Neon Golden [VINYL]

Rating

Album: Neon Golden [VINYL]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand
2)	Pilot
3)	Pick up the Phone
4)	Trashing Days
5)	This Room
6)	Solitaire
7)	One with the Freaks
8)	Neon Golden
9)	Off the Rails
10)	Consequence
11)	On/Off the Record

Album: Neon Golden [VINYL]

Song Title

Time

One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand

Pilot

Pick up the Phone

Trashing Days

This Room

Solitaire

One with the Freaks

Neon Golden

Off the Rails

10)

Consequence

11)

On/Off the Record

Performer Notes

Notwist: Markus Acher, Micha Acher, Martin Gretschmann, Martin Messerchmid.
Recorded at Uphon Tonstudio, Weilheim, Germany
Neon Golden was a subtle rewiring of the Notwist's long-established baroque hip-hop post-rock fetishist technique. The album's minimal kitchen-sink vibe was stronger, the wide assortment of instruments were arranged with new conviction, and the band would throw in a startlingly unpretentious mixture of tub-thumbing static, cellos, banjos, organs, and breakbeats while Markus Acher's Belle & Sebastian-styled vocals flowed underneath like island run-off. In "This Room," "Pick Up the Phone," "Off the Rails," and the excellent "Consequence," the intricacy of the band's sound remained, but with less experimental desperation and considerably better ideas. ~ Dean Carlson

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (3/20/03, p.66) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Warm electronic atmospheres saddle up close to sad-boy pop....Markus Archer's sweet, plaintive voice [pushes] these selected ambient works toward song structure and melody..."

Magnet (p.86) - "[They] blended crunchy, skittery beats...with dubby textures, decorative string flourishes, smooth woodwind textures and insanely catchy pop melodies."

Uncut (magazine) (p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[G]litchy electronics and wintry acoustic melodies, it is not a million miles from the sound that went chartwards in the hands of The Postal Service and Owl City."