So and So
Quite good but not as good as I expected and how it is rated...maybe keeping on listening I will change my mind. Maybe.

At last, something fresh!
Recently discovered this band and I must say this is something special! At age 48 I have heard so much stuff and over the past years I thought I had just gotten too old (as it would be presumptuous to claim that modern music is going nowhere fast). So for those that listened and still listen to Prefab Sprout, Joy Division and even New Order, for those that enjoyed Echo and the Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here, well, check out these kids from Canada. It might just blow you away. Yes, the production is not always perfect, but these issues are just dwarfed by the great lyrics and the excellent timing of each element in the compositions. If you want to try it out with a download of a song or two, I suggest that you go for:
1. No cars go
2. Keep the car running
3. Antichrist television blues
4. Windowsill
Each of these songs have different elements to them and the lyrics on Windowsill just freaked me out ("you can't forgive what you can't forget")!
Enough already, have to get back to my iPod and this "urgent" music.

Improvements
*Review from a Classic Rock fan
I really felt that this album is much more diverse than Funeral. Whereas Funeral seemed to have an overall sound to it, this album makes it all much more interesting, adding a lot of organ and orchestral pieces. It starts and ends wonderfully, with "Black Mirror" in the beginning setting the stage for what is to come, and ending with "No Cars Go" (featured in Top Gear) and "My Body Is A Cage," which I loved and is my favorite song off the album. The structure of this song alone makes it great, but it is so much more than that, just like with the rest of the album.

Vocals, Check; Arrangements, Check; Instrumentation, Check; Lyrics, Hmmmm.
Funeral sounds like a dance party compared to Neon Bible. All the elements that made Arcade Fire such a blast of fresh air are still firmly in place. What other group does the interplay between vocals and everything-into-the-mix instrumentation nearly as well? It's hard for me to think of one. But I've been hearing white guys sing about how awful things are and the coming apocalypse for pretty much four decades now and it is getting very old. Lyrics like "Mirror, mirror on the wall/Show me where the bombs will fall" (Black Mirror); "A vial of hope, a vial of pain" (Neon Bible), "Every spark of friendship and love/will die without a home" (Intervention) and others like them (and almost every song on Neon Bible offers a new example) have been stale for decades. Trying to be clever by dressing them in allusions to John Kennedy O'Toole does nothing to freshen them. It just shows off, as the one guy who made and makes such sentiments fresh once said, "useless and pointless knowledge."

More complete Album than Funeral
After hating on this CD when it came out because it wasnt like Funeral, I finally took a listen and realized how amazing it is. It is a complete album that you should play from start to end to get the full feelin of each song. Funeral was more raw and didnt seem to have that tie between each song. Best tracks are 6, 10, and 11.

Their live show is dope as well.