Neon Indian details new LP VEGA INTL. Night School, his score to an imaginary film
Neon Indian - led by mainman Alan Palomo - has announced a brand new double album called VEGA INTL. Night School and shared its lead cut "Slumlord".
The Neon Indian website has also been given a snazzy revamp, and features a phone number fans can call (+1-512-643-VEGA) to access "information about the album, a special voice greeting, and a voicemail that includes snippets of ‘Slumlord’".
Earlier this year, Palomo shared "Annie" while still working on the follow up 2011's Era Extraña.
Palomo says of the record: "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."
The album was recorded partly on a cruise ship by Palomo alongside his brother Jorge (who worked on the vessel as a house band bassist). Recording the album in a cabin that they'd transformed into a studio, the pair "tracked songs between margaritas as the ship traversed the Bahamas from Florida."
Alex Epton (XXXchange) helped mix the record, with the duo drawing inspiration from pulpy B-movies and films centred in the Big Apple so that Palomo could "score to an imaginary film playing indefinitely at the neglected theaters or porno booths of [his] head."
VEGA INTL. Night School is released 16 October via Transgressive.
Stream "Slumlord" below, and then check out the LP's tracklist afterwards.
Tracklist:
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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