Neon Golden

Neon Golden one of the best alternative rock albums of the 2000s. It was the first album of The Notwist incorporating electronic elements and that works fantastic. When choosing a highlight track over half of the album would be a right selection ("One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand", "Pilot", "Pick Up the Phone", "Trashing Days", "Consequence").

Alternate universe Radiohead. I can tell that this is one of those albums that would have significantly rewired my brain if I discovered them as a young teen. Especially "Consequence", what a song. Worked as a closer so well that I almost felt bad listening to the bonus instrumental tracks included in the Spotify version.

Nicely produced, experimental-ish music. It's not particularly challenging, but it fills your earballs well enough.

Indie with an electronic bend, I dig it!

I found this to be a very pleasant listen. The production was excellent. I felt that the focus was a bit too much on making the production sound really cool and, because of that, the production did not end up mixing well with their overall style. Just my own opinion, it may work for some other people. I really did enjoy it and look forward to listening again. 3/5

Never heard of this before

Generic af

Mid

Kind of soft electronic mixed with soft indie. Not bad, and very easy to digest.

I listened to a couple of albums today and do not even remember what this one was so it must have just played while I listened

I like the music, but the vocals are throwing me off a bit. They sound so uninterested.

I found this album interesting but also forgettable at the same time, which sounds odd, but feels like an album you really have to pay attention with or it just drifts into the background. Either way I think it’s worthy of the list, just not sure if I’ll ever remember it to come back to.

It was not my kind of thing but I didn’t hate it.

Commits the cardinal sin of media by being just plain boring – not even frustrating or so bad it’s good, just boring. Maybe it was notable in the early aughts, but throwing together sparse acoustic plucking and synths that sound like a bad Thom Yorke solo LP doesn’t do much for the album’s nearly hour-long runtime. It’s all so disparate and lacking in any kind of connecting thread, feels mostly like the world’s worst (or most pretentious) jam session.