Tune in tonight to see the band perform “Annie” on Fallon
STREAM: VEGA INTL. Night School –
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Neon Indian (aka Alan Palomo) is releasing VEGA INTL. Night School, the long awaited follow up to 2011’s Era Extraña via Mom + Pop on October 16. Today you can stream the whole album via NPR First Listen – Palomo also collaborated with visual artist Sabrina Ratté to make a full album visualizer. The band will perform “Annie” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, Oct. 12. The band hits the road again the next day, starting with a show at the 9:30 Club in DC and followed by a very special performance at Webster Hall on Oct. 14 as part of CMJ which will feature an exclusive light show from the same team that produced Amon Tobin’s ISAM tour.
The album was conceived during a period of aesthetic reinvention for Palomo, as he retooled the lo-fi and spontaneous writing style he’d developed as Neon Indian by incorporating elements of the cleaner production values and dance oriented approach of his previous recording moniker VEGA, ultimately merging the two into one fast lane. Developed over a four year period, the album brims with funk-centric guitar lines, pronounced Balearic rhythms, and the most elaborate songwriting of his career.
Composed and recorded in a variety of locations including, but not limited to, the cabin aboard a cruise ship, DFA’s Plantain Studios in New York, Pure X’s practice space in Austin, Ben Allen’s studio in Atlanta, and mixed in Brooklyn with Alex Epton (XXXchange). Upon its completion, Alan noted “most of what I’ve learned about human nature in my twenties has happened after dark. People are just kind of more honest then. More deliberate. I like to call the places I go to Night Schools.”
Press photo (below) by Pooneh Ghana
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TOUR DATES:
10/13 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *
10/14 – New York, NY – Webster Hall *
10/16 – Detroit, MI – Populux *
10/17 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall *
10/20 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
10/21 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
10/22 – Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar
10/23 – Buffalo, NY – Tralf Music Hall
11/07 – Austin, TX – Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/08 – New Orleans, LA – Republic
11/10 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
11/11 – Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom
11/14 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
11/15 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
* = w/ Tamaryn
Neon Indian
VEGA INTL. Night School
(Mom + Pop)
Street Date: Oct. 16, 2015
Track List:
1. Hit Parade
2. Annie
3. Street Level
4. Smut!
5. Bozo
6. The Glitzy Hive
7. Dear Skorpio Magazine
8. Slumlord
9. Slumlord’s Re-Lease
10. Techno Clique
11. Baby’s Eyes
12. C’est La Vie (say the casualties!)
13. 61 Cygni ave.
14. News From the Sun (live bootleg)
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