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Neon Bible is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It was released on March 5, 2007 in Europe and March 6, 2007 in North America by Rough Trade and Merge, respectively. Originally announced on December 16, 2006 through the band's website, a majority of the album was recorded in a church that the band bought and renovated. Frontman Win Butler has stated in an interview that the album title is derived from him being particularly attracted to the image and that the album sharing a name with the John Kennedy Toole novel The Neon Bible is coincidental.
Neon Bible was Arcade Fire's highest debuting album on the Billboard 200 at number two. Being released within a month of similar debuts by The Shins' Wincing the Night Away and Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Neon Bible was cited as an example of the commercialization of indie. Critics offered the self-produced Neon Bible mostly favorable reviews. Publications like NME and IGN praised the album for its grandiose nature, while Rolling Stone and Uncut said that it resulted in a distant and overblown sound. Many also compared Neon Bible to Arcade Fire's previous album, Funeral, with opinion on the better being generally split.







