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Or maybe it’s an effort to transform 8-bit trickery from nostalgic gimmickry into something entirely more spectacular something powerful, intelligent, loudly ambient and blissfully evocative. Perhaps the sheer abrasiveness of this 57-second-long instrumental intro is Alan Palomo’s attempt at shaking off the troubling chillwave tag that was attached to his Neon Indian project when he released his debut album, Psychic Chasms, in 2009. What the intention actually is though, isn’t altogether clear. It is bold and direct in all its glitchy glory, like all statements of intent should be. Whatever Palomo does next, it should be fascinating.‘Heart: Attack’, the opening track on Neon Indian’s Era Extraña, sounds like a 200-foot-tall Game Boy loading up. No matter, though, as there’s room for everyone, and this makes for ideal driving music and it should sound sensational in a club. If there is downside to Era Extraña, it’s that it is easy to admire but hard to love – for all of the fine craft on display, there’s little obvious emotion.

Polish Girl is as endearingly plinky as they come, and the closing Arcade Blues is the closest Palomo comes to whistle-in-the-bath pop. Suns Irrupt is packed with taped distortion but retains its cohesion despite myriad samples while the buzzsaw-guitar-swamped Hex Girlfriend and The Blindside Kiss remind us how influential The Jesus and Mary Chain have been. More certainly, his English vocals are buried deep in the mix and the feel is positively filmic, be it on the unashamedly 80s title-track which almost bursts into Hall & Oates' Out of Touch, or the more sombre Halogen (I Could Be a Shadow) which, perhaps for the first time this century, makes you wonder just what happened to the Thompson Twins. Palomo claims, perhaps not entirely truthfully, that Era Extraña is a search for the meaning of cyberpunk but even the title, a Spanish wordplay on 'strange' and 'longing', is elusive. Instead, he's opened up, owned up to more of his musical influences (but not everything, his samples still twisted into proceedings with undetectable elegance), and crafted something as intriguing as it is unusual. The cultural shock of the Mexico-born, Texas-raised artist moving to the Arctic chill of a Finnish winter may have been seismic, but there's no hint of Scandinavian despair to be heard. For Era Extraña, the Spanish-speaking 22-year-old son of Mexican pop star Jorge Palomo fled to – of all places – Helsinki, where he wrote and recorded these tracks, which are joined and linked by three brief instrumentals: Heart: Attack, Heart: Decay and Heart: Release. However one categorises his material, the debut Neon Indian album, 2009's Psychic Chasms, was a head-spinning affair which sampled 70s maverick Todd Rundgren without sounding especially dated at its heart was the heroic Should've Taken Acid With You.

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He explained how he got stalked by a hobo.Ī chum of Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, who remixed and co-produced Era Extraña, Alan Palomo (aka Neon Indian, also the name of the full band) is such a hip name to drop that his clattering, multi-layered electro-pop has spawned a new genre, still unsure whether to call itself: hypnagogic pop, perhaps, or glo-fi, or chillwave… In a Pitchfork interview on September 12, 2011, Palomo said that he was living in Helsinki, Finland for four weeks while making the new album. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 27 reviews, indicating 'Generally Favorable Reviews'.

The album received positive reviews from music critics. It was released on September 13, 2011, through Mom + Pop Music in the United States, Transgressive Records in Great Britain and Europe, Columbia Music/Big Nothing in Japan, and Pop Frenzy/Inertia in Australia. Era Extraña is electronic pop artist Alan Palomo's second album as Neon Indian.

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