One has to question the sanity of any reviewer…ever. After being given pile upon pile of CDs to review or mp3s to comb through, we still actively seek out things that we know we’ll enjoy in hopes of finding something different as well. That’s either a little bit sick or I really do just love music that much. After a week of sending album after album out for review, I still found time over the busy holiday weekend to go CD shopping. Missing off that list, however, was “an elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo” and “visual acrobatics of Video artist Alicia Scardetta”, Neon Indian [MySpace]. With a new album, Psychic Chasms, coming out in October and a gig at the upcoming Monolith Festival in Colorado, it’s a busy time for the synth sampler but they’ve been kind enough to share some of the synth-bliss-pop goodness with us, so please check it out.
For some reason, it reminds me of southern California and the beach, but that MIGHT be the “white noise mp3″ I am listening to off YouTube as I write this. Ha.
Check out some music “after the jump”
[mp3] Neon Indian – “Terminally Chill”
“Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, Dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. Forged after a hazy winter gathering in Texas, this initial batch of tracks were the result of field recordings, record samples, a collection of bizarre synth sounds. Soliciting the visual acrobatics of Video artist Alicia Scardetta, this project is setting out to be a multimedia maelstrom. Orbiting around the themes of drug induced heartbreak, weary afternoons, and lost chances, this music provides a lush soundtrack to the deadbeat exploits of teenage ennui. Neon Indian’s bedroom ballads have already forged the upcoming Psychic Chasms, the debut full-length, set for release this Fall. They’ve been compared to New Order, Future Bible Heroes, and most recently said to sound like a saw-wave cutting a Doobie Brother’s song in half. Expect much racket to be had from this fresh faced crew.”
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Lol, I found the best review of these guys:
“Neon Indian sound kind of like a slow-motion epileptic fit singing you a lullaby whilst your head is lodged in a tumble drier filled with pixie dust. This is a good thing.”
Love it!
http://www.t5m.com/ben-cohen/introducing-neon-indian.html