The Arcade Fire have announced the release of their second album this spring. Titled Neon Bible, the album will serve as the follow-up to their breakthrough debut, 2004's Funeral, and is slotted for a March 6 release date on Merge Records

The album's title references the 1990 book by Pulizer Prize-winning author John Kennedy Toole, which chronicles the story of a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s, where the highly religious townspeople look down upon him because of his family's inability to pay church dues.

Additionally, the band has released a few media sources in anticipation of the album. You can check out the Neon Bible website, or the phone number (which Punknews.org has yet to call - so do so at your own risk/expense) 1-866 NEON BIBLE.