Alan Palomo - World Of Hassle [Double Black vinyl]

Transgressive Records

£25.92

Format: Double Black Vinyl
Catalogue No.: TRANS714X
Barcode: 5400863126216
Release Date: 15 Sep 2023
Genre: Electronic / Pop

Alan Palomo (Neon Indian) announces his debut solo album ‘World Of Hassle’ on Tuesday 6th of June, with the second single from the album ' Stay At Home DJ'.

World Of Hassle is out September 15th 2023 via Transgressive Records (for UK+EU).

It’s been almost eight years since Alan Palomo, the auteur musician/producer behind the long-running avant-pop project Neon Indian, released a full body of music. For years before then, he’d garnered a strong and loyal fanbase and his music, while entrenched in the scenes at the time, sat apart from them, creating a movement of its own. VEGA Intl, ignited further interest in him and broadened the audience's scope, gaining more critical acclaim than previously, well received albums.

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,” 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.

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.

Tracklisting
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?
Big Night of Heartache
The Island Years
Trouble In Mind