bright lights, indian summer nights

Everything about Brooklyn-Austin anonymous collaborative band Neon Indian seems to ooze mystery- discovered via word of mouth, and a myspace page irritatingly bare of any (incriminating?) information- it even lacks the names of the brilliant two responsible for the music. In fact, the only substantial photograph on their myspace is a scanned polaroid of a curly haired dude peeking appealingly out from behind a KORG mini-piano. Could this be one of the elusive members? Maybe, but we’ll never know; rather than interpreting this as a metaphoric snub of the fan base, I prefer to think that the duo would like to have to music stand alone, uninfluenced by outside judgements. I say, more power to them- their music is definitely good enough to get away with a little bit of pretension.

Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
Neon Indian – Local Joke

edit: The cat’s out of the bag! The two members are Alan Palomo of Ghosthustler fame, and Brooklyn video artist Alicia Scardetta.  Still, it’s the thought that counts.