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The Notwist
Neon Golden (Domino)
The fifth album from Germany’s the Notwist puts banjo, crunchy guitar and avant-garde electronics together for perfect three minute-plus pop songs that evoke the U.K.’s Badly Drawn Boy. Formerly a hard-core band, the Notwist has evolved into a collective of computer geeks lavishing listeners with unapologetic melody, a welcome anomaly to the bore of electronic crossover. Every song is a winner, but “Pick Up the Phone” best captures singer Markus Acher’s indie-boy sadness and the band’s electro-acoustic melancholy.
