ALAN PALOMO (NEON INDIAN) ANNOUNCES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM WORLD OF HASSLE, SHARES “STAY-AT-HOME DJ”

ALAN PALOMO (NEON INDIAN) ANNOUNCES DEBUT SOLO ALBUM WORLD OF HASSLE, SHARES “STAY-AT-HOME DJ”

WORLD OF HASSLE OUT SEPT 15 FROM MOM+POP WITH US TOUR TO FOLLOW IN OCTOBER

WATCH THE ANIMATED VISUALIZER FOR “STAY AT HOME DJ” HERE 

Alan Palomo 2023 credit Daniel Everett Patrick  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, set for a September 15 release via Mom+Pop, 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,” 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 last month. The announcement is accompanied by the release of new single “Stay-at-Home DJ,” a jazzy slice of electrofunk-infused synthpop that arrives alongside an animated visualizer by the album’s art director Robert Beatty. "This is the song that started the whole conversation,” recalls Palomo. “My brother and I wrote it back in 2019 and performed it on the last Neon Indian tour. It signaled a change in direction I’d been looking for but had yet to really know what to do with. When things slowed down during the pandemic I dusted it off and from its uncontrollable outgrowth came World of Hassle." The song is certain to become a live staple when Alan assembles his band to bring World of Hassle on the road this Fall - find full dates below. World of Hassle began as a new album for Neon Indian, the fourth installment 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 Hassleand our own.

Stream “Stay At Home DJ” https://alanpalomo.lnk.to/stay-at-home-dj World of Hassle Pre-Save/Pre-Order https://alanpalomo.lnk.to/world-of-hassle Watch the “Nudista Mundial ‘89 (feat. Mac Demarco)” video https://alanpalomo.lnk.to/nudistamundial89/youtube

Alan Palomo live dates DJ performances:  June 25 - Houston TX - Sound Waves at El Segundo Swim Club  Aug 20 - San Francisco CA - Stern Grove Festival with Flaming Lips  Live band performances: Oct 17 - San Francisco, CA  @ The Chapel  Oct 20 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet's  Oct 21 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey  Oct 23 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace  Oct 26 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger Oct 28 - Dallas, TX @ Ferris Wheelers Nov 2 - Chicago, IL @ Metro  Nov 3 - Detroit, MI @ El Club  Nov 4 - Lakewood, OH @ The Roxy  Nov 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts  Nov 9 - Washington, DC @ Atlantis Club  Nov 10 - Pawtucket RI @ The Met  Nov 11 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere

World of Hassle tracklist 1. The Wailing Mall 2. Meutrière (feat. Flore Benguigui) 3. La Madrileña 4. Nudista Mundial ‘89 (feat. Mac DeMarco) 5. The Return of Mickey Milan 6. Stay-At-Home DJ 7. Club People 8. Alibi for Petra 9. Nobody’s Woman 10. Is There Nightlife After Death? 11. Big Night of Heartache 12. The Island Years 13. Trouble In Mind