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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">September 13, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:black"><img width="367" height="52" id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CC71FF.3EAA9E70"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">NEON INDIAN RELEASES
<i>Era Extraña </i>TUESDAY<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">BAND<i>
</i>DEBUTS “POLISH GIRL” VIDEO - A COLLABORATION WITH THE CREATORS PROECT</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">BAND TO PERFORM “POLISH GIRL”ON LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON WEDNESDAY (9.14) 12:35/11:35 C<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">New York…</span></b>One of the bigger bloggy buzz bands to emerge in indie rock over the last two years, Neon Indian returns this Tuesday with the self-produced / Dave Fridmann-mixed
<b><i>Era Extraña</i></b><i> </i>(Mom + Pop Music). On the same day you can lose yourself in<span style="color:black"> classic cyber-punk ‘80s film themes with the release of the video for “Polish Girl”, which is a result
</span>of The Creators Project’s The Studio, which produces and distributes works from artists representing a cross-section of creative disciplines.<b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Watch the video:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">
<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://youtu.be/b0Q_JwOqko4">http://youtu.be/b0Q_JwOqko4</a></span></u><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Buy the record:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/era-extrana/id461771122">http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/era-extrana/id461771122</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">See, there’s this<span style="color:black"> humanoid whose job is scanning people's bodies and thoughts in a dystopian world. One day he breaks free, but is forced to live as an outcast who spends his days trying
to tap into the data and emotions of the woman who he fell in love with at first sight (or at first-scan). </span>Produced in collaboration with Neon Indian, Mom + Pop Music and The Creators Project, Neon Indian leader Alan Palomo tapped video director Tim
Nackashi (OK GO, TV on the Radio, Theophilus London, Death Cab for Cutie) to collaborate on the conception.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">“When I first heard 'Polish Girl,' it immediately called to mind images of someone traveling through their own thoughts and memories as if they were floating in some kind of physical, digital space,” says Nackashi,
“or of someone trying to reach out through screens and across wires to be close with someone else. I started thinking about how new ideas for light-painting techniques with a tablet might be an essential part of the storyline for this song; maybe someone is
drawing in the air with the data and memories of someone they admire, because it is all they will ever have.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">For <b>
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon</b> (Wednesday 9.14 | 12:35/11:35C) Neon Indian & The Creators Project will bring in elements from the scanning moments of the video into the projections that are playing during the performance. The band will be triggering these
video clips and putting filters on them live, too, which will be much more fun for everyone involved and everyone watching! Connecting the live element with the video has been really exciting for Palomo and Nackashi.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">“<span style="color:black">We used a ton of in-camera and post-effects to make this video happen.” says Nackashi. “In post, we built 3D models of the girl which were used to create the light-painting effects,
and also super-imposed onto the girl when she is being scanned.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The day of the album's release, Palomo will DJ an
<a href="http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/html_proxy.cgi?filename=/sections-db/news.html&ID=7724039.17786" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">in-store at Other Music</span></a> in NYC. Admission is free and the event lasts from 6 - 8 PM. Neon Indian's
<a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/07/neon_indian_ann_1.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">tour with Purity Ring and Com Truise</span></a> kicks off two days after the album's release.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About <i>The Creators Project</i> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Launched in 2010, <i>The Creators Project</i> is an ongoing global initiative dedicated to supporting artists in realizing their creative visions through technology. The project includes an online community, a
content creation studio, and a global event series. In just one year, The Creators Project has become a cultural phenomenon. Tens of thousands of guests have attended the events, and its website has attracted more than 14MM unique visitors and its video content
has been viewed 70MM times. The project unites a vast collection of artists, designers, musicians, and filmmakers who are using technology to push the bounds of creative expression.
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<span style="color:black">Neon Indian is the brainchild of Alan Palomo, who's 2009 debut record
<b><i>Psychic Chasms</i></b><i> </i>not only earned the 20 year-old a spot on numerous year-end lists, but assisted the forming of a genre that, though known by a few names now (hypnagogic pop, glo-fi, chillwave), summoned a very unique and specific electro-mangled
sound. Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and SPIN all praised Palomo for his adventurous new sound, and he was tapped to perform at top festivals like South by Southwest, Bonnaroo, and Sasquatch and also scored opening slots for bands ranging from Massive Attack
and The Flaming Lips to Phoenix and Chromeo. Written and recorded last winter in an efficiency apartment in Helsinki, Finland during its short solstice days,
<b><i>Era Extraña</i></b> was ice sculpted from arpeggiated synth-scapes and scribbled journal entries made during his stint there alone in constant solitude.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">PRESS MATERIALS CAN BE ACCESSED HERE –
</span><a href="http://ge.tt/8P8dM46">http://ge.tt/8P8dM46</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>“(Neon Indian) has brought all the best summer sounds – bedroom production, borrowed nostalgia, unresolved sadness, deceptively agile popcraft – together on a single album.”</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><img border="0" width="143" height="38" id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CC71FF.3EAA9E70">(Best New Music - 8.6)</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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“Full of danceable beats, carefree vocal melodies, and synth atmospheries inspired by Vangelis’ Blade Runner score, the album plays like ‘80s pop refracted through a, yes, neon filter.”</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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"(<u>Psychic Chasms</u> is) no-fi time travel at it's most raw and hypnotic"</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">NEON INDIAN LINKS:</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Official site - </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=pnx9fkcab&et=1106790664137&s=0&e=0015so8mq-oFEqWbR5-NQNiRRTSSc5dVqoSJ-SX-Aduh0Nl7z17jKczZihTxUSebDhKPqyhXSH88mUsOQuwZi7NBDYjS3b9_VJmS24rrEEt4Q4RBTkwHTFVvg==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.neonindian.com
</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> <br>
Twitter - </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=pnx9fkcab&et=1106790664137&s=0&e=0015so8mq-oFEqWbR5-NQNiRRTSSc5dVqoSJ-SX-Aduh0Nl7z17jKczZihTxUSebDhKPqyhXSH88mUra4eYznTPuzRKTa2bSEzJJTpRMlogOCpTB2fIb8Cbtw==" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://twitter.com/neonindian</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Facebook - </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=pnx9fkcab&et=1106790664137&s=0&e=0015so8mq-oFEqWbR5-NQNiRRTSSc5dVqoSJ-SX-Aduh0Nl7z17jKczZihTxUSebDhKPqyhXSH88mUsOQuwZi7NBFB2unESe4VhOvpySIW7ZoSxEdaVCdexfZrTS7fV7lLC" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.facebook.com/neonindian</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">PRESS CONTACTS:
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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">JENNIE BODDY</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:jennie@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank"><b>jennie@pressherepublicity.com</b></a><b><span style="color:black"> /
</span></b><a href="tel:212-246-2640" target="_blank"><b>212-246-2640</b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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