High Society

YES YES YES YES YES:
It's fun, infectious, dancable, and everything you could want an album to be while staying away from the mainstream. Enon, please don't become part of the mainstream schlock. Yeah, I really want you to be rich and successful without it getting to your head, but if I hear you on the radio, my whole admiration will change. I know I can't be alone on this one. So if you do release a big radio hit and have a video on MTV (a video for "Carbonation" was made, but as far as I know it's not on MTV), I'm gonna tell those youngsters that the CD they really should get is "High Society"

Wanna get High?:
A hodge podge of rock, electronic, garage, pop, punk, new wave... and very well-done. This is the essential ENON release with crisp production, crafty structure of songs and hooks that are beyond catchy, you'll be singing about 'natural disasters' and 'disposable parts' in your sleep. The best thing about Enon is that they can rock it live as proven at South by Southwest. The word is that they have since disbanded, but you can't keep a good dog down. I eagerly await new material from this band. Pick up 'High Society' for an ecclectic new-wave alternative sound that you can enjoy for a month or two, forget about, then rediscover a year later and totally rock out to at your kegger. For fans of theFaint, Cibo Matto, Gorillaz, the Killers... i don't know. I'm trying to list bands most people have heard.

Solid and worth a listen:
Good solid creative rock. Inventive arrangements. Up to date. Intelligent influences. The comparisons to Beck are somewhat correct, it's kind of a more experimental and hard counterpoint to his music. Beck fans might like this. Can't call this brilliant though because it's not trail blazing. Guys like this can end up really great or fizzle out.

Trying too hard:
2 1/2 Overly rambunctious pop experimenters continued to pursue worthy goals through dedicated, and singular explorations, though this time around the songwriting feels mediocre at best. Most often the jagged combination of spazzy electronics and warped pop songwriting do not add up to anything worthwhile. Only a few noticeable tracks, perhaps only one true standout (Natural Disasters), High Society is too preoccupied with it's drugged out catchiness to match their better releases of drugged out catchiness with greater composition.

ENON rocks my world:
the first time i ever heard of enon, i was visiting my brother in Grinnell where he goes to school. Grinnell is an amazing private school that books a lot of amazing bands that all put on free shows. i didn't know what to expect, but when they started their set with disposable parts, i was hooked. since that show, i've gotten all their albums excepts believo and they have risen to be one of my favorite bands. then this last summer i saw them live once again in omaha in the sokal underground. i was up in the very front and they put on one of the best live shows i've ever seen. High Society is my favorite album of theirs. Old Dominion, the first track, shows how utterly hardcore they are. my neck still hurts from rocking out to that song live. and the wonderfully dancy disposable parts shows their electronic side. with the rest of the album, you can find a variety of songs somewhere in the middle. but the bottom line is that they are all amazing. take my word for it, if you want to buy an enon album, start with this one. most of the songs that they play live are off High Society anyway.