Personnel adapted from album liner notes.
Arcade Fire •
Win Butler – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, electric bass, piano, synthesizers, banjo and mandolin •
Régine Chassagne – lead and backing vocals, synthesizers, piano, accordion, xylophone,
hurdy-gurdy, drums, elephant's trunk, recorders and percussion, ting-tong •
Richard Reed Parry – rhythm and lead guitars, piano, synthesizers, organ, xylophone, accordion, electric and upright bass, celeste, drums, backing vocals & percussion •
Tim Kingsbury – rhythm guitar, electric and upright bass, piano, synthesizers and backing vocals •
Will Butler – rhythm guitar, electric and upright bass, synthesizers, piano, sitar, trombone, clarinet, panpipes, glockenspiel, musical saw, omnichord, concertina, backing vocals, percussion and gadulka •
Jeremy Gara – drums, rhythm guitar, piano, synthesizers and percussion
Additional musicians •
Sarah Neufeld – strings, orchestral arrangements, backing vocals, vocals, synthesizers, piano •
Owen Pallett – orchestral arrangements, strings, piano •
Marika Anthony-Shaw – strings • FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague – orchestra •
Colin Stetson – horn arrangements, saxophones • Stuart Bogie – saxophones • Willinson Duprate – additional percussion • Verrieux Zile – additional percussion • Baptiste Jean Nazaire – additional percussion • Wilkenson Magloire – additional percussion • Dieuveut Marc Thelus – additional percussion • Wichemond Thelus – additional percussion •
Kid Koala – sample manipulation (
1.1) •
David Bowie – vocals (
1.1) •
Jonathan Ross – vocal sample (
1.6 and 3.1)
Recording personnel •
Arcade Fire – production, mixing (
1.3 and
2.1) •
James Murphy – production (except tracks
1.3 and
2.1), additional recording, mixing (
2.2 and
2.6) •
Markus Dravs – production (except tracks
1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4 and
2.6), additional recording • Mark Lawson – recording, additional production (
1.1, 1.3 and
1.4) • Korey Richey – recording, mixing assistant •
Tom Elmhirst – additional recording, mixing (
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.7, 2.3 and
2.5) • Damian Taylor – additional recording • Pascal Shefteshy – additional recording • David Farrell – recording assistant • Eric Heigle – recording assistant • Craig Silvey – mixing (
1.2, 1.5, 1.6 and
2.4) • Mark Lawson – mixing (
1.3 and
2.1) • Matt Shaw – mixing assistant • Ben Baptie – mixing assistant • Joe Visciano – mixing assistant • Eduardo de la Paz – mixing assistant •
Ted Jensen – mastering
Artwork • Caroline Robert – album artwork, photography • Korey Richey – photography ==Commercial performance==