★★★★★
Release Date: September 13, 2011 Alan Palomo's second album as Neon Indian is full of fuzzy and catchy songs that try so hard to encompass the feeling of summer. As just another "chillwave" release in a sea of "chillwave" releases in the last year or so, Era Extraña doesn't quite do enough to really separate itself from the crowd. However, I get the feeling that, whether or not it was Palomo's intention, this isn't an album that is supposed to stick out...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-01-09
★★★★★
Taking the basic framework of his debut album and putting it into the hands of a big name producer, Alan Palomo has invested in the idea of bigger being better for his second effort as Neon Indian. Era Extrana knows it's strengths, which similarly to it's predecessor Psychic Chasms, is heady nostalgia, a video game aesthetic and a healthy dose of extravagance. The swollen sound is instantly perceptible and the leap from the bedroom to the studio is for the most part welcome...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2011-12-26
★★★★★
If being chillwave necessitates being chill, you might just say Neon Indian's Alan Palomo has made his exit from the genre. That doesn't mean the 21-year-old has abandoned his sound ? hazy electronics abound on his sophomore album ? but where Psychic Chasms playfully skittered about, Era Extraña broods a little more, lurking in shadows of sharp gain and static-laden reverb...
- exclaim.ca
2011-11-03
★★★★★
Alan Palomo's decision to retreat to the Nordic country of Finland for the recording of his second album as Neon Indian appears to be a no-brainer; lushly textured synth-pop that runs the gamut from exuberant to nocturnal seems completely simpatico with a country whose many chimerical qualities were espoused by Finnish patriarch Jean Sibelius...
- www.adequacy.net
2011-11-03
★★★★★
Summary: Alan Palomo - still neon in the end. 15 of 15 thought this review was well written "Recession-era music: low-budget and danceable," said the New York Times' Jon Parales of the (then still-emerging) chillwave genre in an article published by the paper back in 2010...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-10-31
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Bridging the Gap Neon Indian is Alan Palomo, a 23-year-old Mexican-born Texan who specializes in chill vibes and synthpop. In fact, his strong 2009 debut Psychic Chasms is certainly a tributary running to the rather obnoxious phrase "chillwave." It blew people's minds in a way that troubled some--it was a little too retro and derivative even as it was brilliantly catchy and tongue-in-cheek...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-10-24
★★★★★
It"s hip to be square - or in the case of the year"s current musical climate, it"s hip to be anything but chillwave. Luckily, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and instead of deigning to become an expired version of himself, Neon Indian emerges as Alan Palomo 2.0 and breaks free from a genre dripping with blog buzz. Leaping from its 2009 predecessor, "Psychic Chasms", with the first notes of "Heart: Attack", "Era Extraña" becomes a lesson in how to execute electronic music properly...
- www.nme.com
2011-10-24
★★★★★
Hiding under the alias of Neon Indian is Mexican-born, Texas-based musical producer Alan Palomo. Era Extraña sees the computer instrumentalist following up on his smash underground debut from a few years back, the bubbly and much-hyped Psychic Chasms...
- hour.ca
2011-10-17
★★★★★
In the wake of the movie Drive, with its hazily seductive soundtrack, an expansive, synth-drenched 80s sound feels positively timely. Though not old enough to remember that decade, Alan Palomo has been mining its riches for some time now, at the forefront of the oft-derided chillwave scene. His first album as Neon Indian was sun-struck and woozy; the mood, on the follow-up, has grown a little darker and on "Future Sick" the wooziness veers into nausea...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2011-10-13
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