Neon Golden is the fifth studio album by German indie rock band The Notwist.

[4] The songs on Neon Golden fuse indie rock and electronic elements,[5][6] taking influence from styles such as glitch[7][8] and IDM.

[23][24] In The Village Voice's 2003 Pazz & Jop poll, Neon Golden was voted by critics as the year's 33rd best album.

[26] Neon Golden has been cited by critics as a landmark album of indie electronic, or "indietronica", music;[6][27] Tristan Gatward of Loud and Quiet remarked in 2019 that the sound of indie electronic music in the 2000s "was dictated" by the record.

[27] In 2014, PopMatters writer Jose Solis described it as a "truly groundbreaking" album that "set in motion an electronica-meets-indie rock revolution that [would] define the sound of a decade.