Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
80's influenced, bedroom electro-beat pop with aptly timed indecipherable lyrics that imaginably was made for cassette tapes - Alan Palomo, the brainchild behind this Austin, TX outfit garnered attention this year as a blog band resulting in Neon Indian creating one of the year's best underground albums.
With blips & bleeps that wouldn't be out of place in your favorite video game, Neon Indian resolutely placed themselves among the decade's best electropop acts. Psychic Chasms EP was released earlier in the year, with the EP consisting of the majority of the songs found on the LP Psychic Chasms. The LP was released in October with 2 or 3 new songs and a few short interludes.
At times, Psychic Chasms plays out as low-rent Daft Punk (stolen!! from pitchfork), but better. If low-rent means fuzzy, layered beats with druggie, horny lyrics, I'm in. Take Should Have Taken Acid With You as proof:
Should have taken acid with you
Touch the stars and the planets too
Should have taken acid with you
Melt our tongues and become unglued
Should have taken acid with you
Take our clothes off in the swimming pool
Neon Indian is hispter-enriched gold. With enough blog buzz to make you set your neon blue sunglasses & PBR down for a listen, the album itself is ultimately full of substance and enough 80's nostalgia to return to it's funky-chill ambiance.
Standout track - #2, Deadbeat Summer
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