Neon Indian’s Psychic Chasms started getting played out in my car around this time last year when Amazon and Amie Street (R.I.P.) started putting their Best of lists out and putting the albums on sale. It’s kind of cool to see “Mind, Drips” get the video treatment, because it’s one of my favorites from the album. The video looks just about how I would expect it to – all tripped out and dreamlike, filled up with hazy colors and looking like a recorded over Betamax tape.
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[mp3] Under Alien Skies – Overseas
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Under Alien Skies has a sound similar to Washed Out, so it would be easy to saddle them with the much-maligned chillwave label and leave it at that. But their music isn’t as sun bleached as Ernest Greene’s; this new track from the duo sounds the most connected to the other artists in that specific genre. Their only other release – an EP entitled Powder – sounds more Owen Pallett/Final Fantasy than it does Neon Indian.
But then, looking over their MySpace, there’s a picture posted that is taken through a rolling wave, which probably shoots my entire argument dead anyway. Maybe the chillwave crashed over onto UK shores after all.
Find the band on Twitter, where you can talk to the band about getting yourself a copy of their Powder EP. It’s not for sale, but I was told by the band that people can ask them for it. This track will be on a future, as of now untitled EP that should be available in both digital and physical formats.
Under Alien Skies – Overseas (mp3)
Neon Indian – Sleep Paralysist
I bought Neon Indian’s debut – Psychic Chasms
“Sleep Paralysist” was released on Green Label Sound, who we have talked about previously here. The track is as looping and glitchy as the rest of Neon Indian’s debut. If chillwave continues its ascent into the mainstream, then he should be at the forefront.
Neon Indian – Sleep Paralysist (mp3)
Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
Filled with all the quirks and electro-frills a listener could possibly want, Neon Indian has made his own anthem to the malaise that accompanies the months of June through August. ”Deadbeat Summer” rolls along like the season, blissful and unaware, and I’m a little bit disappointed that I first heard it at the end of October, rather than during the dog days of late July. It would have been nice to drink beer on my porch while blasting it for the neighborhood to hear. Combat the impending onslaught of the holiday season with some nostalgia for something that ended only three months ago.
Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer (mp3) from Psychic Chasms
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