Reduced to a cold, hard synopsis, Neon Neon's Stainless Style sounds like a joke. A collaboration between Super Furry Animals singer/songwriter Gruff Rhys and Los Angeles underground hip-hop/electronic producer Boom Bip, Neon Neon sounds like an unlikely pair on paper and they've made their partnership even stranger by creating a concept album about John DeLorean, the automobile industry maverick who was as notorious for his futuristic designs as for his 1982 arrest for drug trafficking, a charge he later beat yet which gave him a stigma he couldn't shake. It's a quintessential '80s tragedy which provides Neon Neon an opportunity to craft a quintessentially '80s tribute, something they deliver with startling accuracy on Stainless Style. Apart from the cuts where Spank Rock, Yo Majesty and Fatlip are brought in -- their presence dictates a harder, modern production from Boom Bip -- the album is so precise in its re-creation of the gleaming glitz of the go-go Reaganomics era that it could be mistaken as a relic from 1983, but the remarkable thing about Stainless Style is that there's not a sliver of irony underneath the cold shimmer of all of its analog synths and chorused, echoed guitars. There is humor here -- sly, knowing humor, as there should be with offhand references to Star Wars, Raquel Welch and Michael Douglas, along with deliberate allusions to early electro and tight, tuneful /p>
ew wave pop -- but this isn't camp, as there's a surprising melancholy flowing beneath the transparently shallow surfaces on "I Told Her on Alderaan" and "Raquel." Even with those trace elements of sadness, Stainless Style is hardly a heavy album: there's just enough weariness to the music to give it emotional pull, but the chief attraction of this tight 12-track concept album is how Neon Neon has created an album that isn't so much a straight-up replica of '80s excess as one that puts all of that indulgence into perspective, both emotionally and musically.
In 1985 The DeLorean DMC-12 was thrust into the global consciousness with a staring role in the first Back To The Future movie. Its gull-wing doors, muscular design and ability to span space and time cemented its place in popular culture as an icon of cool.In 2008, Neon Neon's single Dream Cars, maintains our love affair with the iconic vehicle as Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip indulge in a smooth r...
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Jill and I went with friend Richie to Neon Neon's sell-out Dublin show on Election Night. Neon Neon, for the uninitiated, are a transatlantic indie supergroup comprising of Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys, hip-hop producer Boom Bip, Welsh songstress Cate Le Bon, and "all-round" entertainer Har Mar Superstar. Their debut LP Stainless Style, a retro-electronic concept album about the rollercoaster ...
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Super Furry Animals songwriter Gruff Rhys teams up with hip-hop producer Boom Bip for a poptastic 80s-tinged concept album about the life of John DeLorean. Listen to a “muxtape” of songs featured in this review by following "this link.":http://neonneonsampler.muxtape.com/Gruff and Mr Bip: "Cruise ship waiter called, wants jacket back"Jill: Can I just ask: who the fuck was John DeLorean? Colin
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March 17 sees the release of Stainless Style, the album by Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip (and friends), under the name of Neon Neon.Stainless Style is a concept album, inspired by the life and times of John De Lorean, entrepeneur, engineer, playboy - but don't let this put you off. In 12 tracks, Mr Rhys and Mr Bip cover the span of De Lorean's life, as well as dipping their toes...
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the wait has been a reason for me to wake up and be alive all January: Stainless Style, the collaborative album of Gruff Rhys (alias Super Furry Animals frontman and all-around demigod) and Boom Bip (nee Bryan Hollon, Cincinnati-based hiphop all-around demigod).8 tracks, 30 minutes in length, due in March out of Lex Records. guests include Naeem (Spank Rock), Sean Tillmann (Har Mar Superstar), ...
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Super Furry Animals songwriter Gruff Rhys teams up with hip-hop producer Boom Bip for a poptastic 80s-tinged concept album about the life of John DeLorean. Listen to a “muxtape” of songs featured in this review by following "this link.":http://neonneonsampler.muxtape.com/Gruff and Mr Bip: "Cruise ship waiter called, wants jacket back"Jill: Can I just ask: who the fuck was John DeLorean? Colin
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Jill and I went with friend Richie to Neon Neon's sell-out Dublin show on Election Night. Neon Neon, for the uninitiated, are a transatlantic indie supergroup comprising of Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys, hip-hop producer Boom Bip, Welsh songstress Cate Le Bon, and "all-round" entertainer Har Mar Superstar. Their debut LP Stainless Style, a retro-electronic concept album about the rollercoaster ...
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The super group Neon Neon is on their marks for the release of Stainless Style on March 18th. The band consists of Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys on the mic and hip hop producer Boom Bip (aka Bryan Hollon) on the beats and blips. The album is themed around the life of car designer John Delorean and you can't miss with sexy shots of the legendary car covering the album sleeve: Stainless Style a...
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Neon Neon, the disco/glam influenced supergroup comprised of Super Furry Gruff Rhys and hip hop producer Boom Bip, released their debut video this week. The tune is "I Lust U" is the newest single off the duo's upcoming debut album Stainless Style and it continues the musical dramatization of the life and times of legendary car designer John DeLorean. Anyone lucky enough to sit in a DeLorean ...
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March 17 sees the release of Stainless Style, the album by Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip (and friends), under the name of Neon Neon.Stainless Style is a concept album, inspired by the life and times of John De Lorean, entrepeneur, engineer, playboy - but don't let this put you off. In 12 tracks, Mr Rhys and Mr Bip cover the span of De Lorean's life, as well as dipping their toes...
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Browsing mog.com, as one does, I came across Neon Neon, a side project of fave band Super Furry Animal's singer Gruff Rhys. So I immediately downloaded it (from iTunes Plus) - to find an album of perfectly formed 80's tribute music, in fact a concept album based on the life of 80's icon John DeLorean. Fucking brilliant, and so typical of Mr Rhys's offbeat genius.
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In 1985 The DeLorean DMC-12 was thrust into the global consciousness with a staring role in the first Back To The Future movie. Its gull-wing doors, muscular design and ability to span space and time cemented its place in popular culture as an icon of cool.In 2008, Neon Neon's single Dream Cars, maintains our love affair with the iconic vehicle as Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip indulge in a smooth r...
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| 1 Neon Theme |
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| 2 Dream Cars |
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| 3 I Told Her on Alderaan |
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| 4 Raquel |
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| 5 Trick for Treat |
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| 6 Steel Your Girl |
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| 7 I Lust U |
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| 8 Sweat Shop |
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| 9 Belfast |
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| 10 Michael Douglas |
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| 11 Luxury Pool |
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| 12 Stainless Style |
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