Praxis Makes Perfect
Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys and Bryan Hollon (aka Boom Bip) continue their pursuit of the album-biopic by dedicating Neon Neon's second full-length to the life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, a wealthy Italian scion turned left-wing political activist and publisher, to the tune of deceptively plasticized synth pop.
Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys and Bryan Hollon (aka Boom Bip) continue their pursuit of the album-biopic by dedicating Neon Neon's second full-length to the life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, a wealthy Italian scion turned left-wing political activist and publisher, to the tune of deceptively plasticized synth pop.
In the mid-’00s, Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys and hip-hop producer/artist Boom Bip teamed up to form the synth-pop project Neon Neon. The pair’s 2008 debut album, Stainless Style, is an underrated collection of frothy ’80s synth-pop and hip-hop made with vintage keyboards and gear (which explains the “I…
In the mid-’00s, Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys and hip-hop producer/artist Boom Bip teamed up to form the synth-pop project Neon Neon. The pair’s 2008 debut album, Stainless Style, is an underrated collection of frothy ’80s synth-pop and hip-hop made with vintage keyboards and gear (which explains the “I…
If there was a biopic on Italian publisher, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli's life, Neon Neon's new concept album would make a highly suitable soundtrack for it.
If there was a biopic on Italian publisher, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli's life, Neon Neon's new concept album would make a highly suitable soundtrack for it.
Neon Neon’s auspicious debut, Stainless Style, was written in homage to 80s ‘icon’ John DeLorean with the sonic palette to match, but Praxis deals with the life and times of Italian communist sympathiser Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, last seen just before dying in unexplained circumstances in 1972. A different era, but not as far as the music is concerned.
Neon Neon’s auspicious debut, Stainless Style, was written in homage to 80s ‘icon’ John DeLorean with the sonic palette to match, but Praxis deals with the life and times of Italian communist sympathiser Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, last seen just before dying in unexplained circumstances in 1972. A different era, but not as far as the music is concerned.
Concept albums, by and large, have a bad reputation: self-indulgent, bloated, and lost in their own sense of importance.
Concept albums, by and large, have a bad reputation: self-indulgent, bloated, and lost in their own sense of importance.