Notwist - Neon Golden
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Artist: NotwistEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Music Label: Domino
Soundtracks:
- 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
- Consequence
- Scoop (domestic edition bonus track)
- Propeller 9 (domestic edition bonus track)
- Formiga (domestic edition bonus track)
Free Music Notes for Neon Golden
Free Music Review: Junkmedia Review - Keep listening, to see what you missed
Hit: 5 Stars
It's like German band The Notwist is in a four-door Jetta, spiraling up a mountain road. If any of the four bandmembers inside the car were to look out the window right now, they'd see a sweeping landscape of peaks and valleys. Scattered among the natural surroundings is the band's winding history: remnants of bills shared with Fugazi and The Jesus Lizard from the early '90s; wisps of forgotten speed metal riffs hang from pine trees; there's a collaboration with Bjork; and, about 1000 meters below, is the band's first Powerbook. Curiously, there's a violin down there, too. A year ago, The Notwist ascended above the tree line with the release of Neon Golden on City Slang in the UK. Melding electronic drones and clicks and cuts with acoustic instruments, on their sixth ablum The Notwist synthesized their ironically twisted past into the record they've been driving towards for the last 14 years. Ripples of hype ensued.
Without the benefit of actually being released domestically, the album showed up on numerous State-side year-end lists for 2002 (including three by Junkmedia staff here, here and here). Now the album has been given a new life in the United States with the release of this Domino version, which includes three bonus tracks.
Neon Golden stumbles to a start with the syncopated pizzicato violin of "One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand." Layers of bowed violin, guitar and percussion are added, as Markus Acher sets the somber tone for the album with his vocals. Static-y electro drums pound and splash on track six, "Solitaire." Acher delivers vocals in a calculated melancholy; subdued acoustic guitar is plucked against the gentle onslaught of beat fuzz, and, by this time, halfway through the album, it's clear that this is a glimpse into the future of pop music. While guitar-bass-drum-type outfits will never disappear completely, the trend among such bands to integrate electronic undercurrents is now obviously inexorable.
And just when you've got all that figured out, track eight, "Neon Golden," jams a wrench into the spokes. A raunchy acoustic guitar rakes out a blues riff, cymbals are brushed and Acher sings, Neon golden / like all the lights. Later, a doumbek is added, lending a slight Eastern feel to an otherwise traditional blues. It seems like an odd title track for an album that's decidedly nontraditional; that is, until you realize that washes of electronics have taken over for the acoustic instruments. Like the rest of the album, it's so subtle that you'll want to keep listening just to see what else you missed last time around.
Robert Young
Junkmedia Review
Neon Golden Poster
15 months in the making, and light years ahead of their post-punk, self-titled debut in 1990, Neon Gold is Notwist's sixth full length album. 'Top 10 album of the year', says the New York Times. This Domino release features three bonus tracks not available on the import, 'Scoop', 'Propeller 9' & 'Formiga'. A total of 13 tracks in all. 2003.The combination of meandering acoustic guitar, mournful vocals, post-punk rock, crisp electronica, flutes, dub bass, sax, occasional breakbeat, and banjo could've turned the tender tunes on Notwist's sixth album into chaotic and indulgent noodling. The 15 months spent in the studio putting the unlikely components together, however, pays off with a collection beautiful and dreamy lo-fi lullabies in which hazy pop melodies drift by on an eccentric flow of sensual bleeps, whooshes, and crackles. Even when Neon Golden strays toward more traditional rock, Markus Acher's downtrodden yet hopeful vocals and achingly sweet melodies hold up, as do the sumptuous atmospheric add-ons that link the New Order-like "Pilot" and "One with the Freaks" to the title track's ambient electronic pulses. Yet nothing is more magical or odd than "Trashing Days," where Notwist manages to make pneumatic space-age sound effects rubbing against scraping beats, woozy horns and a quietly plucked banjo, sound like the most natural thing in the world. --Dan Gennoe
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