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Arcade Fire detail new album, set release date

Contributed by inagreendase. Posted by Chris on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at 6:00 PM (EST)

The Arcade Fire have announced the release of their second album this spring. Titled Neon Bible, the album will serve as the follow-up to their breakthrough debut, 2004's Funeral, and is slotted for a March 6 release date on Merge Records

The album's title references the 1990 book by Pulizer Prize-winning author John Kennedy Toole, which chronicles the story of a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s, where the highly religious townspeople look down upon him because of his family's inability to pay church dues.

Additionally, the band has released a few media sources in anticipation of the album. You can check out the Neon Bible website, or the phone number (which Punknews.org has yet to call - so do so at your own risk/expense) 1-866 NEON BIBLE.

Neon Bible

1. Black Mirror
2. Keep The Car Running
3. Neon Bible
4. Intervention
5. Black Wave/ Bad Vibrations
6. Ocean of Noise
7. The Well and The Lighthouse
8. (Antichrist Television Blues)
9. Windowsill
10. No Cars Go
11. My Body Is A Cage

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Someone (January 10, 2007)

What?

Someone (January 10, 2007)

this band is very eh.

Wentz_Equals_Death (January 10, 2007)

don't waste your time on that BS; you could just call 1-866-NEON BIB and get the same thing

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Bryne (January 10, 2007)

You mean don't waste your time on that LE, right?

Someone (January 10, 2007)

what's with punknews being a week late on all news lately

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eazus (January 11, 2007)

how about it? I'm tired of reading about shitty bands going on tour or getting signed to labels that aren't going to last longer than a year.

Someone (January 10, 2007)

One of my top 5 most anticipated releases of the year.

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eazus (January 11, 2007)

agreed. easily. along with the stooges and a possible jeff mangum release.

dev (January 10, 2007)

Hipsters everywhere are stoked...

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Someone (January 10, 2007)

if by hipsters, you mean fans of good music.

Someone (January 10, 2007)

owned

Someone (January 10, 2007)

owned? yeah he really showed him whos boss.

Someone (January 10, 2007)

If by boss, you mean getting cockslapped by tony danza.

Someone (January 11, 2007)

Aah hahaha!!! Hi-oh!

Someone (January 10, 2007)

Buddyhead douchebags are not

killdefenses (January 10, 2007)

that site is WOW

Someone (January 10, 2007)

should be pretty good.

-iconoclast

Someone (January 10, 2007)

Basically, you call the number, a voice recording tells you to dial 7777, then the you listen to one of their new songs in very poor quality.

Rob.

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Someone (January 10, 2007)

is there a hidden message in it that will give you 7 days before you die? LOL

Someone (January 10, 2007)

haha

MattRamone (January 10, 2007)

Who the fuck cares? This band is like Conor Oberst with even more instruments. I wish they would break up or die in a bus fire or something.

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Someone (January 10, 2007)

Wishing death upon people for creating music you don't like.....that's nice.

Someone (January 10, 2007)

Wishing death upon people for creating music you don't like.....that's nice.

Someone (January 10, 2007)

You act as if people don't wish death upon others on this site on a daily basis.

kjb83 (January 11, 2007)

Good point. Still doesn't justify it though.

Someone (January 10, 2007)

Most pretentious band to come out of Canada. Grab your scarfes its gona be a cold spring!

Someone (January 10, 2007)

that number is free and the song is awesome

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davepwnt (January 10, 2007)

Too bad the quality is shit.

PretentiousLikePitchfork (January 11, 2007)

if you go to their website under win's scrapbook there's a much better version

davepwnt (January 10, 2007)

A fucking phone number?

ryanbolger (January 10, 2007)

a confederacy of dunces is a fantastic book.

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Someone (January 10, 2007)

I didn't really like it. I can't really say why, either. I guess the humour just didn't really rub off on me.

ryanbolger (January 10, 2007)

that's how i felt the first time i read it, but that all changed the second time around. same thing happened with "catcher in the rye" for me.

canaandrumz (January 11, 2007)

I was going to mention something about COD if no one else did. Someone should make a record about that book instead.

Someone (January 11, 2007)

Yes! A great book... I think about my need to release my own valve all the time.

But did I miss where this reference came from?

Someone (January 11, 2007)

i don't get this. the arcade fire are nowhere even close to punk...i don't even know anybody who likes punk and likes them...what's the connection?

also, most overrated debut, and most overrated follow-up.

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Someone (January 11, 2007)

i'm punk and i like them. now you know one person.

Someone (January 11, 2007)

A chick and some dude were walking up to people waiting in line for the Jeremy Enigk show I was at a few weeks ago with a digital camera; passing out fliers for the Neon Bible and saying there were supposed to "get 20 pictures for some new band". Was really strange.

marcusd (January 11, 2007)

if this album is half as good as funeral it will be one of the best albums i have ever heard

Someone (January 11, 2007)

What?! No Cars Go again??

That song was on their EP

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