Arcade Fire – Neon Bible


Label: Merge Records – MRG285

Format: Vinyl, LP, Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Etched

All Media, Album, Gatefold

Country: US

Released: May 2007

Genre: Rock

Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock


A1 Black Mirror  4:13

A2 Keep The Car Running 3:29

A3 Neon Bible 2:16

A4 Intervention 4:19

B5 Black Wave / Bad Vibrations 3:57

B6 Ocean Of Noise  4:53

B7 The Well And The Lighthouse  3:56

B8 (Antichrist Television Blues)   5:07

C9 Windowsill 4:16

C10 No Cars Go 5:43

C11 My Body Is A Cage   4:47


Recorded At – St. James Anglican Church, Bedford, Québec

Recorded At – Église St. Jean Baptiste, Montréal

Recorded At – Hungarian National Radio Studios

Mixed At – Olympic Studios

Lacquer Cut At – Metropolis Studios

Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 15266

Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 15300

Arranged By – The Arcade Fire*

Arranged By [Orchestra] – Owen Pallett (tracks: A1, A2, C2), Régine Chassagne (tracks: A1, A2, C2)

Artwork – Tracy Maurice

Brass – Andreas Stolzfus, Colin Stetson, Edith Gruber, Geoffrey Shoesmith, Jake Henry, Laurent Ménard, Margaret Gundara, Pietro Amato

Cello – Mélanie Auclair

Conductor [Choir] – Peter Drucker

Conductor [Orchestra] – István Silló*

Contractor [Orchestra Contractor] – Csaba Lokös*

Copyist – Daryl Griffith

Edited By – Michael Paert

Engineer [Recording] – Denes Redly*

Lacquer Cut By – Frank*

Mixed By – The Arcade Fire*, Mark "Spike" Stent* (tracks: A1, C2), Markus Dravs (tracks: A3, B1), Nick Launay (tracks: A2, A4, B2 to C1, C3)

Performer [The Arcade Fire Are] – Jeremy Gara, Richard Reed Parry, Régine Chassagne, Sarah Neufeld, Tim Kingsbury*, Will Butler*, Win Butler

Producer – The Arcade Fire*

Recorded By – Markus Dravs, Scott Colburn

Recorded By [Assistant] – Alex Droomgoole*, Dave Emery*, François Chevallier, James Ogilvy*, Mike Feuerstack*, Sharon Levinson, Tom Hough

Violin – Marika Anthony-Shaw, Owen Pallett

Written-By – The Arcade Fire*


LP is double 180-gram audiophile quality with three sides of music and an etching on the fourth side. The LP also includes a coupon for a free MP3 download of Neon Bible. Has "www.mergerecords.com" and "www.sonovoxrecords.com" on the second inner sleeve. Later repress omits this text.


Recorded and mixed during 2006 at "the church" in Quebec.

Additional recording was done at Win and Régine's house, as well as in New York and Budapest.


The name Neon Bible, from a novel by John Kennedy Toole, is used with permission of Grove Press, Inc. c/o Macintosh & Otis Inc


Tracklisting ascends numerically regardless of disc sides.


Lacquer cutting and RTI credits are identified in runouts.