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...That I think is the key—the competition you’re playing,” Walsh says. “It’s not whether or not you’ve got fancy uniforms or publicity in the Boston Globe or if your office has neon signs saying, ‘Here to Harvard baseball...
Last January, the Notwist broke four years of silence with Neon Golden, easily the year’s most coveted indie release, and salivating critics around the world deemed it one of 2002’s best. Hipsters across the U.S. searched frantically for the album in stores, but most came up dry. A year after its release, it is finally available...
...Neon Golden is repetitive. Along with Acher’s unaffected voice, the rhythm programming lends a steady, structured calm to the disc. But despite the songs’ tendency to mesh together, they never get boring. Rather, they cohere into an intriguingly dreamy, otherworldly sensation that pulsates with occasional surges of energy...
...Neon Golden” is understated blues with powerful acoustic guitar and primitive percussion lines that jar wonderfully with Acher’s voice and a small choir of woodwinds. The eeriest and most satisfying moment on the album is when Acher sings “Don’t leave me here for I glow,” pausing on each tension-filled word, in absolute unison with the piano...
...meticulous frameworks of instruments, electronic sounds and captivating vocals work so well that the music buries itself in the listener’s psyche. Each plaintive echo, new texture and looping rhythm sounds like a natural extension of the brain’s synapses. For all its arty abstractions, Neon Golden reaches the sublime without being pompous or untouchable in the least...