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    Alan Palomo shelves Neon Indian name, mines the 1980s in new album

    LOS ANGELES — Much has changed in the eight years since avant-pop artist and filmmaker Alan Palomo released his last album. First, he’s no longer performing under the name Neon Indian — “I’m going solo from myself,” says Palomo, 35. Second, he’s jarred by the prospect of promoting his music on TikTok: “I might have to work on some dance challenges,” he adds with a laugh. Third, he’s noticed ...
    by Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times Sep 27, 2023 8 minutes
    Toro Y Moi, left, and Alan Palomo of Neon Indian perform onstage following "Turbo Kid" during the Sundance NEXT FEST at the Theatre at Ace Hotel on Aug. 9, 2015, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — Much has changed in the eight years since avant-pop artist and filmmaker Alan Palomo released his last album.

    First, he’s no longer performing under the name Neon Indian — “I’m going solo from myself,” says Palomo, 35. Second, he’s jarred by the prospect of promoting his music on TikTok: “I might have to work on some dance challenges,” he adds with a laugh. Third, he’s noticed his songs crop up on Spotify and Apple Music playlists labeled “Indie sleaze” — which is not a term that anyone used for hipster culture in the 2000s, but has become shorthand for a scene that Palomo lived on the fringes of.

    “It would have been a perfect time to put out a Neon Indian record, with all the nostalgia,” says Palomo, who welcomes me into his Highland Park home. Inside, echoes of Brazilian jazz bounce off the stucco walls.

    “But by the time I put out my first record, bloghouse was on its way out,” he explains. “I missed that wave, dude! I was outside of the party, looking in!”

    Palomo began making music as Neon Indian while studying film at the University of North Texas in Denton. Released in 2009, his hypnagogic pop opus “Psychic Chasms” brought splashes of technicolor to the lo-fi psychedelia of

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