Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
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Free Music Review: Damn this is good!
Hit: 4 Stars
I hadn't heard a lot of Arcade Fire before I got this CD but I'm definitely getting their other releases now. I think I like them so much because Win Butler sings a lot like Ian McCulloch from Echo and Bunnymen who I love. If you're that kind of thing, you'll like Neon Bible. Free Music Review: Just a notch below Funeral
Hit: 4 Stars
It was inevitable that the Arcade Fire wouldn't be able to live up to the hype. Not that they were incapable, but that the expectations were at a staggering height (like "Phantom Menace" big). But that doesn't qualify it as a disappointment. Instead, the band changes up their dynamic and forgoes the frequent epics in favor of sturdier songs and suites. The emotion is far darker this time and while the passion hasn't ebbed, the sound is more frequently but not always streamlined. It's a tighter record on the whole, and its lesser moments are never dull (admit it: "In the Backseat" on Funeral could be pretty wearisome). The biggest surprise is the lack of slow and great builds, towering crescendos, swells and releases, and sudden explosions. There are tempo and melody changes to be sure, but they're much subtler, far more natural. As a result, while there are only one or two songs on here that aren't great even after the first listen, none have the towering scale and intense drama of epic crowd-pleasers like "Neighborhood #3" and "Rebellion."
But there are plenty of gems here: "Keep the Car Running" is one of their catchiest and most straightforward rockers, "Intervention" rolls and rumbles for a while before soaring, "No Cars Go" gives the listener the passionate release they've been expecting (and the best place to go for Funeral fanatics who whine about the new sound), and "The Well and the Lighthouse" is a compact epic, running the gamut of sound and emotion in a tidy four minute package. Most glaring flaw: just as Funeral closer "In the Backseat" is lacking, so is this album's final track, "My Body Is a Cage." Why didn't they just end it after the cathartic "No Cars Go"?
Best cuts: "The Well and the Lighthouse," "No Cars Go," "Keep the Car Running," "Intervention," "Black Mirror," "Ocean of Noise," "(Antichrist Television Blues)," "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations," "Windowsill"
Free Music Review: Darkness At The Edge Of Funeral
Hit: 4 Stars
Lots of fans seem to think that Neon Bible is a letdown from Funeral. I disagree. Neon Bible is just as terrific, if not moreso. Of course Funeral was more upbeat but Neon Bible is, for all its gloominess, just as exhilarating, -- inspiring, -- magnificent, -- O yes and damn hard not to dance along with! And who would have thought that Win Butler & co. were listening so much to The Boss?
Arcade Fire puts everyone else out there (in the contemporary pop/rock/etc. arena) to shame. What is Arcade Fire to me? Arcade Fire for me is the sole reason that I believe that good music is finally BACK. Lord knows the radio has been nothing but pure sniveling cripe (Modest Mouse, Shins, etc. etc.) for too long.
Why the four stars? I don't like the new version of "No Cars Go" too much. I also don't like any album having 11 songs of standard length. 47 minutes? Campaign for a double album anyone? Also, reviewers on Amazon toss 5 stars at just about anything. --But don't get me wrong. This record is the business.
Free Music Review: Fantastic
Hit: 5 Stars
A really fun album that takes what the Arcade Fire did in Funeral and matured it to an amazing album!Free Music Review: Neon Bible
Hit: 5 Stars
not often you find a cd where you like more than 3 or 4 songs i thought the whole cd was good much better service buying new then from inuendo