New NEON INDIAN - Sleep Paralysist

Neon Indian just dropped the new single "Sleep Paralysist", co-produced by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor. Grab it courtesy of Mountain Dew's Green Label Sound below.

LADY GAGA Rocks, But the Grammys Are Dead To Me

Lady Gaga opened the Grammy's this year with the theatricality we have all come to know and love from America's greatest current pop star. The performance - a medley of "Poker Face", "Speechless" and "Your Song" - featured a riveting duet and duel of the keys with Elton John. From there it was downhill the rest of the evening. Don't even get me started about the Best New Artist category. I still can't understand how Silversun Pickups even qualify in this category, but then Zac Brown beats out MGMT and The Ting Tings for the award! My nominees for this category would have looked like this:

The Antlers
Fever Ray
Lady Gaga
Neon Indian
The XX

NEON INDIAN Remixes GRIZZLY BEAR

Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader (Neon Indian 'Sega Genesis P-Orridge' Remix) [mp3]
Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader (Neon Indian 'Studio 6669' Remix) [mp3]

New Music Monday

Cleaning out my inbox today and decided to post some great music for you. Some of it isn't brand new, but still worthy of your ears. Enjoy!

Acrylics - All of the Fire
The Antlers - Two
Devon Williams - Sufferer
Imaad Wasif - Priestess
Loney Dear - Airport Surroundings
The Mary Onettes - Puzzles
Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows
Neon Indian - Terminally Chill
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than the Stars
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than the Stars (Others in Conversation remix)
Real Estate - Beachcomber
Sufjan Stevens - Movement VI—Isorhythmic Night Dance with Interchanges

NEON INDIAN Announces Debut LP

Neon Indian has been heating up the blogosphere in the last couple of months. Now details emerge about the forthcoming debut full-length Psychic Chasms, due October 13th via Lefse Records.

"Orbiting around the themes of drug induced heartbreak, weary afternoons, and lost chances, this music provides a lush soundtrack to the deadbeat exploits of teenage ennui. Neon Indian's bedroom ballads have already forged the upcoming Psychic Chasms, the debut full-length, set for release this Fall."

Neon Indian - Terminally Chill (mp3)

Psychic Chasms tracklist:

1. (AM)
2. Deadbeat Summer
3. Laughing Gas
4. Terminally Chill
5. (If I knew, I'd tell you)
6. 6669 (i dont know if you know)
7. Should have taken acid with you
8. Mind, Drips
9. Psychic Chasms
10. Local Joke
11. Ephemeral Artery
12. 7000 (reprise)

-photo by Dagny Piasecki

WOODS, JEREMY JAY, NEON INDIAN

It's a slow week at The Sky Report due to an overwhelming amount of work elsewhere, but big things are in the pipeline for this summer. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, I'm currently obsessed with these tracks.

Woods are another lo-fi band from Brooklyn. On first listen it was a bit off-putting, but now I can't get this damn song out of my head.

Woods - The Dark (link)

*****

Also...

"Where Could We Go Tonight", the closing track from Jeremy Jay's new album Slow Dance...

Where Could We Go Tonight? - Jeremy Jay

*****

And...

"Should Have Taken Acid With You" by Neon Indian is pure sweetness to my ears.

Should have taken acid with you - Neon Indian

More Neon Indian...

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer (link)