Neon Highwire - Luminescence EP

South London band Neon Highwire impress with indie disco mashup EP.


It’s really easy to make a dance/rock hybrid sound shit. You just need to listen to Enter Shikari’s latest effort. It seems a lot of bands trying to plug that trade has run out of ideas, and like a lot of genres that hit a successful streak, it all gets a bit clichéd.

The same cannot be said for Neon Highwire. Yes, their EP ‘Luminescence’ isn’t massively new, but it does more than enough to make it interesting amongst the rest of the crop. The opening track ‘Neon Blink’ may leave you a tad underwhelmed, but the second track ‘Don’t: Wait’ does more than enough to make up for it’s predecessors short comings, with some crazy electro beats been thrown in to keep you on your toes while the indie rock elements of the bands sound seem to take the back seat, almost like a more calculated HORSE The Band song. It’s beyond this point you hear the best Neon Highwire have to offer. ‘Creation #4.00’ builds up into a complete shit storm of electronic beats and nice guitar riffs, opening up into a nice track, before ‘Under Moonlight’ entertains. The main event arrives in the form of ‘Isometric View’, a haphazard track that kicks and screams with frantic vocals and a catchy guitar line over some nice beats.

‘Akira!’ ends things fantastically with an enormous climax, and with that, ‘Luminescence’ proves to be an EP well worth your attention. Yes, it could be better, but the EP is highly ambitious and for that it deserves respect. Neon Highwire are a band worthy of your attention, so make sure you check this infectious EP out as soon as possible.