Stainless Style | Loppylugs

Submitted by the panel on 16 February 2013 - 10:03pm

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Artist:

Neon Neon

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Year:

2 008

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Track-listing:

Neon Theme*Dream Cars*I Told Her on Alderaan*Raquel*Trick for Treat*Steel Your Girl*I Lust U*Sweat Shop*Belfast*Michael Douglas*Luxury Pool*Stainless Style

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Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_19

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Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

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Short-title:

stainless

nominator-ID:

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Meeting-date:

Thursday, 2 April 2009

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

Stainless_Style

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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

2-3-6-10

8-11

I'm rather fond of this album. There's some great work going on in the background of almost every track. Although some of the actual songs are quite basic, most of them are rescued by subtle layering of synths and vocals that build nicely in the background. These synths and vocals provide a nice flow to the music, and I like the way most songs feature a steady crescendo keeping your interest alive towards the end of the track. Less keen on the rap tracks, but it provides variation.
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

A right old hodge podge but a few good tracks in there

2-5-10

1-6-7-9

You're not really going to say this is a coherent album, with songs that fit naturally together. It's a funny old blend of styles, a bit like listening to a Top of the Pops compilation from the 80s. There is some good stuff and some dodgy stuff, but it's mostly entertaining and convincingly styled.

The album is largely 80s synth electro pop pastiche, which is executed pretty realistically but which actually feels like an exercise in historical reference. The whole idea of copying wholesale a previously established sound is something that seems to come up pretty often in these reviews, you would hope you can move a genre forward or add something new to it and it is certainly possible with this genre but I suppose that you could argue that, just like in cooking, certain combinations do make sense together.

There are also a few dance rap songs on here, that don't necessarily feel like they belong on the same album, but which do provide a nice change of style. These are a bit plastic and a bit naff but they do manage to break the album up a bit and I found them quite entertaining. There are also some sort of soft pop-rock bits that I thought were pretty poor. The album as a whole isn't really sure what it wants to be. Perhaps the problem is the 'concept' behind it - songs themed around the life of John DeLorean - I thought we’d all agreed concept albums weren’t acceptable any more? Whatever, I’m not sure that was ever really going to help things - they're trying to fit styles around the idea behind it all and it lacks musical cohesion as a result.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury

A slow burner. But I still don't like his eyebrow.