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Neon Love
Genre: Indie, Punk
Region: Ballarat, VIC
Members: Jamie Luxton - Drums Michael Belsar - Synth / Guitar Jack Craven - Vocals / Guitar Bryce Forrester - Bass Nipuna Jay - Vocals / Guitar
Sounds Like: drums+ synth +, Bass X 2(Guitars) , = love(hate)X2 + Lust
Influences: Mercy Arms, Reptiles, birthday party

Unearthed Artists We Like: Howl


Neon Love are a talented bunch of guys from Ballarat, some of whom have already drummed up a bit of buzz as part of Unearthed High winners Howl. Being in just one of those bands would be a respectable feat for young’uns from rural Victoria, so ‘Holiday’ comes as a welcome and impressive surprise.

The vocal inflections and arrangement (including the shouted refrain at the end) heavily recall Tokyo Police Club, but it’s not direct cribbing/hero worship because the song beneath it is pretty darn catchy. in itself You know, it’s jaunty indie rock and it’s fun so more power to these guys. They’ll probably go far. Much further than Ballarat.

-Matt Hickey (whothehell.net)

I went searching the interwebs for highly bloggable material and found NEON LOVE sitting over on the charts of Triple J’s unearthed.

They hail from a little town in Victoria, Australia called Ballarat (also known for its large gold deposits back in the 1850’s). With dashes of Vampire Weekend’ish guitar riffs and story telling phrases that force you to really ‘listen’ to the lyrics, its just some more great Australian produce.

Absentee (tradehooks.com)

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Holiday
rating:  4/5
Winsome indie at its best. This song is superbly arranged, and the backing vocals are a great inclusion. Very catchy indeed.
triplej



Holiday
rating:  4/5
nice vocals - and a catchy vintage sound to your style bring it on x
triplej



War
rating:  3/5
This is nice and atmospheric whilst still retaining huge amounts of pop rock fun. You can hit the serious side hard but the fun side a whole lot hard...
superuser



Disco Me
rating:  3/5
a fun track and an even cooler band photo.
superuser


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