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4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (4 Feb 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: City Slang
  • ASIN: B00005NY9B
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 48,126 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. One Step Inside
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

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Technically Neon Golden, the sixth album from Germans The Notwist, should be an unequivocal disaster. Laced with meandering acoustic guitars, mournful vocals, post-punk rock, crisp electronica, flutes, dub bass, saxophones, the occasional breakbeat and banjo, the potential for their tender tunes to descend into a chaotic and indulgent nightmare of arty noodling is exceptionally high. However, having spent 15 months in the studio putting their unlikely components together, the outcome couldn't be more transfixing or beautiful; a dreamy world of atmospheric lo-fi lullabies, where hazy pop melodies drift by on an eccentric flow of sensual bleeps, whooshes and crackles. Even when Neon Golden strays towards more traditional rock, Markus Acher's downtrodden yet hopeful vocals, and his achingly sweet melodies persist, as do the sumptuous atmospheric add-ons that link vaguely New Order-ish moments "Pilot" and "One With The Freaks" to the title track's ambient electronic pulses and breathy saxophones. Yet nothing is more magical or odd than "Trashing Days", where they manage 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

CD Description
From their early days as a hardcore punk band, the Notwist sound has evolved by taking the elements of guitar based indie rock and fusing it with experimental electronica. 'Neon Golden' is the band's sixth album and their first for US label City Slang. The single 'Pilot' is also included.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Best German Band Since The Scorpions!!!!, 12 Feb 2002
By "marauderite" - See all my reviews
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The Scorpions are by no means the finest German band to have ever existed and their contribution to music didn't really stretch much farther than 'Wind of Change'. That said, it is difficult to think of many German exports that have proved successful, Kraftwerk are an obvious choice, and more recently Timo Haas, but other than that Die Fantastischen Vier are the only band to stick in my mind. Give a warm welcome, then, to Notwist. They have been around making some quite indifferent music to the pleasure of a very small minority since the early 90s. With the release of 'Neon Golden' though they have become serious players who can produce enigmatic, tranquil yet energetic electronica.

It is often bewildering, strange and complex but at no point does it ever get too clever for its own good or stretch itself too far. Though to all extent and purposes a dance album, this is gifted with a beating heart and genuine sentiment which sets it apart from most of its contemporaries.

Like Air and New Order, Notwist have created a living being out what is often the musical equivalent of a tinman. The variety and combination of sounds on 'Neon Golden' is a major factor in this, 'Trashing Days' combines banjo with synth effects, horns and strings to make a quite unique, otherworldly sound.

Every track has its own 'special effect' which sets it apart from the others, but each at the same time is linked to its predecessor by the whirr of a synth or the ongoing murmur of a bass. Despite its vast variety of sound though everything fits together perfectly. This cohesion is provided by Acher's fragile voice, reminiscent of David Kitt, which has the flow and melodies required to carry each track in the right direction.

This is a quite beautiful album, reminiscent of New Order at times and Kraftwerk at others, but significantly for the most part they sound quite unlike anything else. Though not to everybody's taste, this should be rewarded by an investigation if not a buy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One day all music will sound like this., 5 April 2002
By Matt Sephton (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This has catapulted in as an album that I just cannot stop listening to.

Mellow electronic music with syncopated beats and stuttering rhythms. Nothing new there, and certainly nothing to set it apart from Kid A, Aphex Twin, Björk at al.

The stroke of genius is the way, through what must have surely been a massive undertaking, the band have layered on top of this countless strings, banjo and piano to create the most wonderfully moving melodies I have heard in I don't know how long. Combine this wonderful musical result with some of the most beautiful, heartfelt, nursery rhyme-esque lyrics - sung pefectly and you have a true classic of an album. To think this band started out as a trash rock band boggles the mind.

One day all music will sound like this.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Step Inside, 8 Jun 2002
By Matthew Caffyn (Cardiff, UK) - See all my reviews
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Call myself a music fan?! I had never heard of NoTwist until recentley, the sublime "Pick Up The Phone" entered my head and is now destined never to leave. Perhaps a one-song wonder, I told myself, but no: low and behold a complete album mixing the best bits of pop, electronica and beautifully deadpan vocals. NoTwist have really come up with a gem here, from the slow building One Step Inside, to the immediate out and out pop of Pilot and One With The Freaks. Then there's soaring strings over the cunning loops of Solitaire and even banjo on Trashing Days (it somehow works - dont ask how). In fact this album is such a mix of styles and influences it shouldnt work yet, fantastically, it does. If your looking for something fresh, inovative and catchy this year you have to hear Neon Golden - if you dont I promise you'll missing out on the cleverest pop album around at the moment.
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5.0 out of 5 stars German avant-pop at its finest!
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a beautiful cd for those who like electro pop but are afraid to dive headfirst into the new mellow euro dance scene. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure beauty...
You just cannot get yourself to listen to just one song, you have to listen the whole thing. Full of ideas and still so simple sounding. Deep and minimalistic lyrics. Read more
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