http://www.nme.com/news/neon-neon/35128



Neon Neon to stream entire album online

Mar 13, 2008

Neon Neon, the project linking Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys and electro producer Boom Bip, are streaming their entire album on their MySpace site a week before it’s released.

'Stainless Style', the band’s debut, is available to listen to on http://www.myspace.com/neonx2 now.

The album, also featuring collaborations with Cate Le Bon and SpankRock, is a concept album about the life of playboy car designer John DeLorean, who created the doomed, but iconic, DeLorean sportscar which famously featured as a time machine in 80s movie trilogy 'Back To The Future'.

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Uncut (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's a thrill to hear Rhys' mellifluous voice juxtaposed with the music's synthetic thrust....As an exercise in sleek, nostalgic pop fantasy, [title]STAINLESS STYLE[/title] is a lot of fun..."

1. Neon Theme
2. Dream Cars
3. I Told Her On Alderaan
4. Raquel
5. Trick For Treat - (with Spank Rock)
6. Steel Your Girl
7. I Lust U
8. Sweat Shop - (with Yo Majesty)
9. Belfast
10. Michael Douglas
11. Luxury Pool - (with Fatlip)
12. Stainless Style

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00127G7A2/?tag=imwan-20

'I Lust U' is pure 80s fun (check it out on YubTub). I've read ' I Told Her On Alderaan' is a very catchy pop single.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lZqDmCO9c[/youtube]

Neon Neon to ditch band name
Gruff Rhys doesn't know if there will be another album

October 30, 2008
http://www.nme.com/news/neon-neon/40750



Gruff Rhys has cast doubt over the future of his side-project Neon Neon in a recent interview.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, the eccentric Welsh singer said we was not sure whether another record would appear under that name.

The band's 2008 debut album 'Stainless Style' was nominated for the Nationwide Mercury Prize, but was beaten by Elbow's 'The Seldom Seen Kid'.

"I don't know about making another Neon Neon album because it was quite a specific record about (John) DeLorean's life story," Rhys explained. "If we did something in the future it would have to be something different. But it's nice that it did well and we get to play it live."