Audio By Carbonatix
Probably should’ve seen this coming: Today, Pitchfork honored Neon Indian with its much-sought-after “Best New Music” tag, giving the album an 8.6 on its 10-point scale. As for the review itself? It’s loving enough, namedropping some pretty heavy hitters–LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, Kevin Shields, Atlas Sound–just to make its point.
Funny, though, that among all those names (even Hall & Oates gets a reference), one is blatantly missing: Todd Rundgren. After all, two of Psych Chasms‘ tracks are based around Rundgren samples (“Deadbeat Summer” and “Terminally Chill”), so, y’know… there’s that.
But, anyway, we digress…
A big congratulations to brainchild Alan Palomo and his barely (if ever) mentioned backing band of Jason Faries, Ronnie Gierhart and Leanne Macomber. And a big congratulations, too, for getting pimped out, oddly enough, on ABC News (which, granted, is working with Pitchfork), as the folks at WeShotJR pointed out yesterday.
