Word: neon
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...Notwist produce some of the most interesting sounds in Germany these days. In February, the rock band’s new album Neon Golden finally crossed the Atlantic for its American debut, a year after its critically acclaimed premier in Europe...
Last Sunday, on their first American tour in five years, the band set off T.T. the Bear’s Place in Central Square with favorites from Neon Golden, including songs like “Pilot and This Room” and the mellow and airy “Pick Up the Phone.” Acher’s plaintive voice onstage sounds much like it does on record, hovering softly over washes of keyboard and guitar played to fluid but complex rhythms. What is surprising about the live show is the band’s newfound energy, which...
...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...
...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...