Monday’s Tune: Arcade Fire

Aracde Fire – Intervention

Greetings!

This week’s tune is by Montreal, Canada based indie rock band Arcade Fire, fronted by the husband and wife duo Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.

‘Intervention’ is the second single released from the band’s second full-length album, Neon Bible, from 2007.

From Wikipedia:

Following Aracde Fire’s tour in support of their first studio album Funeral (2004), the band bought the Petite Église in Farnham, Canada, previously used as a café, church and a Masonic temple… The band spent the latter half of 2006 recording a majority of the album there. They additionally recorded in Budapest, Hungary where a Hungarian orchestra and a military men’s choir were used.

…The arrangement and composition of the album… lead to a sound of dread and dissonance, and the band used a number of less common instruments to achieve this sound; in addition to the orchestra and choir, Neon Bible features a hurdy-gurdy, mandolin, accordion and pipe organ.

…The artwork for the album is a photograph of a six-foot neon sign that the band commissioned for use while on tour. In the photograph used for the cover, the lighted Bible is caught in mid-flicker.

Enjoy!