Ok, I admit I have used the balearic word so more people would click on this... "Deadbeat Summer" isn't that far away though, it actually sounds pretty close to Air France, but on a 4-track recorder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWroI785ghU
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Saturday, 11 July 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i like them but i don't think there's enough out there yet for a thread
― cutty, Saturday, 11 July 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
not balearic tho, you should be ashamed of yourself
― cutty, Saturday, 11 July 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I know :-)
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Saturday, 11 July 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
This one is even lesser balearic I'm afraid :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jma6Ojg2Vg
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Saturday, 11 July 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd like the mods to edit the title
― cutty, Saturday, 11 July 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I knew I would go to hell with this.
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Saturday, 11 July 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
For my defence, I was actually pretty sincere about Deadbeat Summer having some kind of a balearic vibe (in an Air France way...). There's also other acts like Ducktails or Forest Swords that share that same kind of sound.
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Saturday, 11 July 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
But if you find it really disturbing, I have obviously nothing against the mods editing the title.
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Saturday, 11 July 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think there's enough out there yet for a thread
This is ILM, home of premature threads.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 11 July 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
there's an mp3 up here: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2009/07/terminally-chill
don't know what i feel about these guys, though i admit that i like a lot of this weirdo dance-not-dance stuff.
as in, i could listen to the Urxed's "Gardening at Night" all fucking night....
― gonna be a long hot summer for the MS Word paperclip (the table is the table), Saturday, 11 July 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"deadbeat summer" kind of sounds like the direction I was hoping the Double would go into instead of getting all studio. Looking forward to more from them.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 11 July 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok, I admit I have used the balearic word so more people would click on this...
thanks! otherwise i might've had to wait a little while to hear the like four songs they have released
― balearific, Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
reminds me of Ariel Pink - Flying Circles btw
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Saturday, 11 July 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i just discovered this great song, perfect timing for summer of 2009.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
a neon indian thread, but nothing for james ferraro
― kamerad, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ kinda wonder why he and spencer clark's solo stuff doesn't get more appreciation in general, but tons of stuff on the pacific city and new age tape labels would definitely appeal to fans of ducktails, etc.
especially the stuff under ferraro's actual name, lamborghini crystal, certain monopoly child star searchers albums, edward flex, k2, tons more i'm sure
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 09:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i had Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms locked.
so to recap the album has leaked:
1. (AM)2. Deadbeat Summer3. Laughing Gas4. Terminally Chill5. (If I Knew, I'd Tell You)6. 6669 (I Don't Know If You Know)7. Should Have Taken Acid With You8. Mind, Drips9. Psychic Chasms10. Local Joke11. Ephemeral Artery12. 7000 (Reprise)
― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
also, i LOVE this album!
― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 August 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to bump again as i'm into my fifth listen: best summer album of 2009.
what does ILM think?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 8 August 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i have the Psychic Chasms EP and like it a lot. is the LP also called Psychic Chasms, and does it have like all of the EP's tracks on it?
― een, Saturday, 8 August 2009 07:12 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure but the track listing for the album i posted a few threads up and it has 12 songs on it.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 9 August 2009 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
yo i love this album.
― b0dylanguage, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yes this album slays, hope more come around on this wonderful debut.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Ducktails btw
http://www.myspace.com/ducktailss
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I have hung out with this guy. We went out for late night dinners and talked about being depressed. We also played NES and smoked weed.
― teflon monkey, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
that's like a perfect review for the tracks i have heard
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
He is a nice man. His other band is Vega.
― teflon monkey, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
this has a nice sound & kind of reminds me of JAMC even though it doesn't actually sound like that
the story about the dude being depressed & playing NES & smoking weed makes me hesitant to but in though for some reason .... I don't play video games or smoke weed for one thing
― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
buy* in
― lukevalentine, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the story about the dude being depressed & playing NES & smoking weed
k i know this keeps getting brought up but, isn't this every non-granolafolk indie artist's "backstory" right now? it's all just depressed dudes smoking weed, playing old video games, watching days of thunder, etc..
but anyway, this album is pretty dope, some of it kinda reminds me of Todd era todd rundgren. i am still struggling w/indie vocals these days but the vox here are only mildly annoying.
― guammls (QE II), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Listened to this finally last night while drifting off to sleep. It sounded like an old Billy Ocean tape playing on a boombox through a couple of pillows. I kind of like it.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a couple skater threads are here somewhere..SKATERSTHE SKATERS search and destroy
― guammls (QE II), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
but anyway, this album is pretty dope, some of it kinda reminds me of Todd era todd rundgren.
I'm sure I read somewhere that there were Todd Rundgren samples on this album
― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8811294
lol
― dmr, Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Hooray for rich kids!
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
hooray!
― Bobby Wo (max), Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbE6zRGXeo
― hyperstudio (skeletor), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the song with the spooky Warriors keyboard sound over a happy beat
― calstars, Saturday, 17 October 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i was really digging this album a few months back but is it really any better than that Discovery - LP ?
― Bee OK, Sunday, 18 October 2009 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmmm...finally heard this. With all the talk I was expecting something alot more hodge podge and strange but this basically sounds like dude really likes Justice or something. Did this start as a myspace band or something?
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
formed from the digital dust of cyberspace
― guammls (QE II), Sunday, 18 October 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
what the shit is a myspace band?
― cutty, Monday, 19 October 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
The background to the Warriors one is like What a Fool Believes on steroids
― calstars, Monday, 19 October 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Fun stuff! I approve
― Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 October 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
me2!
― henry s, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
getting Bill Nelson vibes on the title track - love it
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i never listened to this album but they sounded super black kids/passion pit on fallon
― birdman mumia (J0rdan S.), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
this album's great
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like it was made for $50
guitar player in the live band is 14, yes?
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
― cutty, Monday, October 19, 2009 10:28 AM
http://www.myspace.com/thebabeinthewoods
― am0n, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw these dudes play outdoors in the sun last month, and mostly thought oh-tee-tee oh-tee-em, but I would live in the desert for a week if it meant surviving by drinking out of the keyboardist's bellybutton.
― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Friday, 12 February 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I like these guys ina similar vein
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
uh i mean
http://www.myspace.com/tanlinestheband
tanlines sound pretty much exactly like tough alliance to me
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
?? way woozier, less new ordery, beachier, i like ToughAlliance fine tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyI0Mv00BXQ
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
to be fair i've only heard one tanlines song -- whichever was the single from the EP -- and i thought it sounded exactly like tta
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, I don't know, I was feeling Tanlines' remix work, but that new EP isn't really sticking with me. Maybe a few more listens...I have somewhat of a hard time seeing the Tough Alliance comparisons, but that's because I <3 TTA to death.
― larry_fitzmaurice, Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the synth line in "real life" is like, just incredibly tta to me -- the vocals not so much tho
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess I could see that, but for me what separates TTA from something like, say, Wham, is the vocals (so distinctive).
― larry_fitzmaurice, Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, def
― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
not really sure if this is chillwave or whatever but daaamn i love this whole thing, video is A+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxLY9l5Fmmc
― plax (ico), Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
^liking this an awful lot, and now v. much anticipating the lo-fi soul balladry that we gotta come up with a name for quick trend.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, this guy's list of influences sounds like my top ten on last fm
The songs are organized like a pop song but still disorganized and experimental enough that you can listen to it as a means of selfless possession. The music that I love to listen to is twofold-- there's noisy soundscape-y stuff like Black Dice and Alvin Lucier all the way to, like, D'Angelo and The-Dream. I always wanted to hear them at the same time.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 25 April 2010 08:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow it's so cool to see one of my videos here (I made the HTDW one). Glad you like it plax (ico)!
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Sunday, 25 April 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
man that is srs nice work!
― plax (ico), Sunday, 25 April 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
like
http://vimeo.com/22662646
― school of seven bellhops (blueski), Friday, 20 May 2011 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Kinda sucks that this band gets written off. Some really good tunes in there.
― Call on me (Spinspin Sugah), Friday, 20 May 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the new album is amazing.
― cutty, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the collab w/ the flaming lips? i trust yr judgement but...
― ᵉ( ᷅ʷɣʷ)ᵊ (Lamp), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to hear it, is it good?
― akm, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i was talking about the new album.
― cutty, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
whats it called?
― "what a great post" - some (Lamp), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
vimeo link above is recommendedcan't wait for new tunes from this dude
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
tentatively called "dream machine, dream" but it might change
― cutty, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
scratch that title. it's good though ;)
― cutty, Thursday, 23 June 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Really, really liking "Era Extraña" now streaming on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/140122007/first-listen-neon-indian-era-extra-a. Probably album of the year (so far) for me.
― daavid, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa, I really loved this album listening to that stream
― Sandra Bullock violently stabbing a TV dinner (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
'fallout' is fabulous...i havent spent a lot of time w/ the rest but it's all good
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 15 September 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
EE's 10/10. The album cover is something special too.
― Spinspin Sugah, Thursday, 15 September 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, "Fallout" is what lured me in - hearing one morning when clock radio alarm went off. Good stuff. Sad it took me so long to discover it.
― Edward Bax, Friday, 20 June 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link
"polish girl" is a 10/10 song for me & doesn't seem to have been discussed anywhere on ilm
― ciderpress, Friday, 20 June 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
ok i missed this new song until now but i love it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTuT1s-YPLE
― ciderpress, Monday, 13 July 2015 04:15 (eight years ago) link
New album drops in a few weeks. Interested to see where he goes with this album. Thought Era Extraña was a nice progression from Psychic Chasms.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 00:52 (eight years ago) link
"Annie" is a brilliant song.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 09:22 (eight years ago) link
'Slumlord' is fabulous too - bodes well for the album streamable NOW
― nashwan, Monday, 12 October 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
Very inspired album imo... Maybe not as strong as PC
― calstars, Sunday, 25 October 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
Really enjoying this. Jammed with ideas (more impressively given the original version of the album was apparently lost) albeit all within a specific aesthetic so he probably won't be expanding his fanbase and will almost certainly be left off year-end lists. Can't wait to hear a lot of this live. His vocals are noticeably better too (altho the bar was pretty typically low there).
Despite being an interlude that bass drop on 'Bozo' is one of the best moments. 'Techno Clique' also great.
― nashwan, Friday, 30 October 2015 10:22 (eight years ago) link
I... don't hate this?
But the bits I like best are basically Cut/Copy with a less irritating singer.
― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
this is one of my favorite albums of the year
apparently a chunk of it was recorded on a carnival cruise ship?
― gr8080, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
Now that I've had time to listen to this multiple times, I have to say it's one of this year's greatest disappointments for me. There's a lot going on, musically-speaking, but nothing coalesces to an appealing whole. I'm more than willing this a personal defect, but fuck it, I'm upset nonetheless.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 18 December 2015 02:07 (eight years ago) link
Dear Skorpio Magazine, Baby's Eyes, and News from the Sun have been my top tracks off this lately
61 Cygni Ave I played on repeat for like a week straight though
― pplasma, Friday, 18 December 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
Neon Indian FREE SHOW - August 9 – Tuesday – 7:00pm – East River Park, Manhattanhttp://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-neon-indian/
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
lol this guy is playing my (free) neighborhood street fair in a couple weeks
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 July 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
Not sure if this is fun or just annoying but you at least get a Trumpiñata...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jvkHxmeNXc
― nashwan, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
New album 'World Of Hassle' out in a few months, now just as Alan Palomo. Tracks released so far offer more (or at least as much) glitz but less grit than previous NI work/aesthetic. Nice to see he's still making these kinds of videos though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHpsn9xmS0
― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 11:21 (eleven months ago) link
new album is kinda ilm bait (very sophisti-synthpop), definitely his best work
― ufo, Friday, 22 September 2023 12:38 (eight months ago) link
I like this album but find the lyrics on it kind of obnoxious. The schtick worked for me on his previous record, but it feels clumsier and goofier here. Especially that first track... I guess partly it's the delivery too, the silly voice he's doing.
But you know what? The music's good enough for me to get over it. Especially Stay-At-Home DJ, that's the standout for me so far.
― OneSecondBefore, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:02 (eight months ago) link
his schtick is goofy for sure but it fits the music and works better than it did on the previous album to me
― ufo, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:09 (eight months ago) link