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The intricacy of the band's sound remain[s], but with less experimental desperation and considerably better ideas.
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With Neon Golden, The Notwist have done something that's not exactly an easy task; they've created an album that's mixes electronic and organic music in a way that makes each better.
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Alternative PressAmazing. [Mar 2003, p.92]
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Not only shares some textural similarities with Radiohead's "Kid A," but rivals it as an art-rock classic.
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The Notwist are, for me, the band New Order never had a good enough singer, or a creative enough programmer, to be.
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A unique and beautiful work that will be returned to again and again. Definitely, already, an album of the year.
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Every single song is an hummable masterpiece of pop experimentation.
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With Neon Golden, the Notwist have created a daring album full of different sounds and textures. While this might sound like a textbook post-rock album, it is without a doubt a record firmly anchored by its pop sensibilities.
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Halfway through the album, it's clear that this is a glimpse into the future of pop music.
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A decade into their career, the Notwist have created a masterpiece by pulling the same trick they pulled on Shrink: mixing things that might not seem to fit together into a beautiful, seamless whole.
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PlanetThe vocals are really what seem to live with you after one listen, making Neon Golden memorable beyond its audio gimmicks. [#3, p.87]
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Neon Golden is one of the most exquisite electronic albums to come out in ages.
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What keeps it from being a crackling mess is Markus Acher's sweet, plaintive voice pushing these selected ambient works toward song structure and melody.
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Elegant and subtle, "Neon Golden" convincingly balances the scales of pop and glitch electronics and is the best argument yet for combining the two.
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The Notwist can sculpt more emotional sounds and music into a compact and cutting four minutes than most can do in a career.
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The Notwist are obviously talented enough to keep me guessing if they wanted to. They just don't. They are quite happy making simple pop songs, albeit with complex ingredients.
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The Notwist's previous stabs at fusing pop, techno, punk, and jazz were dominated by post-adolescent melancholy and petulance. Though Neon Golden obsesses over locked rooms and missed chances, it also acknowledges the pleasures of stasis, the distant possibility of change, and an overall affinity with the "freaks."
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UncutNeon Golden often comes on like a radical update of New Order's Lowlife period, where mournful guitar songs are integrated into a mesh of clicks, pops, glitches and samples. [Mar 2003, p.96]
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Album number five dwarfs its predecessors because the members have started treating this group as the sun around which their musical projects must inevitably revolve, and the home to which they must return.
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Young people who think Kraftwerk were more important than the Ramones are free to satisfy their craving for the neu with this retreat into simplicity. But even Radiohead and Mouse on Mars contain more chaos.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 66 out of 73
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Mixed: 2 out of 73
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Negative: 5 out of 73
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SethNNov 22, 2007