Neon Heights new album

Neon Heights new album

3 October, 2007 | 9.06AM

• Section: Music News
• Written by: bagpakmusic

Two years on from their second long player, the extremely-well received ‘A Hot Trip to Heaven’ (plaudits from Pete Tong, Rob Da Bank, Mary Anne Hobbs, Mixmag, DJ, iDJ, BBCi, Album of the issue in Update etc etc) Neon Heights return with ten more slices of funk/soul/jazz/pop/downtempo/whateveruwannacallit flavaz for the 07 in the form of ‘You Make Love to Robots and Wonder What People Are For’.

“Neon Heights have always been one of those acts capable of flashes of genius. What really sets the album apart from its predecessors, though, is the consistency of the songs on offer. By the time the
breathtakingly Balearic closer ‘A Beautiful Thing’ comes around, you’re left in no doubt that Neon Heights are the finished article. Their moment may have finally arrived.” (iDJ Magazine October Review, Matt Anniss)

“like meeting Che Guevara sipping Manhattans in a rooftop cocktail bar … you’ll love this.” (Mixmag, October Review)

“a finely polished nugget of an album” (Andy McKirdy, Skint Records)
“amazing…hats off to ya big time!” (Jimpster)
“sounds good!” (Gilles Peterson)

Two years on from their second long player, the extremely-well received ‘A Hot Trip to Heaven’ (plaudits from Pete Tong, Rob Da Bank, Mary Anne Hobbs, Mixmag, DJ, iDJ, BBCi, Album of the issue in Update etc etc) Neon Heights return with ten more slices of funk/soul/jazz/pop/downtempo/whateveruwannacallit flavaz for the 07.

Kicking off with Radio 1 favourite ‘I Walked Out This Morning’ (multiple plays on The Blue Room to worldwide positive feedback) a number of these tunes have been doing damage already off CDR. The dancefloor-friendly Love Hound has been getting radio plays from The Unabombers and Michael Ruetten, not to mention a remix from Italy’s Nu-Frequency crew, while the response to the Carina Andersson collabo ‘Beautiful Thing’ which closes the album has been phenomenal: The Unabombers, Pete Lawrence, Jimpster, Gilles Peterson and Rob Da Bank have been amongst those lining up to praise its deep soul emotion. In between there’s a hiphop jazz ode to New Orleans penned by J.Todd (’Pray For New Orleans), some slinky soul courtesy of Rachel Harris’ dynamic vocals on Giving my Love, Dreamin and Someone Like You, a cool J.Todd dancefloor ditty (Hott N Freezin) and plenty more to go-go...its a an involving, funk-filled listen from start to finish.”

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