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Neon Indian
Emerging as a blurry, sample0driven electronic pop outfit with influences ranging from Todd Rundgren to Italo-disco, Neon Indian became one of chill wave’s definitive acts in the late 2000s before founder Alan Palomo took the project in a more polished, danceable direction. With 2009’s Psychic Chasms, Neon Indian lived up to the hype generated by the project’s early singles, thanks to Palomo’s hazy but hooky swirl of disco, electro, dream, and synth pop.
Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Palomo moved to San Antonio, Texas at age five. After relocating to Denton to study at the University of North Texas, he began Neon Indian as a multimedia project with video artist Alicia Scardetta, a friend of his since high school. Palomo wrote and produced Neon Indian’s debut album, Psychic Chasms, which was hailed as one of chill wave’s definitive works soon after its arrival in October 2009. The following year, a deluxe release of the album, plus remixes by Toro y Moi, Dntel, bib, and others, arrives as Mind CTRL: Psychic Chasms Possessed.
In early 2011, Neon Indian released
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Photo by Dagny Piasecki
Twenty-one year-old Mexico-born, Texas-raised Alan Palomo is a restless fellow. Neon Indian is his third new musical identity in two years, following the short-lived Ghosthustler and the ongoing VEGA. But, as opposed to VEGA's glossy synth-pop, Neon Indian is decidedly lo-fi and ramshackle. "Neon Indian is like VEGA's evil twin in the sense that it's made up of these strange musical and emotional impulses," Palomo said in a recent interview.
A gauzy combination of Buggles-style 1980s pop, video game soundtracks, and cheeseball elevator music, Neon Indian songs like ["Deadbeat Summer"](http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11394-deadbeat-summer/ ""Deadbeat Summer"" ) and ["Should Have Taken Acid With You"](http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13183-should-have-taken-acid-with-you/ ""Should Have Taken Acid With You"" ) are effervescent, goofy, and achingly nostalgic. Kind of like MGMT on a ramen budget-- and with less face paint.
A sometime film student, Palomo conceived Neon Ind
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Neon Indian
Austin's Neon Indian, the brainchild of electronic composer Alan Palomo, crafted retro-psychedelic synth-pop littered with all sorts of sound effects on Psychic Chasms (Lefse, 2009). The deranged bubblegum pop Terminally Chill, imbued with dissonance and found sounds, was the archetype of Palomo's songs, that could occasionally steer closer to mainstream power-pop (notably in 6669), but mostly sounded like a sendup of pop muzak. Deadbeat Summer is a parody of the Beatles with a plastic beat a` la Love Of Life Orchestra, and the synth makes fun of the catchy refrain of Should Have Taken Acid With You. Mind Drips sounds like a defanged remix of the Pet Shop Boys. His "dirty" electronic arrangements make a point of ruining sweet danceable ballads such as Local Joke. However for Ephemeral Artery one can almost say the opposite: the melody ruins the industrial nightmare created by the keyboards. This album became one of the blueprints for the entire chillwave movement.
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