![]() Though the No Way Down EP appeared in 2008, buzz around the act didn't really start until the following year, when the songs "Should've Taken Acid with You" - which was inspired by Palomo and Scardetta's friendship - and "6669 (I Don't Know If You Know)" were posted and praised by indie blogs. After relocating to Denton to study at the University of North Texas, he began Neon Indian as a multimedia project with video artist Alicia Scardetta, a friend of his since high school. During high school, he formed the band Ghosthunter as well as the solo dance music project VEGA. As the 2010s came to a close, his work as a producer and soundtrack composer - not to mention his fascination with Peruvian music - suggested even more aspects to Palomo's work.īorn in Monterrey, Mexico, Palomo moved to San Antonio, Texas at age five. ![]() Night School, he switched to a palette of funk, new wave, and reggae, but held onto Neon Indian's gift for balancing heady atmospheres with catchy songwriting. With 2009's Psychic Chasms, Neon Indian lived up to the hype generated by the project's early singles, thanks to Palomo's hazy but hooky swirl of disco, electro, dream, and synth pop. Emerging as a blurry, sample-driven electronic pop outfit with influences ranging from Todd Rundgren to Italo-disco, Neon Indian became one of chillwave's definitive acts in the late 2000s before founder Alan Palomo took the project in a more polished, danceable direction.
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