Take em to church!
TWO/NEON BIBLE/ARCADE FIRE
Halloween weekend 2004. Some castle on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Maine. It was here that Lucy O. caught a glimpse of a little Canadian band that could. Sweeping, majestic, guest-list only, show of a lifetime. 60 or so people.
"Ladies and Gentlemen we are Arcade Fire."
And so it began. Not just for Lucy O., but the rest of the world as well, who would slowly but surely fall truly, madly, deeply in love with this band's grand statements, lush arrangements, and big ideas. We all, like Lucy O., hung on to every word, analyzed every visual, admired every arrangement, and had no qualms waiting three years for this, album number two, the Neon Bible. With album number one, Win Butler and Co. found themselves surrounded by death, using music to help them cope, maintain, and find hope in a world that, despite its faults, still needed to be held onto and fought for. With Neon Bible, that world has grown bleaker, cold even. Death may not be as prevalent, but there is a loss of innocence, and a sense of doom that seems to be bubbling on the horizon, ushering in Black Waves and Bad Vibrations. The only saving grace? These words. This music. The belief that there is a place where no cars go, a vial of hope between the click of the light, and the start of the dream. Beneath that organ, above the clouds, within these harmonies. Side by side, hand in hand. This collective, their ideas, these compositions. They will set your spirit free, offering hope, this ocean of noise and the Neon Bible.
KEY TRACKS: Keep the Car Running/Black Wave/Bad Vibrations/No Cars Go
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