I don't think much of Funeral personally. Neon Bible has the advantage over it in just having, in my mind, consistently better songwriting. It's one of the few mainstream indie albums that I really loved this year. Based on Funeral I had placed them firmly in the category of "bands which are good but which don't really do a lot for me", a box which also contains The Decemberists and, sadly, about half of everything Bright Eyes has done since Fevers and Mirrors.
Not that those three necessarily sound alike, just saying.
So, I was very pleasantly surprised by Neon Bible, as were most of my friends who similarly were ambivalent at best towards Funeral.
