"The Blindside Kiss" is fueled by its Jesus and Mary Chain-style buzzsaw guitars and dark, reverberating vocals. The added musical depth on Era Extra ñ a prevents it from sounding like a mere extension of Psychic Chasms. In fact, "Halogen (I Could Be a Shadow)" would segue nicely into "Turn It on Again." Many of the new tracks are anchored in '80s synth-pop and new wave, from Depeche Mode and Thompson Twins to Joy Divison and even Genesis. Recorded in Helsinki and mixed by Dave Fridmann, the record builds on the charm of its predecessor by adding new musical colors and depth to Palomo's swirling, computerized pop songs. Neon Indian's new album, Era Extraña, follows 2009's breakthrough debut Psychic Chasms. Alan Palomo, a Mexican-born producer and musician who was a member of the bands Ghosthustler and Vega. Another standout in this continuum of synthesized sounds is Denton, Texas' Neon Indian, a.k.a. As chillwave has grown and matured, artists such as Washed Out, Toro Y Moi, Teen Daze, Com Truise and Small Black have emerged as leaders in a broad category of electronic music. These days, musicians are starting to answer these questions themselves. Was it a flash in the pan? The new sound of pop? It may be relatively easy to make chillwave using only a computer, but who's going to use it to transform pop music to transcend genre tags and marketing in order to advance the sound of music and sustain a career? 13.Īudio for this feature is no longer available.Ī few years ago, at the dawn of the electronic pop subgenre known as "chillwave" - think warm, bleary, heavily filtered washes of sound, of the variety most commonly created on laptops - the music spawned excitement and skepticism in equal measure. Neon Indian's Era Extra ñ a comes out Sept.
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