But Arcade Fire is a big band. And a magazine profile can only do so much, so we've assembled mini-profiles of all seven members. Delve into violinist Sarah...

"This album has even more threads that hold the songs together," says co-writer Regine Chassagne. "But I'd rather people figure it out on their own. They can do it. They're intelligent." Here's a few of the threads: Neon Bible is filled with images of mirrors and a debased culture that reflects us. Taken as a whole,...

The Arcade Fire's dark second album, Neon Bible, had many starting points: the war in Iraq, the church in Montreal that the seven-person band renovated and moved into, the sudden ascent that took the band from obscurity to performances with...