Arcade Fire's Neon Bible

A Quick Look By Miss Fitz


If you’re alive and of a certain age and musical inclination, you’re probably aware that Arcade Fire have recently put out an album. What you may not know is that their Bible just may inspire a generation.

Neon Bible eloquently tackles everything from politics and social reform to civic duty. It not only covers these subjects but it grabs them by the balls. This is not an album for the faint of heart. It’s divisive—you’ll either be a believer or dismiss this Bible as bunk. There is no middle ground here.

The album is slow going and it’s intense, but Arcade Fire are no tease. If you stick with them, the climax will blow you away. Neon Bible is proof that the band’s debut album was no fluke and that their sound is maturing. The music continues to be a glorious hodgepodge of handclaps, harmonious vocals, and eclectic instruments. Appropriately, one of the songs is entitled “Ocean of Noise.”

But this is not an ocean of senseless noise. Listen to it. Let it sink in. It's worth the wait.

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Woodpigeon's Songbook

A Quick Look By Miss Fitz
As I sit in the dark surrounded by muffled whispers, the anticipation rises. A group of musical miscreants assembles in the shadows with guitars, accordions, and flutes to form… an orchestra?

You never know what to expect at the concert of a new indie band. Sometimes, you luck out and get a surprise—an unforgettable performance.

With a small but strong following, Woodpigeon has exploded into one of Canada’s biggest indie music hopefuls. Fronted by Mark Hamilton, this sunny sounding group has just signed with Universal and seems poised to become the next nabob of the Canadian indie music scene.

The group’s new album, Songbook, has the sexy undertones of what real up-and-coming Canadian music should be. The songs have titles like, “A Sad Country Ballad for a Tired Super Hero,” “Death by Ninja,” and “Home as a Romanticized Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always and Forever.”

While their lyrics should leave you sarcastically melancholy, it’s hard to resist the temptation to tap your foot along with the tambourine and peppy handclaps. If argyle had a soundtrack, this would be it.

Woodpigeon’s Songbook is an album of edgy lyrics wrapped in the romantic, lighthearted ponapoly of sweet pop rock. Even a virgin listener would be hard-pressed to denounce this album’s subtle cavity-inducing excellence.


Woodpigeon can now be heard on CBC radio 3, and seen in The R3 30 Charts next to big names like The Arcade Fire and Buck 65.

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Film Noir

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Meet Miss Fitz

Miss Fitz ('Mis Ph!-'fitts) is a post-collegiate, pre-professional twenty-something freelance photographer living and working in Calgary, Canada. She enjoys dancing, drawing, bombshellism and shenanigans. She will shoot you.

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The Doll's House

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