Annotation
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Venue Information
Recorded and mixed: "the church", Québec, Canada
Additional recording: Win Butler and Régine Chassagne's house; St. James Anglican Church, Bedford, Québec, Canada; Église St. Jean Baptist Church, Montreal, Canada; Unknown location, New York, NY; Hungarian National Radio Studios, Budapest, Hungary (Orchestra and Choir)
Additional mixing: Olympic Studios, London, UK
Mastering: Metropolis Studios, London, UK
Orchestra and Choir sessions:
Session coordination and editing: Michael Pärt
Orchestra contractor: Csaba Lokos
Copyist: Daryl Griffith
Gospel singers (tracks 8 & 11) session coordinator: Katherine Cram
Thanks: Ven. Dr. Brian A. Evans, Archdeacon of Bedford (assistance during St. James Anglican Church recording); Église St. Jean Baptist Church, Montreal, Canada (use of organ)
Album cover shoot:
Production assistance: Jean-Luc Della Montagna for NúFilms
Director of photography: François Miron
Costumes: Renata Morales
Thanks: McGill Synchronized Swim Team; Jenny Craig; Elle Nunnerley-Paquette; Chloe Vice; Michelle Adelman
Miscellaneous
Website: Vincent Morisset; Olivier Groulx
General thanks: Scott Rogers (Quest Management); Liza Shaw (friendship love)
Name Neon Bible from novel by John Kennedy Toole, used with permission of Grove Press Inc. c/o Macintosh & Otis Ltd.
Annotation last modified on 2009-02-13 00:20 UTC.
Tracklist
| CD 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Title | Rating | Length |
| 1 | Black Mirror
| 4:13 | |
| 2 | Keep the Car Running
| 3:29 | |
| 3 | Neon Bible
| 2:17 | |
| 4 | Intervention
| 4:19 | |
| 5 | Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
| 3:58 | |
| 6 | Ocean of Noise
| 4:54 | |
| 7 | The Well and the Lighthouse
| 3:57 | |
| 8 | (Antichrist Television Blues)
| 5:10 | |
| 9 | Windowsill
| 4:16 | |
| 10 | No Cars Go
| 5:44 | |
| 11 | My Body Is a Cage
| 4:47 | |
Credits
Release
| art direction and design/illustration: | Tracy Maurice |
|---|---|
| additional design/illustration: | Morgan Charles Maggie Fost |
| photography: | Christophe Collette (photographer) |
| additional recording engineer: | François Chevallier Alex Dromgoole Dave Emery (engineer) Michael Feuerstack Tom Hough Sharon Levinson James Ogilvie |
| recording engineer: | Dénes Rédly |
| mastering: | Frank Arkwright (UK mastering engineer) |
| guest brass: | Pietro Amato Edith Gruber Margaret Gundara Jake Henry Laurent Ménard Geoffrey Shoesmith Colin Stetson (Canadian-American saxophonist) Andreas Stolzfus |
| guest cello: | Mélanie Auclair |
| guest viola: | Marika Anthony-Shaw |
| guest violin: | Owen Pallett (Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist & vocalist) |
| conductor: | István Silló |
| chorus master: | Peter Drucker |
| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/922306 [info] |
|---|---|
| ASIN: | UK: B000MMLODS [info] UK: B000MMLOE2 [info] |
Release group
| associated singles/EPs: | Black Mirror Intervention Keep the Car Running / Broken Window No Cars Go |
|---|---|
| covers: | Neon Bible by A Giant Dog (US punk rock band) |
| part of: | 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2008 edition) (order: 3) Polaris Music Prize nominees (number: 2007 – Short List / Courte liste) (order: 16) Shortlist Music Prize Nominees (number: 2007) (order: 60) Juno Awards: Alternative Album of the Year (number: 2008: winner) (order: 71) Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: pub_2011-07-18 (number: 75) (order: 75) Grammy Award: Best Alternative Music Album nominees (number: 2008) (order: 88) Music Canada Certified Gold Albums (order: 353) |
|---|
| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/master/5410 [info] |
|---|---|
| lyrics page: | https://genius.com/albums/Arcade-fire/Neon-bible [info] |
| reviews: | https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/x6cz [info] |
| other databases: | https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/arcade_fire/neon_bible/ [info] |
| Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000562187 [info] |
| Wikidata: | Q1630983 [info] |
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