Last year, he collaborated with Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor for a brilliant one-off single called “Sleep Paralysist” via Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sound series and, earlier this year, put out a solid EP with psych-pop weirdos The Flaming Lips. Since its release though, Palomo hasn’t looked back in the least. (We miss you dance-punk!) One of its main propagators, how ever unwittingly, is/was Alan Palomo, founder and musical half to Neon Indian, whose gauzy 2009 debut Psychic Chasms is considered one of the sub-genre’s highest points yet. While no one really likes their work to be generalized about, the tag has stuck and, with solid releases this year from chillwave stalwarts Toro Y Moi and Washed Out, doesn’t look to be disappearing anytime soon. Since it got its start a couple years back, the so-called genre has garnered a ton of buzz, warranted namedrops in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and spawned the usual throng of imitators and haterz. The practice wasn’t too uncommon in the past (see: Laurel Canyon folk-rock, Seattle grunge, and the Berlin sound), but the whole ordeal has been sped up exponentially by the Internet, since the generalizations are no longer confined by location. He’ll also be doing a one-off show at Islington’s Electrowerkz venue on 9 Aug.Chillwave: one of the bigger, more recent reminders of how incredibly easy it is to take a couple of vaguely similar bands, tag them with a quasi-memorable name, and watch a new “sub-genre” take off. And there were moments where I lost sight of what I was really there to do”. Looking back on the experience, he said this: “It’s the closest you can get to feeling like you’re at the edge of the earth. Polomo wrote and recorded the album last year during a solo stint in Helsinki, channelling his isolation through the long nights of the solstice season into a first draft, which was then mixed and co-produced by Dave Fridman (MGMT, The Flaming Lips). Whilst still being quite chillwave-adjacent, of course. While his 2009 debut ‘Psychic Chasms’ was labelled by many as a key exponent of the chillwave trend (psychedelic synth-washes, balmy beats), it would seem from a quick blast of free-to-download new track ‘Fallout’ (pick up below), that ‘Era Extraña’ will be an altogether shadier matter. Neon Indian, the brainchild of 20 year old electro whiz Alan Polomo, is to release a second full-length album, titled ‘Era Extraña’, on 10 Oct by way of Transgressive. Releases Neon Indian announces second LP By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 8 August 2011
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