World Of Hassle Alan Palomo SKU: TRANS714X Barcode: 5400863126216 25.00 £25.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Transgressive Released Date: 15th September 2023 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Alan Palomo, the auteur musician / producer behind the long-running avant-pop project, Neon Indian, has just announced his first full- length release under his own name. ‘World of Hassle’ is a vivid piece of world-building that takes listeners into a slightly surreal pocket dimension saturated with anxiety and nostalgia, where jazz funk and wide-shouldered Claude Montana suits never went out of style, and the Cold War chill that suffused Leonard Cohen’s ‘I’m Your Man’ never lifted. ‘World of Hassle’ is a Pynchonesque place, packed with characters and situations rendered in dreamily absurdist strokes – guerilla freedom fighters camped out in a Rainforest Cafe in ‘The Wailing Mall’, a crumbling ex-pop star in ‘The Return of Mickey Milan’ and the Leisure Suit Larry-does-Ibiza fantasy of ‘Nudista Mundial ’89’ (featuring Mac DeMarco), whose indelible hooks and accompanying absurdist animated video by Johnny Woods immediately propelled the song to critical accolades and broad social sharing upon its release. ‘World of Hassle’ began as a new album for Neon Indian, the fourth instalment of an unhurriedly growing body of work stretching back to 2009’s ‘Psychic Chasms’, with an intended swerve into vintage Peruvian cumbia and a political album concept but was derailed by the ambiguous psychic space of quarantine, where concepts like ‘deadline’ and ‘career trajectory’ started to shed their certainty. Palomo unlocked a new flow by letting go of the album concept, followed by the Neon Indian name. He bought a piano and learned to play it properly, unlocking a creative current that pulled him in unexpected but fruitful directions. From the intricate fictional details packed into the cover art (co- created by Palomo and designer Robert Beatty), to the lyrical collage of pop culture and political references, to the music’s early-digital sheen, the album evokes the 80s golden age of rock stars like Bryan Ferry and Sting leaving their own breakthrough projects to strike out as jazzy solo musicians. It’s parody, sure – of rock star ego trips, the mall-ification of America, and our own self-obsession, even on the brink of apocalypse – but it’s also dead serious, the sound of history repeating itself as the Doomsday Clock clicks past its Reagan-era maximum and nuclear anxiety comes back into style along with digital synthesizers and sax solos. The deeper it pulls you into its own uncanny reality, the clearer it becomes how thin the borders are between Alan Palomo’s ‘World of Hassle’ and our own. Artist Alan Palomo Genre World / Fusion Label Transgressive Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings The Wailing Mall Meutrière (feat. Flore Benguigui) La Madrileña Nudista Mundial ’89 (feat. Mac DeMarco) The Return of Mickey Milan Stay-At-Home DJ Club People Alibi For Petra Nobody’s Woman Is There Nightlife After Death? 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