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Neonian songs teem with colorful metaphors, recurring thoughts and characters, detailing surreal arrangement’s; like logical outpourings of the subconscious constructed and manipulated together for an eccentric and evanescent journey.
His latest album, Treasure, follows the styles complimented in his debut single, Pyrogallic, and creates a fantastic piece filled with complex variations of patterns and arrangements; beautifully mixed and mastered with wholesome, dynamically treated synths and sound designs sparking an energy for adventure.
Self-released January 4, 2019, Treasure is sometimes haunting but mostly electrifying; a display of interesting ideas and transformative arrangement’s churning out a ride of a lifetime!
The songs feel happy and energetic, but with an ominous oppression – both within concept and execution – that lingers unexpectedly. Confronting percussive patterns, and in a couple tracks, a soothing voice distant and melancholic; a membrane of forbidden activity.


The album opens with Treasure Your Dreams. High-pitched synths swirl and elongate foundations of electronic excellency as cymbals shoot through an ever-evolving, hypnotic portal with rich percussion’s shaping the rhythmic landscape. Conjuring a multitude of sounds and abrasive frequencies, exploding about halfway through the song with a shortened interlude; added with a melange of looped structures and a female’s voice resonating.
“All the promises made, were broken by you.” Ethereal chants, intricate synth structures and disjointed chordal patterns evoke intrigue for the next track, Very Large Brain. Contorting your mind through intra-atomic pixelation’s of sampled recordings materializing into the infamous character, Donald Trump, saying, “That’s enough put down the mic.” And even better is, through the schizophrenic arpeggiation’s, tempest sonic exploration’s and minimal percussive beats (drawing clearer sound design to the foreground) we continually hear, “Very Large Brain.” aHA; this album truly is a treasure!

Crispy is just as the name would suggest. A delicious concoction of wonderfully mixed drums, enigmatic synths separating single tonality into sparsity and cut-up blips of textured sounds and stabs.
Steady and rhythmic, whooshing bass frequencies generally drive the energy here; harmony for machines dancing wildly in the trenches. Which pairs perfectly with No8 Phaz3, but in other ways is its own adventure – progressing the landscape of electronic machines and bright, charismatic tones building and overlapping amid chant-like vocals. You can feel the music pulsing through your body, swimming frenziedly throughout your mind, like electricity. Towards the end, a concoction of arpeggiated bass lines, electronic textures and numeric, coded landscapes descend and make way for Crockabell Flowers. A track building off of the various experimentation’s Neonian engineered earlier in the album, but embellished with choir orchestration and fantastic screaming (from Lizzie Doman) about mid-way through; evoking a sense of cataclysm to come crashing down our small world. Containing multiple piano-notes to sinuously weave through composition, transforming into the next track. Treasure Your Nightmares that’s symmetrical to its counterpart, Treasure Your Dreams; but with a twist cleanly terrifying and strangely mystifying. We hear the catch-line “All the promises made were broken by you,” which I’ll be singing in my head for weeks, offering a sense of completion; a sensibility of concept, intrinsically woven, in an album conventional to electronic forms, absolutely brilliant!




Review by Suzi Turner (writer for Rock 'N' Load Magazine)

NEONIAN – Treasure – ALBUM REVIEW

This album softly raises your vibration. Listening to it is like flowing into a hypnotic cycle, enjoying some inspired and restorative time before emerging, feeling as though your head has had a gentle but comprehensive work out.

1) Treasure Your Dreams (5:55)
The opening track zooms and dives straight into electronic beats which build steadily. A brief pause approximately halfway through the track but not all is silent. A female voice holds a note and develops into an electronic buzz followed by the same voice gently reprimanding “All promises made, were broken by you”. The words are clear but resonated and repeated further. The track feels like it reaches the front of your brain and dances in your ears. Invoke.

2) Very Large Brain (5:49)
The second track begins with enigmatic pixel-like bleeps. Unusual voices are heard, intercepted with Donald Trump’s voice saying “That’s enough, put down the mic.” Much like overhearing a CB radio conversation of a forensic investigation. It feels as though something is holding you by the shoulders whilst a picture builds in front of you brick by brick. Midway into the track and the title words “Very, very large brain” are spoken. There are suggestions of metal and steel - perhaps tools? - chopping and buzzing, then faster clicks, whirrs and buzzes. Could this be the soundtrack to an alien autopsy? Imagine.

3) Crispy (7:08)
The third track begins with a clean and crisp cymbal-like beat as the title would suggest. Then more notes float in on a top layer whilst a subtle computerised drum builds steadily. A rollercoaster of a melody is heard in the background. This is followed by a plumb-beat around a quarter of the way into the track. Another tuneful string of beeps and bleeps sashays in and the remainder of the track treats you to an unhurried harmony of robotic sounds. Dance.

4) No8 Phas3 (7:19)
Imagine yourself being launched into outer space. An electronic voice whispers into your ears at various intervals alongside an accumulation of staccato beats. You can feel it in the front of your brain, your temples and even in your upper gums as the notes cut in with windchime effect. The voice is deep but a lighter voice adds an intermittent word. Just over half way through the track you experience isolated drum beats then it’s back to full flow Techno evocative of 80’s/90’s Rave. The ending is a fading series of hi-tech sound effects. Dance some more.

5) Crockabell Flowers (6:58)
Beginning like the loading of an 80’s computer game, a drum beat is then introduced along with a sound not dissimilar to laser gun fire. There is a definite easy-going undertone to this track, less suited to dancing, more suited to a long walk in nature or a chilled afternoon in your favourite armchair, drinking in the beats. There is plenty for your ears and brain to decipher. It seems to be comprised of many tempos. Infact, the more you listen, the more you discover as you allow yourself to bask in the sounds. A slow chanting voice fades into sustained piano notes which lead cleverly in to the start of the next (final) track. Contemplate.

6) Treasure Your Nightmares (7:45)
Leading in with piano notes gives this track a spookier feel than its counterpart ‘Treasure Your Dreams’. Drums, cymbals, beats, it’s almost as though this track is downloading sounds whilst simultaneously blending them handsomely into its rhythm. There are lower notes introduced alongside more piercing bursts and lyrics from track 1 are woven agreeably into the mix. There are electronic chants, repeated beeps, blurps, buzzes, rattles and shakes. These slowly dissipate at the end, leaving you again with solitary piano notes and the faint hum of a voice echoing into the distance. Refresh.

REVIEWER: Suzi Turner 11.12.18