie Springsteen. That's not the case lyrically, though, which is fine by me. I did think that it was an enjoyable record, nudging itself just within 4/5 territory.

Beste van z denk ik

The concept is interesting and sonically this band is quite good. However, most of these songs are kind of forgettable in my opinion, nothing really stands out and I’m not a big fan of the late 2000’s electronic music era

5/10

Een erg nostalgisch album/artiest voor mij. Zoals vaders vaak nostalgie blind zijn voor jaren 70/80 muziek, ben ik dat echt voor 2000s millennial “optimism”. Een hoop ‘HEY! HO!’s en lekker dramatisch. Dat pakt me wel. Niet hun beste album en alle nummers lijken op elkaar maar BOEIEE het werkt wel voor mij.

Solid indie rock entry, right up my street, but objectively I don't think its anything I’ve never heard before in similar bands.

Not there best, but a solid very listenable album with one my favourite tracks on it

I want to really like this band, but there's something missing. A bit plodding at times. I would like to hear more melody from them.

4,5!! Super eingängige Melodien, auch sehr vielfältig! Erinnert manchmal an David Bowie ein wenig! In Teilen fast schon episch. Macht auch wirklich gute Laune. Texte wahrscheinlich auch gut, muss ich mir in Ruhe anhören!

These guys are just kinda The Tragically Hip but worse.

Was hard to separate the art from the artist at first, but eventually enjoyed going back to this one. Still their third best album.

Such a great album, it really was a precursor to all of the indi pop/rock we get today. I really enjoyed it.

Very compact album with great highlihts!!! Very Indie

Unfortunately I do really like Arcade Fire. I haven't actually listened to this album in full, I only knew "Keep The Car Running" and "No Cars Go" from this it is worth noting that the frontman, win butler, was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women in 2022: https://pitchfork.com/news/arcade-fires-win-butler-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women-frontman-responds/

There is something strangely compelling about Arcade Fire. So much so that I have acquired five of their albums without ever feeling that any of them - "Neon Bible" included - are absolute essentials. Perhaps it is the band's inherent sense of drama that appeals, or the subtle whiff of post-punk lingering in the arrangements. You can catch the occasional flash of Sparks' theatrical art-pop in a few tracks, alongside the unmistakable swell of a Springsteen influence. Whatever the secret ingredient is, it remains intriguing enough to keep me coming back - perhaps in the quiet hope that one of their records will eventually hit me like a runaway train. It hasn't happened yet, but Neon Bible remains a thoroughly enjoyable listen regardless. Four stars. 1 "Black Mirror" (4/5) 2 "Keep the Car Running" (4/5) 3 "Neon Bible" (3/5) 4 "Intervention" (4/5) 5 "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations" (4/5) 6 "Ocean of Noise" (4/5) 7 "The Well and the Lighthouse" (3/5) 8 "(Antichrist Television Blues)" (4/5) 9 "Windowsill" (4/5) 10 "No Cars Go" (5/5) 11 "My Body Is a Cage" (4/5) Total - 43 Average - 3.9 405/1001 210/405 albums reviewed were new to me.

Fuck that opening song. Next three tracks all kinda bang. The rest of the way is good, meh, ooo nice, nah, sure, ugh, cool, it's alright. I think I liked it more than Funeral but I don't remember that album at all and probably won't remember this one either.

This is the second Arcade Fire album I’ve listened to on this list, and while I didn’t dislike it by any means, I’ve come to the conclusion that the band just isn’t for me. Listening to this, I was reminded of a 2020 interview with Black Country, New Road’s lead singer, Isaac Wood. He said that their goal as a band was to become the next Arcade Fire. While I haven’t really taken to any of their new stuff since that interview, I would say they’ve succeeded in their task, as their newer material is so reminiscent of the sound of this album - relatively nondescript Baroque Indie Pop. It does very little for me, though, and I found Black Country, New Road’s earlier work far more compelling.

This record is kind of bland considering the albums that were just around the corner.

Mid

Easily my favorite by the band. I find no fault here.

Wow. Definitely not my style and maybe they came out late from ‘80s pop. I kinda liked the title track, but didn’t get too far into it.

Neon Bible is a weird one, I love Funeral and The Suburbs but something about this record never appealed to me in the same way and this was the first time I actually listened to the album. I saw the band live on The Reflektor tour and the only song they played from this album was My Body is a Cage and it didn't really bother me that we didn't get more Neon Bible stuff. Intervention and No Cars Go are great but I do feel this sags a bit in the middle of the record and some of the magic of the first record just isn't quite captured here It's quite an unusual career trajectory to have your first album be brilliant, your second not quite as good, and then your third be back up to great again, but whatever Neon Bible's relative flaws it's a lot better than any music they are making now.

They did two good albums. This was one of them

Underrated Arcade Fire album.

Man, I just do not like arcade fire. There’s so much good in rock in the world, but this is not it. I could see an argument for including their first album “Funeral” but yikes. Not a fan.

I mean this album is fine. I don't mind listening to it but nothing I'm super excited about.

Not their best work but not unlistenable

Pretty boring, and increasingly annoying. Just move out if you hate it so much at your parents house! My body is a cage was relatable tho

Ganz nett, aber irgendwie anstrengend? Und weinerlich?

Absolute masterpiece

icl not a massive arcade fire guy

win butler you deserve to be slandered for being a sex pest but not for your very good music. i love canada

destul de bun. imi place ca e relaxant

Favorite track(s): Keep the Car Running, No Cars Go, My Body Is a Cage

Thought this was a fun listen. Not sure I'd come back to it but enjoyed the time I spent checking it out.

✓✓

I listened to this 3 times yesterday to see if I can figure out where I rank it vs. The Suburbs (it's obviously not in the same league as Funeral) ... I think I still like The Suburbs more, though Intervention might be the best song on either album. Anyway, it's peak Arcade Fire so it's great.

It's a solid album. I really only love two songs from it, despite already being a fan of the band. No Cars Go and Keep the Car Running.

This is a good album with a solid sound but doesn't hit the highs of an album like the suburbs, so makes me more inclined to not give it full marks.

nice

A more colorful album than funeral, but... idk, something is still missing for me. The songs feel weirdly hollow, like they're lacking some strong emotional backbone to keep them interesting. I also think that they lack detail or something to make them more memorable. Suddenly picks up tremendously with the last 2 songs, but it's a bit too little too late.

Good, nothing special.

I loved it at the time. It hasn't grown with me. It sounds too serious and portentous. The band just chug along, carried by the strings and production. Knowing about the singer's private life doesn't help either.

One of my favorite albums of the 00’s

Reminds me of a road trip. Very powerful, fleshed out songs. It sounds polished, but raw at the same time. Favourite: Intervention. Least favourite: Ocean of Noise.

If I had time to listen to this record more than twice it may have reached five star status. Impressed from the outset with the folk music earnestness of the songwriting meets surging drum patterns. On a second listen, the full thrust of power chamber music backing on several tracks impressed me. “Black Mirror” and “Black Wave/Bad Vibrations” soared at times due to the band members’ skills. Like a less funky LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire creates emotional pop songs that have layers of interesting elements crammed into them. What grabbed me was how integrated the orchestral arrangement, synths, driving drums and vocals were on most tracks. Win Butler’s voice does not instantly appeal to me, few do, but he sings with great conviction. I could be wrong, but I perceive that the subject matter seems to revolve around navigating the complexities of normal life when one is filled with angst. This mood gets a bit tiresome. By the closing tracks, “No Cars Go” and “My Body is a Cage” I was worn down. However Butler never falls into a woe is me whine. The swirl of backing instruments helps keep the focus from centering too much on the singer’s plight. For instance, “No Cars” pressed forward with its rising chorus and accordion sounds. The album lacks instantly memorable songs. I imagine no one song would dominate the fan favorite list. That is a sign of this album’s depth.

Etwas beliebig

The second studio effort from the not-so-little band from Montreal's Mile End that unexpectedly transformed indie rock forever. The sound on their sophmore effort is somehow even more sweeping and grandiose than the revolutionary debut, Funeral, but the sonic palette is also more restrained at the same time. Essentially, a select few elements from Funeral carried over to Neon Bible, and everything that did was blown up to stadium size. The songwriting and sequencing is much the same as it was on the debut as well, with the best songs bookending the first and last couple of tracks. In typical CD-era fashion, I find the album to be somewhat sunken in the middle as tracks blend into each other due to the more selective composition choices from the band. All this is to say not everything on Neon Bible hits, but the hits go very hard. Take the closer "My Body is a Cage" and the huge pipe organ crush of "Intervention," for example. Arcade Fire even proves they can still write more conventional indie songs as seen on "The Well and the Lighthouse" and the only song I recognized from this album "Keep the Car Running." The only song that really resembles what they had done before is "No Cars Go" with all its accordion melancholy and marching band buildup. It's a song that inches towards a Godspeed You Black Emperor type of buildup, which isn't completely far-fetched as funeral was recorded at Godspeed's H2T studio in Montreal. I feel like I've heard before, and not because it's the second car-themed song on this album. I don't have too much else to say about this except that this is a purer, more distilled Arcade Fire, a more straightforward interpretation of the band and the indie sound that marked a generation. Listen to Funeral for the full experience, and Neon Bible if you like only the biggest moments off the debut. Key Tracks: Keep the Car Running, Intervention, The Well and the Lighthouse, No Cars Go

Listens: 4 Standout Tracks: Black Mirror, No Cars Go, My Body is a Cage This is a 3rd Arcade Fire album on the list, and I think it's the one I like the most. Several really solid tracks on the album that I found both interesting and immediately catchy. At this point, half way though the List, I can pretty much tell within two listens of an album if this is an album I hate, am wholly indifferent towards, or thoroughly enjoy, and it usually boils down to: Do I want to keep listening to the album after two full plays? There aren't enough songs on this album right now to warrant a 5 from me, but I could see a retroactive 5 in the coming days and weeks if this album becomes a mainstay.

No Cars Go is quite good, but the rest of the album is a slog to get through. Had it as background music when working just to get through this one.

Альбом совершенно не произвёл какого-либо впечатления, но он не ужасен

The singer seems like he's going through some stuff. None of these songs excited me.

Big and Brash - put Fire on the map

I am not that much of an Arcade Fire connaisseur, but is this really an essential album. AF’s debut Funeral should be there, as should The Suburbs and Reflektor. This seems like the least memorable of their early work.

Super fedt album

Havde ikke hørt den her i for evigt fordi jeg plejer at sætte Funeral eller The Suburbs på i stedet. Det er egentlig en fejl! Det er en banger!

Really great album! All songs are super good.

pop demais, me lembrou imagine dragons. meio ruim mesmo. Definitivamente não é bom. Muito longe disso, na verdade. A única música que não é terrível é my body is a cage, eles até que conseguem fazer uma versão legalzinha e por isso, eles merecem uma estrela.

There’s better generic mid-00s indie rock tbh

I'm not sure about important or really doing anything new and exciting, but it's pretty dang good.

Critics seem to have confused "the popularization of indie rock" with stadium rock, which this is. It's fine. A couple of the songs meet its bombastic ambitions, but most don't and come across as overwrought and pretentious.

Cool album with some nice alternative rock songs. Saved one, but won't be coming back very soon.

this album slapped! never listened to Arcade fire before but I love the texture of their sound

album #105 this was pretty good! just didn't excite or pull my interest massively. nothing wrong with it, but nothing stands out either. ꩜ album rating: ★★⯪☆☆ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 984 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 49 ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 22 ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 83

All songs keepers. Why shouldn't it be a 5 star? 11 keepers out of 11 3 bangers [Intervention, No Cars Go, My Body is a Cage] 100% 5 stars

Definitely co-worker core album. Didn't hate it but boy did I switch off it as fast as possible when it was over.

solid 4.0. Meu favorito do Arcade Fire

'Keep the car running' and 'intervention' are great songs. They produce that euphoric Arcade fire high. Unfortunately this album isn't as consistently strong as either 'funeral' or 'the suburbs' so make this a decent but distant 3rd best in their catalogue.

I really liked The Suburbs. There was something about that album that really worked well the songwriting was good. I have tried to listen to Neon Bible several times it’s good but doesn’t have the same magic for me. Keep the Car Running is good. I enjoy that song. I also like No Cars Go. Those are songs I remember. The rest don’t stick with me. It seems like they were trying to hard on some songs but again it’s a good album that if I sat with it a few more times would probably become a favorite. Too bad I won’t devote that time because the lead singer is kind of terrible.

Arcade Fire is cool but this isn’t as good as Funeral or anywhere close to Suburbs. Still a fine album

ganda capa fogo amei ser adolescente com esse album vou ouvir outra vez i gueeeeeess 1. ganda pianinho no refrão do black mirror + cordas???? MIRROR ON THE WALL SHOW ME WHERE THEM BOMBS WILL FALL 2. órgão no inicio da intervention???....... ta tudo bem???? 3. ganda transição pro ocean of noise goddamn........ baixo gostoso 4. começo do lighthouse........ NOSTALGIA a voz dele a mudar para a dela, as cordas a ligarem tudo lindolindolindo RESSURECTED LIVING IN A LIGHTHOUSE AMO ESTA PARTE 5. ouvi o antichrist television blues antes de saber o que era um blues :,) (saudades de ouvir música antes de ser músico) you know that i'm a god fearing man </3 my lips are near but my heart is far away / tell me what to say opaaaaaaa 6. MY BODY IS A CAGE THAT KEEPS ME FROM DANCING WITH THE ONE I LOVE BUT MY MIND HOLDS THE KEY EXAAAAAATO

Not as good as the other Arcade Fire album on here, but solid.

Started and ended strong, but the middle part is more of the boring alt-rock sound from that era

There's a couple tracks in the middle that I don't care for as much. But on the whole, I think the album is great and I loved the progressions that each of the songs would go through

Am I an Arcade Fire fan? All signs point to maybe.

Alas, I fear I will never be an arcade fire andy. This lands at a rousing 6/10 despite some neat moments, including the very Bruce Springsteen-esque (Antichrist Television Blues).

After three Arcade Fire albums on this list, I’m starting to think I don’t really like Arcade Fire that much. I’m not sure if it’s Win Butler’s voice specifically or the general vibe of the music but I just don’t get the popularity. I enjoy a couple songs out of their entire discography and outside of that they just kinda seem mediocre?

This sounds like the soundtrack for a suburban white teen coming-of-age movie. A bit too cheesy to my ears, though I can definitely see the appeal for those who can buy into it. Standouts: Black Mirror • Intervention

Hmm, I thought this was building into something unique and interesting but I have determined it was not. The first few songs got me excited that there was some kind of overall theme and that the album would open up, but instead it just kept doing the same stuff. They threw the organ in there once in a while to make you perk up but I've heard Funeral and I know they can make a more interesting album than this.

It's okay

I like keep the car running and intervention - I did just finish MASH though, so I'm a little biased in that regard. (antichrist television blues) is amazing as well although it's a little unsettling. Been googling the meanings of these lyrics, definitely want to hear more of this artist and probably listen to a few of these again.

nice enough

1/ intro sympa, sans plus on dirait muse 2 2/love l'instru,jdois m'habituer z la voix, on dirait les banners 4 3/soothing c'est mimi 2.5 4/ ghost??? L'intro à l'orgue omgomg et j'aime les lyrics 5 5/muse coded, neutre, rien ressenti vraiment 2 6/fun intro, ambiance cool très cool 4 7/cool song but mid bridge est sympa 2.5 8/ ça me fait penser à the cure 2 9/'I don't wanna live in America no more' is so relevant 10/ home by Edward Sharpe coded so good the live version must be amazing 11/ that organ. Ok gros slay En gros l'album mélange la voix de muse, le style de the cure avec une inspi de 'home' je capte pourquoi il est tant aimé 3.5/5

Buen álbum, buena producción, lo escucharía de nuevo

Bland and uninteresting

Decent but I was generally ready for it to be over

The muddy, distant mix saps some of the power out of it, but "(Antichrist Television Blues" cuts through the muck

Overall, this album feels like mega church music. There are a lot of dramatic musical elements, but the execution of these elements in some way feels soulless and shallow. Arcade Fire's sound feels dated to me. I don't enjoy Win Butler's vocals or lyrics, but that's just me. Songs I enjoyed were Black Wave/Bad Vibrations and No Cars Go. 2/5

This is a really enjoyable album!

I liked it, probably needed to listen to it a little more, good emo vibes

Great voice, I'll probably listen another album

This is the only AF album that I can listen to, the others are so average

This is my third Arcade Fire album from this list, all given to me this summer (I don't know how many more there are). The music is indie rock with a grand sound helped along by organ and violin. I liked "No Cars Go" a lot. The rest of it I found better than the other two albums.

An album too locked in to its self-importance. I don't like the male vocalist nearly as much as their female singer. A few pretty good tracks, all things considered

Grooves

honestly a little bit pretentious, “i’m not like the normies” type of thing. which means i would have loved it as a teenager and maybe if i didn’t know anything about win butler i’d like it today as well

Arcade Fire were a massively important band to me when I was in middle school, but even then I think most of the middle of this album made no impression, and it still doesn't. And now they have, uh, devolved. But I like the first 4-5 songs a good deal still.

Good

This was a great listen containing biblical themes and elements such as despair, faith, peril, and persistence. I enjoyed how the spiritual elements were combined with more humanistic and everyday perspectives within our everyday world, much like in the Antichrist Blues song. Just pretend you know nothing about Butler and you will see what I mean. Musically speaking, I also enjoyed hearing the grandiose and classical instrumentation clash with conventional arrangements like talented backup singers, guitars, and rhythmic drum beats. It made for a particularly enjoyable indie rock record. Definitely a classic that needs to be heard.

The suburbs is a 4 for me but this just wasn't really hitting the same spots

precursor to stomp clap music

this is an album that you appreciate for what it brings to future artists but listening to it now is...not good. It is dull but idk. In 2007 it was probably cool for some millennials. 2.

This was i guess inoffensive but largely dull.

I did not like this.

Working for the church while my family dies // Don't want to work in a building downtown - two lines I loved to think about as a 12 year old I am thrilled at the number of 2000s/2010s albums we've had in here recently and this was huge for me in 2007. This was where I first became aware of Arcade Fire, probably with No Cars Go. I felt like this was such a great moody winter album and I love the bombast (I remember how everyone felt about Arcade Fire last time so I'm not expecting much shared love). I think this was considered a less successful follow up to Funeral but I like how much darker this was and that it went deeper into religion and society (and whether cars go) (even though I still wouldn't really know what any of the songs are about. (Antichrist Television Blues), Intervention, No Cars Go, Black Wave/Bad Vibrations and Windowsill all sound so good and should be played as loud as possible.

There’s no feeling behind any of this and so it plods along uninspired

This is going to be a first time listen for this old timer as I kind of quit buying new release albums in 2004. Overall the album is fairly cohesive around it's theme of "Neon Jesus, undeliverance, uncertain future of America, GW Bush and the politcal cristian right", but there's only a few stand out tracks. I applaud the theme and the ideas expressed way more than I can admire the execution of it. Maybe it's "just of it's time" and doesn't have the legs to be great all time album now, 19 years later. 1. "Black mirror": OK, like the Charlie Brooks TV series? OK. (Oh, the TV series was named after that song? Wow, didn't think it was so inspirational. 2. "Keep the Car Running": first impression very positive 3. "Neon Bible": Really getting into the theme here. Good 4. "Intervention" : As above. 5. "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations" ? Losing the theme in the first part, while the second part gets back on track I'm underwhelmed and wouldn't listen to it again. 6. "Ocean of Noise": Intrigued enough again 7. "The Well and the Lighthouse": decent enough song even if taken on it's own. 8. "(Antichrist Television Blues)": Chanelling Springsteen here - and I'm not being disparaging. 9. "Windowsill": Same, Springsteenish 10. "No Cars Go": This is it folks, this is the only song I've heard before. 11. "My Body Is a Cage": Potent song that kept fans enthralled no doubt, but the performance is a little weak. Do yourself a favour and listen to Peter Gabriel's cover version of it so you know who I'm comparing The Arcade Fire to as far as performance and engagement that earlier and older acts I prefer to listen to can achieve, this a a good test of apples to apples using the same song. As per my first sentences I ducked out of the new music world 2004-2012. Maybe I didn't miss much.

me gusto a medida que fue avanzando el album, me dio vibes a the cure no se pq

Never really knew anything about Arcade Fire before this except for their general popularity as classic indie rock. Pretty neat, very grandiose, didn't grip me initially but might with repeated listens

Athemic rock just doesn't hit my sweet spot I'm afraid.

i cant say anything bad about it, but also nothing was really outstanding. It was really neutral

Feel good rock

I liked it, but I almost preferred every other song. Like some were great, some were not great. Casey 2.75

Meh. Not bad. Not great either.

1. "Ocean of Noise" 2. "No Cars Go" 3. "My Body Is a Cage"

Solid indie. Good band / good album. 4

Did anyone else levitate during "Intervention"? Or even "The Well and the Lighthouse"? No? Just me? OK

No puedo ser imparcial porque es de mis bandas favoritas. Para mí es uno de sus álbumes más particulares, quizá el más “oscuro” (si no me equivoco, llegaron a grabar en el órgano de una iglesia). No creo que sea el mejor para empezar con la banda pero vale mucho la pena. No Cars Go tiene que ser uno de las mejores canciones en la vida para escuchar en vivo y cantar a todo pulmón.

Another album that I was hoping would be pull me into Arcade Fire, but this band just doesn't land for me. I do like the song 'Keep The Car Running', but i drifted in and out on this one too.

Oooo the most modern album so far. Exciting! Wow I’m catching up on all of this Arcade Fire drama. There’s a divorce happening. But the discourse is pointing towards nobody caring about the music because it’s boring and Win Butler’s behavior hangs a dark cloud over the discography. Anyway, Keep the Car Running is a very nostalgic song for me. I’m anticipating yet another 3 though because the rest of the album is quite middle of the road. What was with the obsession with glockenspiel in this genre and time period? Thank you!

As a millennial, I spent a lot of time listening to Arcade Fire. I was so excited when Neon Bible came out, but it mostly make me want to go back and listen to Funerals. That has not changed.

The sounds of the great recession. You know exactly what you're getting with this one.

Solid enough throughout, but I think it hasn't aged particularly well. Sounds much more generic now than it did when it came out, which I guess says something for their influence in a way.

LOVED this one. I thought I would recognize at least some songs, with them being Canadian, but I surprisingly didn't. Nevertheless, I really enjoy their sound.

not my vibe but cool

More pixies/springsteen influence than I expected; there are ok songs here but I think this band is overhyped

¿aún queda espacio para la fe en un mundo lleno de pantallas?

3,5 ⭐️ if I could give it. Enjoyed it quite a lot, has a lot of interesting sounds/instrumentals. But it’s like a little bit self indulgent and the lead singer doesn’t always work for me

Heard before?:❌️ Will listen again?:❌️ Millenial optimism forgot to take it's antidepressants. Endearing.

Pretty interesting darker sounding indie. Very cool guitar sound on Keep the Car Running that got me invested, but the opening Black Mirror was also a neat track to set the tone of the project. This explores themes topics that still sound fresh to this day, the aforementioned Black Mirror's take on technology especially rings true in the modern era. Did drag a it towards the end though for me.

Intervention and my body is a cage were both pretty s Good Overall: 3.5

Wow!! I love their music!! It picks up or slows down right at the perfect time. So good!! New favorite band. I can't believe I never heard any of their songs!!

Good album from Arcade Fire that are maybe mostly cancelled these days

This was okay. I think I liked it less the deeper in I got. First impression was “this is dope” — very 2000s and I’m here for it, reminds me of modest mouse. I like the mystical vibe around it. As it went on, it became very monochrome — all the songs bled together, it all felt like the same thing with different words. Definitely some good sounds though, and it seems this isn’t their best work, so I’d be interested to see a couple other albums.

4.4

It’s wild to me that this is the 2nd or 3rd album that I’ve seen on here from these guys . They are Canadian and you could ask the whole country to name their top 10 Canadian bands of all time and you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would say these guys. That is no knock to them at all. It’s more of a crime I guess. This is another good one by them. Bravo

Nothing exceptional here, sounds like any pop rock record from the time

Love Arcade Fire, and this album in particular. Some incredibly arranged emotional bombast!

A major step forward, from an already perfect debut.

Was looking forward to this but I was pretty disappointed. Nowhere near as good as funeral

Neon Bible is the privileged, college-educated man's Born To Run. I love it.

“No Cars Go”, all-time banger

I completely forgot this album was between 'Funeral' and 'Suburbs' messing up my Mega Album idea (that 5 from each is the best mega album possible). This one has never done it for me. Reminds me of Flat Bruce Springsteen... "No Car Go" and "Keep the Car Running" were the best but not in my top 10 Arcade Fire songs. Loved seeing them live though!

Nice album. For me not the best of Arcade Fire. I wonder, why this is choosen for the list.

*siiiiiiiiiigh...* I used to be a really big Arcade Fire fan, and their run from Funeral to Reflektor remains exceptional. Neon Bible is a towering reflection of society post 9/11 (though it remains very relevant today) that can occasionally feel a little too "we live in a society", but it is one that manages to mostly wield a massive biblical sound and big themes without collapsing in on itself. Win Butler, what the fuck?

I wasn't really expecting to enjoy this album, and to be honest, after hearing the opening track, 'Black Mirror', I really didn't think I'd like it. I just found it a bit bland for an opening track, and that's arguably one of the most important songs on an album. I think the two most important tracks are the first and last. The first one sets the scene and expectations for the listener, and the last chooses how the listener will leave the album and what emotion they will feel when the album is finished. This wasn't worthy for the first track, in my opinion. 'Keep The Car Running' definitely kept me interested in what the rest of the album had to say... I really enjoyed it. 'Intervention' has such a beautiful introduction with the organs, and to be honest, it is gorgeous throughout. Having not listened to Arcade Fire before, this really was an interesting listen. I actually ended up loving this album. Yeah, it may have had a bit of a weak start in my opinion, but the rest was incredibly strong. I loved the mix of mood throughout; all of them work really well. Favourites: Windowsill Intervention Keep the Car Running Ocean of Noise

Pish! How do these albums keep making the list?!?!

i thought this band was bland and overrated when they first debuted, and it turns out i still do. i can't believe a guy who dressed like he thought he was jimmy darmody from boardwalk empire would put out a boring album. i would say "ocean of noise" was the best tune on here, but in an album full of unremarkable and unmemorable songs it gets lost.

good spooky soundtrack for a halloween party or maybe even a movie??

geese if they were good

Really liked most of this. (Antichrist Television Blues) stood out. I always forget about this band. I need to do a deep dive on them. 3.5/5

3.77

Not a fan

has the grand, dramatic sound Arcade Fire is known for, but I can not help but agreeing with rolling stone and Uncut magazine. Somehow distant and overblown. I’m torn between 2 stars or 3. 2 feels low, with 3 normally being my benchmark for whether or not I’d buy this on vinyl; but if I did actually own this I just would never elect to listen to it.

Boring indie slop, lyrics are awful, just uninspired and super forgettable. Like its fine?

I was too young to be around for the grunge era, and the early 2000s were just dogshit for bands/good music. I think that Arcade Fire were one of the only bands worth listening to during this era. They had 3 really good albums, and Neon Bible really captures the exhaustion people had with nearly a decade of war following 9/11. Good album, good band.

Great album. Nice vibe. Doesn’t go as high as the follow up album, but this album is great on its own merit.

The Netflix series Dark has a feature towards the end of each episode where there is a montage of what is happening with various characters running while an appropriately-chosen song is playing. There was one song I liked, and when I looked it up I was doubly surprised because not only was it sung by Peter Gabriel (who I assumed I didn’t like) but also because it was him covering an Arcade Fire song (who I know I didn’t like). The song was “My Body Is A Cage”, the closer from Neon Bible. Listening to it here in the original version for the first time, I was perhaps wrong about Peter Gabriel; less so about Arcade Fire. Admittedly I have a bias against the band. I saw them in a loft on St Laurent before they got big; I lived literally next door to them after they did. I didn’t think highly of them either musically or as people even before it came out that Win Butler was a sex pest. Musically, there was a point where indie rock as a loosely defined genre got big enough that bands could hope to play venues much larger than bars or clubs, and those bands just ended up being bland as fuck. I’m thinking The Arcade Fire here, The National, probably some other things that are escaping my mind at the moment.

I think it's a perfect album an all-time FAVE I should say

I feel like I should break out into a run during some of these songs. Solid.

Great voice but I only liked a couple of the tracks.

It's a 3.5 for me, because I know I enjoyed my time with the album, but I don't really remember any of the songs.

There is no perfect album (except maybe Disraeli Gears) but this is very close. Really good and an incredible time capsule of 2007. Saw these guys do a tiny show at the Beachland Ballroom in March 08 for the Obama campaign. Nothing has ever been more 2008.

Doesn't elicit an emotional response in me the same way Funeral did. I think this is because Neon Bible feels less consistent in tone from song to song.

Take me back to jr. high emo fr

Mid. Meh. Angsty.

This is like alt rock for drama kids. I'm not sure about it. I like how the songs build I guess.

Kinda regular, somewhat dispassionate offering relative to earlier records.

It’s funny that this record, essentially a critique American televangelist culture written by Canadians, would become the blueprint for a decade of ersatz Americana pop featuring glockenspiels and singalongs about how much we love ma and pa. I can forgive it because it’s a very good record, but it’s hard to separate from the legion of imitators.

Not so bad, a bit "backgroundy" but pleasant enough

mediocre hipster bs

I remember being disappointed with this after their debut, which IMHO was quite a bit better. On this fly by, I'm still not going with it but 'Windowsill' and 'My Body is a Cage' did stand out so maybe a few more visits are required. For now still a 2 though.

This rocks out and is catchy.

A bit repetitive hearing basically the same song for 47 minutes straight, but at least it’s a pretty decent song.

Man, I just cannot get into this band. They are so blase'.

I don't get it, i don't like this, it's very boring. And thanks to another reviewer the lead singer is trash.

bro ts sucks 💔

My favorite Arcade Fire album. Took a few listens to grow on me when I first heard it years ago, but several of the songs (Ocean of Noise, Windowsill, The Well and the Lighthouse) get stuck in my head regularly.

redelijk

Following Arcade Fire's breakout album Funeral, Neon Bible was always going to have a bit of a mountain to climb to have the same impact and whilst I think it's still a great album it doesn't quite have the highs to match. There's some really fantastic tracks here (it helps that it opens and closes well) but Arcade Fire's take on Springsteen-esque Americana doesn't always work.

Not bad, had an interesting sound. Not like a standout to me.

Glad I listened to it although it isn't my cup of tea. The only track I truly enjoyed was the final track, "My Body Is A Cage".

This album is off-the-charts pretentious, lyrically laughable (seriously, every lyric sounds like a reject from the Style Boyz’ “Incredible Thoughts” from Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping), and repetitious in arrangement. Unfortunately, it is also emotionally overwhelming, melodically brilliant, and—above all—powerful. This is the band’s best album, in my humble opinion, because for once their Voice of a Generation schtick was matched with arrangements that, despite their saminess, practically kick you in the chest with how colossal they are. Do you like choirs? String sections? An ear-shattering pipe organ? Then you’ll fall in love with this record. You’ll hate yourself in the morning for it, but you will, and you won’t be able to help yourself. Best track: “My Body Is a Cage”

Äänikuva oli paikoitellen tosi iso, mutta vähän pitkästyttävä muuten.

Booring!!! ⭐️⭐️

Solid. You know, kind of brilliant and all that.

Красиво, по сути красиво

esta bueno pero ni. osea no me parece nada de otro mundo, ni me genero mucho.

The layering of folksy indie sounds both muddle and amplify the background of most songs, granting a dark ambient tone to the album that is hard not to visualize in tandem with the album cover. The instruments and vocals feel as if they're coming from vast unseen places, too far to truly focus on a single part of the sound without getting washed back into the totality of it. In it's most climactic moments the album uses this to build really impressive tension. On their subtler songs they use the sound to make a moody trance that lulls you into relaxation. Across this entire scale they prove how intentional each decision made in the production of this album was. As a listener, I have been cursed with the inability to give much of a fuck about lyrics, SO, an album like this that holds so much emotive force in it's sound is deeply appealing. But ya, this album fuckn rocks...4/5 Fav Songs: The Well and The Lighthouse, (Antichrist Television Blues), No Cars Go Least Fav Songs: Windowsill

First when I saw it's arcade fire in the morning, immediately thought "clear 5 - liked them, been to some concerts - check". Started listening, first track starts as a reminiscence to "back from USSR" at the beginning of the white album... Double check... Then it goes on and everything sounds like the same mush, it does not hold up to the novelty of Funeral. A very good 3 star

So many Arcade Fire albums on this list. 🤔

Jedan veoma dosadan album kod kojeg ipak mogu prepoznati neke kvalitete. Oni su definitivno s vremenom postajali bolji bend.

7/10

This feller is a rapist right?

Like it 3/5

This really does sound so close to something I would like… so very close.

Synes Arcade Fire har blitt ufortjent retconned de siste åra i sammenheng med furore rundt Win og det faktum at alt de har gitt ut etter Reflektor har vært ganske ræv. Imo så har de aldri laget noe som er så erke-indie som Funeral, men Neon Bible henger ikke så langt etter. Hypersentimentaliten er den samme, men det er et mindre ambisøst album. Funeral høres, som med flere sterke debutalbum, ut som noe de involverte brant inne med; et budskap de måtte få ut. Om Neon Bible lider av noe, så er det at det åpenbart ikke var like viktig hva de hadde å si som at de skulle klare å leve opp til det som sannsynligvis var skyhøye forventninger etter at Funeral toppet alt av indie lister i 2004. Har jeg hørt mye mer på Funeral enn Neon Bible? Utvilsomt. Men når jeg hører Neon Bible igjen nå, så synes jeg ikke egentlig det er noe særlig dårligere; det er bare mindre viktig -- både for bandet og for meg.

Har ikke hørt så mye på AF. Har bare tenkt at de er en variant av The Killers, og det er de jo på noen måter. Jeg kjenner til The Suburbs best, men Neon Bible overrasket meg positivt utover det fete orgelsoundet de kjører. Ja, det høres ut som sjablongen til indierock, men det er jo fett? Favorittene er Nick Cave-låta "Ocean of Noise" og Bruce Springsteen-bangeren "Antichrist Television Blues"

Vou ser breve, peguei esse disco em um momento delicado. Chorei ouvindo, mas o choro já estava entalado. Ele propiciou o lançamento dessas emoções que já existiam. Até mesmo relatei algumas das letras, mas é provável que eu só ouvi o que queria ouvir. Mas no final das contas, apreciar arte é sempre isso, não dá pra desvincular nosso viés pessoal daquilo que interagimos. Tudo está na mente, e é tudo emocional. Não existe objetividade, em nada. Uma vez eu chorei num Uber e senti que tava pesando demais o clima aí eu fiz uma piada tipo "é cada louco que pede Uber nessa cidade né" e aí ele deu uma risada amarela e disse "fica tranquilo irmão, relaxa, não tem problema" e eu meio que vi Deus naquele Chevrolet Onix 5/5

Pretty "eh" indie album.

An OK album to do your chores, and work, I got it on my headphones and was nice, not too invasive or too weird, nice one

I just like this as friend

THIS is the band that everyone fawned over a decade ago when they won a grammy? This band? Could not care less about anything I just listened to. It was inoffensive, so they get a 3, but it's a 2.5

They are incredibly good. Every record by Arcade Fire deserves to be on this list.

This was so good, from the opening song to the closing song it was all just fucking perfect.

Not for me

Ranks right up there with Suburbs, but it's not worth a 5.

Better than the last time I visited arcade fired still haven’t found a sound that makes me wanna stay for multiple play through, but we’re getting somewhere I had a good opening and a solid closing. It was just the middle that was like what are we getting to?

Hace menos de una semana estaba feliz por descubrir esta banda, hoy con este álbum me decepcionaron, no es que sea malo, pero esperaba más

Gear: ZMF Auteur Classic LTD Shedua Artwork: 📖🪩🌃 Production: 🫧🤏🐜 Music: 🎩📣🫠 Rating: 🧋🧋🧋/5

Good Good entertaining stuff.

En litt sterk 2'er. Stadionrock.

Quite giod

Not my type

This is ok - I loved the first AF album and then felt like they swung so hard into indie schlocky campiness.

Heard Before? Oh yes. Funeral arrived just at the right time to make a significant impact on me, for reasons that are hard to pin down. Maybe you just had to be there. So I kept up with Arcade Fire until the terrible "Everything Now". Notes: - dense, claustrophobic production isn't always my favorite, but it perfectly suits these songs. - very happy they led the glockenspiel revival. too bad it burned out so fast. - the arrangements are my favorite thing about this album. horns, strings, synths, organ, piano, backing vocals, etc are well used and vary from track to track. - i always say this, but it's true. yet another group seriously underusing their superior female vocalist. plus more French would be fun. - sequencing is exemplary even if it drags in the middle. more albums should start with the outlier and end with the two strongest songs. - all in all, much better than i remembered, but still lacking the impact of the debut. Verdict: A perfect example of sophomore slump - more of the same (possibly better) songs but without all the freshness and innovation of the debut. Listen Again? I doubt it, but it was interesting to hear it again after writing it off years ago. But yes, this list only needs Funeral.

Solid album. Not my favorite by them, but solid nonetheless. Top song Keep the car running

Мені Neon Bible подобається більше, ніж дебютний. Не дуже поширена думка, звичайно. Тут є дві з топ-5 моїх улюблених пісень гурту: No Cars Go та Intervention. Тексти хороші. Також є трохи філерна середина. Але початок та кінець альбому на мій смак дуже гарні.

Навіть коли я дуже щільно слухав АФ, цей альбом був моїм найменш улюбленим з їхньої дискографії (це звісно десь приблизно часи рефлектора, бо все що вони випускали потім мені взагалі не заходило). На трієчку.

not my thing

Starts off really strong but falls off as it goes until it's just okay. 3/5

J’ai pas accroché

Bang.

It’s not their greatest album, but for a wee while Arcade Fire could do no wrong, this has its really strong points like Keep The Car Running, Ocean of Noise and The Well and the Lighthouse but even the other tracks aren’t bad! It’s just behind The Suburbs and their best, Funeral.

I don’t get the hype.

I don’t particularly like Arcade Fire. I mean, sure, I did love Funeral in my college years, and I did think The Suburbs was a pretty great album, but nothing about them drove me to listen more. Neon Bible completely surpassed my expectations. Even my Arcade Fire hating boyfriend came by mid-listen and said, I like this album, who is this? This album is absolutely among their best and might even be something I listen to again.

Is it Bowie? The Boss? Broadway? Nah. Is it bad? Mostly.

It’s hard for me to understand how cold this leaves me when their debut was, and probably still is, one of my favourite albums of the period, and their gig in Glasgow (touring the debut) is one of my top five gigs. This just doesn’t do it for me. Pity. Really love Ocean of Noise though.

The most interesting thing about Neon Bible for me has always been its namesake, a novel written by a 16-year-old about a boy trying to escape the suffocating repression and hollow religiosity of his small town with only one kind person in his life as respite, a book which was rejected by publishers at the time. A similar fate befell his follow-up, A Confederacy of Dunces, as well, the frustration of which led him to end his own life. His mother pushed for it to be published after his death, and it became a cult classic, with Neon Bible seeing publication in 1989 against her wishes due to a legal dispute from their money-hungry extended family. But with this album, I’ve always felt that Arcade Fire bit off more than they could chew. The ingredients are so compelling – written and recorded in an abandoned church that the band had bought and fixed up, tackling those same themes of social alienation and fighting to escape an oppressive small town life only to find a world equally if not more disappointing, corrupt, empty, co-opted than what you had just run from – ending on a note that what you’re imprisoned in now is your own flesh. But as much as you can intellectualize it, I just don’t think it does that ambition justice. Musically, it only hits the highs it promises on a few tracks – first of which is Ocean of Noise, still gorgeous though I prefer the Calexico cover they released as a b-side, Intervention, and Windowsill. The rest, though memorable, still falls flat for me, never reaching the sublime highs they found on that first record. 2000s indie might have hit the mainstream here, but it was never going to stick around if this is the best we could do.

I used to really like this, but don't feel the same way these days. Is it missing something Funeral had? Or have I just grown apart from this band? TBC...

Really good. I actually have this on CD but haven't listened in ages. I think it suffers from the fact that Funeral and the Suburbs are better/more accessible, but I enjoyed it a lot more this time around than I remember. Intervention is a sick track though and my go to for testing new speakers or headphones because that opening wall of sound from the organ is soooo cool and it's a goos test of a system to see how clearly the bass and guitars can cut through

It was fine. Not memorable

Jeg synes, det er et udmærket album. Ikke såååå meget min lyd, det bliver lidt for flimsy til tider, ved ikke præcis hvad det er... Synes det er en OK 3'er

Uh, jeg er simpelthen ikke glad for Arcade Fire, og det her album ændrer ikke rigtig på det. Jeg synes forsangeren er sådan lidt skabet, og numrene er lidt for kedelige og lidt for lange. 2.1

Bitter, paranoid, cold, melodramatic, earnest. Some of the songs go big and hit: No Cars Go, Keep the Car Running, Windowsill, but mostly wild catharsis is held back and I kinda like this band mainly for the wild catharsis.

All the trademarks are here: expansive wall of sound, questioning lyrics, great hooks. No one song stood out from the pack, but I enjoyed the listen.

Really enjoyed this

Strangely I don’t think I really ever listened to this album which is odd as I really liked its predecessor. I wish I’d made more effort as I really liked this one too. Slight departure from Funeral but as a whole album it was very listenable.

Not as strong as funeral but a few high points. Far less variance than other bands of their genre.

Much like the other album we’ve had, vocals and melody wise it’s hard not to like them to a point. Musically it’s all just a bit noughties meh though.

This record is kinda meh. Annoying bell sounds and whiny sounding vocals kinda derail the experience. Favourite Track(s): My Body Is a Cage Least Favourite Track(s): Intervention, (Antichrist Television Blues)

very strong 4

2000s indie rock band with a lot member. This quote sums it up..."at its overblown worst Neon Bible is one of those records that takes itself too seriously to be taken seriously." Win Butler thinks he's Roger Waters on The Wall. The songs are over-produced yet the instruments and background vocals sound muffled and distant. I just don't find anything unique about this band. As I listen I keep thinking it sounds like other artists. Why there is more than one album from this band on this list is beyond me.

Arcade Fire's second record has a lot of bluster and attempted Big Dramatic Moments but the freshman philosphy student-lyrics poke a pin in the whole affair. This disc also lacks the weirdness that gave their first record its personality.

Arcade Fire are the first artist to appear on here for a second time 🎉 Another solid output from them. Great album. 8/10

It was alright

Favourite Songs: Black Mirror

average. not my jam

Run of the mill mid 2000s fedora-donning, red and black flannel hipster nonsense. Some passable lyricism, strong instrumental on the organ. But its mediocrity left me unbothered.

Absolutely nothing of substance here. What a letdown

Have danced around listening to Arcade Fire for awhile for no particular reason just ships passing in the night. This album has a few songs that I enjoyed quite a bit but a lot more of the Indie Rock that didn't quite catch me. It's got a lot of slow ramping songs with well placed church organ and heavy bass lines to drive the themes home. Maybe too much was too slow and the pace clashed with the style of music but more misses than hits.