No love for Neon Indian ? (lo-fi balearic electronic music)

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.

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.

a neon indian thread, but nothing for james ferraro

there's a couple skater threads are here somewhere..
SKATERS
THE SKATERS search and destroy

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

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8811294

lol

Hooray for rich kids!

hooray!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbE6zRGXeo

I like the song with the spooky Warriors keyboard sound over a happy beat

i was really digging this album a few months back but is it really any better than that Discovery - LP ?

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?

formed from the digital dust of cyberspace

what the shit is a myspace band?

The background to the Warriors one is like What a Fool Believes on steroids

Fun stuff! I approve

me2!

getting Bill Nelson vibes on the title track - love it

i never listened to this album but they sounded super black kids/passion pit on fallon

this album's great

sounds like it was made for $50

guitar player in the live band is 14, yes?

what the shit is a myspace band?

― cutty, Monday, October 19, 2009 10:28 AM

http://www.myspace.com/thebabeinthewoods

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.

I think I like these guys ina similar vein

uh i mean

http://www.myspace.com/tanlinestheband

tanlines sound pretty much exactly like tough alliance to me

?? way woozier, less new ordery, beachier, i like ToughAlliance fine tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyI0Mv00BXQ

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

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.

the synth line in "real life" is like, just incredibly tta to me -- the vocals not so much tho

Yeah, I guess I could see that, but for me what separates TTA from something like, say, Wham, is the vocals (so distinctive).

yeah, def

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

^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.

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.

Wow it's so cool to see one of my videos here (I made the HTDW one). Glad you like it plax (ico)!

man that is srs nice work!

like

http://vimeo.com/22662646

Kinda sucks that this band gets written off. Some really good tunes in there.

the new album is amazing.

the collab w/ the flaming lips? i trust yr judgement but...

I want to hear it, is it good?

i was talking about the new album.

whats it called?

vimeo link above is recommended
can't wait for new tunes from this dude

tentatively called "dream machine, dream" but it might change

scratch that title. it's good though ;)

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.

Whoa, I really loved this album listening to that stream

'fallout' is fabulous...i havent spent a lot of time w/ the rest but it's all good

EE's 10/10. The album cover is something special too.

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.

"polish girl" is a 10/10 song for me & doesn't seem to have been discussed anywhere on ilm

ok i missed this new song until now but i love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTuT1s-YPLE

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.

"Annie" is a brilliant song.

'Slumlord' is fabulous too - bodes well for the album streamable NOW

Very inspired album imo... Maybe not as strong as PC

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.

I... don't hate this?

But the bits I like best are basically Cut/Copy with a less irritating singer.

this is one of my favorite albums of the year

apparently a chunk of it was recorded on a carnival cruise ship?

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.

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

Neon Indian
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lol this guy is playing my (free) neighborhood street fair in a couple weeks

Not sure if this is fun or just annoying but you at least get a Trumpiñata...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jvkHxmeNXc

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

new album is kinda ilm bait (very sophisti-synthpop), definitely his best work

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.

his schtick is goofy for sure but it fits the music and works better than it did on the previous album to me