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[DrJimmy]

www.neonbible.com

a website featuring a toll-free number (1-866-NEONBIBLE or 1-866-636-6242) which leads you through a mock phone answering system. it's sort of like a conceptual art piece, with no mention of Arcade Fire, but if you dial the right extension, you get to hear the album version of "Intervention"

this version of "Intervention" was played on BBC Radio tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...owe/index.shtml

^^^
listen to Thursday's show and fast-forward to about 17-18 minutes in.


"Neon Bible" is a reference to the title of John Kennedy Toole's (A Confederacy of Dunces) first book, which he wrote at the age of 16.

[ryan]

Over the tellyphone it really sounds like Conor Oberst.

[UselessRocker]

Over the tellyphone it really sounds like Conor Oberst.

It really does. Conor Oberst with a church organ.

[yancy]

That bad? I'll wait for a proper leak.

[DrJimmy]

when Funeral was first released, half of the morons writing early reviews on amazon.com said that AF was ripping off Bright Eyes. don't disappoint me, guys. don't be an amazoner.

[ryan]

Hah! Whether you want to admit it or not, he has always shared the warble/scream thing with Conor. Still, it's fucking impossible to really make out anything on this telephone broadcast.

[yancy]

Little known fact: Dr Jimmy is in the band.

[HandBanana]

They both sing in overly affected accents. I dotn buy for a second that that is "just them singing" Sounds false to me.

[DrJimmy]

Little known fact: Dr Jimmy is in the band.

yeah, you can't miss me: i'm the slightly over-emotional one.

[theremin]

"Neon Bible" is a reference to the title of John Kennedy Toole's (A Confederacy of Dunces) first book, which he wrote at the age of 16.

aka, the only reason I opened this thread.

[sKinnY]

this is good.

[DrJimmy]

aka, the only reason I opened this thread.

good for you. now be a good boy and go away.


posted by a good friend of the band's on http://www.saidthegramophone.com/ which is offering a crappy rip of "Intervention"


"Intervention", a song from the forthcoming Arcade Fire album, was played tonight on BBC Radio 1 by (the abominable) Zane Lowe. It features the pipe organ from the St-Jean Baptiste church on Rachel Ave in Montreal (i.e. around the corner from my old house). It also features glockenspiel.

It seems the album will be called Neon Bible. There is a website and a magical phone number to call (1-866-NEON-BIBLE [tag on an 00 if in the UK]). Once there you are met with peculiar telesales voicemail and various peculiar options. Press "7777" to listen to "Intervention". Press other buttons to leave a comment, to enter their "$10,000" contest (where the grand prize seems to be a subscription to a newsletter), or - if it's Tuesday 3:00-3:30 EST, - to talk to "a representative".

If you leave your name and email address you will indeed be subscribed to a mailing list. The first email seems like one of those strange, literate random-word spams, and is in fact a quote from The Book of Lamentations.

I heard the band mixing "Intervention" when I was in Montreal last month and I have to say that the radio rip is terrible, doing no justice to the awesome lows-and-highs that make the song. Win's spoken in the past about how much he dislikes having incomplete material getting passed around, but in this case it's authorised material - just with crappy fidelity.

"Intervention" is a rock song, gale-force. It's a song of resignation, frustration, fatigue, and awe. Awe is all over this album - terror, love, and so much want.

[Wolfgang]

I was half expecting Slayer.

[HandBanana]

Not a bad song

[Saskadelphia]

Oh, I like this a ton.

Though of course, hearing the legitimate version is key, because the semi-lo-fi production of Funeral should hopefully be behind them. Not that I want the new disc to sound slick, but they have to translate that live energy onto record even more, now that we've all seen them.

[scarymuppet]

Excited to hear the full album version. I was disappointed when I heard that radio performace a year or so ago, as it was so low-key. This song is going to sound so mammoth on the album.

[Chronodiggity]

So good. Are you sure it's called Intervention though? Lowe says it is, but they had a B-side called Intervention at the beginning of this year. Edit: I think its the same song.

[Mantana]

[petras]

Elated to hear this song doesn't suck. No sophomore slump in evidence here.

[moins]

I remember hearing them play this on KCRW almost a year ago. I like it then and I love it now with the church organ and backing vocals. Whats the rumor on a release date for Neon Bible?