"CD of the week" The Observer 4/5 Uncut - 4/5 URB - 4/5 Q Magazine 4/5 The Guardian - 4/5 The Mirror 4/5 Observer Music Monthly
"Like playing Grand Theft Auto on Ecstasy" Vice Magazine 8/10
"A brilliant electro-pop concept album" Dazed & Confused magazine
"One of the most brilliantly demented electro-pop albums you'll hear this year"... "The best side-project since Gorillaz"... "Miss it at your peril" NME 8/10
"Damn near perfect... Early contender for album of the year" Record Collector
"Utterly Unique...The stuff of dreams" Clash magazine
"Neon Neon were bound to get compared to Gorillaz... Stainless Style is more consistent as an album... The potential hits, hit equally hard." Pitchfork
"The best thing I've heard for ages" Fred Ventura
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EXCLUSIVE NEON NEON 'DUETS' MIX
Bryan Hollon aka. Boom Bip, has put together an exclusive mix for Rolling Stone - a selection of famous musical duets that inspired the track 'I Lust U' on the album. Click the Rolling Stone Magazine logo to stream this mix!
EXCLUSIVE PITCHFORK 'INFLUENCES' MIX
Click the logo above for another mix by Boom Bip exclusively for Pitchfork - a selection of tracks that influenced the production on the album 'Stainless Style'
NEON NEON MIX FOR SPINNER.COM
Boom Bip's also created a mixtape for AOL music website, Spinner.com. This includes tracks from disco to electro via Baltimore, space and beyond... Click the logo above to stream this mix.
A new group from Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals and Boom Bip. Their debut album Stainless Style (OUT NOW WORLDWIDE) is themed around the life of John Delorean and features Spank Rock, Yo Majesty and Fat Lip.
NEON NEON place # 2 on my Top 10 albums of the year. For my other nine choices visit my blog. Here's my review.
Adorned in a sleeve that could have been designed by Hipgnosis for a Golden Earring album, Stainless Style celebrates every facet of that fabulous "Me" decade, the 1980s. Far more than a quick one-off project from Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) and producer Boom Bip, this set is actually a lovingly-crafted widescreen 'concept album' about John DeLorean, the silver-haired '80s auto tycoon. Alongside sleek synthpop tracks like "Dream Cars" and "Belfast," you also get "Raquel," a pulsing love letter to Raquel Welch. Add a few Latin flourishes, and a pair of hip hop tracks, and you have an album that seldom strays from the dancefloor. Feel the rush.
FOR FANS OF: Giorgio Moroder, SFA, Men Without Hats, a-Ha, Buck Rogers, Peter Schilling, Gnarls Barkley, Retro-Futurism
