In a pair months, Alan Palomo is releasing his first album underneath his personal identify, away from the Neon Indian moniker he adopted when he began placing out music within the late ’00s. A couple of days in the past, Palomo celebrated his thirty fifth birthday, and final night time posted a message about why he determined to not go by Neon Indian anymore.

“Inspiration takes many kinds,” Palomo wrote. “I tumbled down a Okay gap of ‘I’m Your Man’ period Leonard Cohen interviews and have become awestruck at how totally he’d reinvented himself at 50. He was humorous, slick, and had issues to SAY.”

“It’s a tried and true 80s male rock cliche to depart your band in your mid 30s to make a ‘solo’ album,” he continued. “Sting, Ferry, Weller; all of them did it however Lenny beat them to it the day he picked up a guitar. Out of the blue, it felt impish to think about my very own identify. REFRESHING even? How may I resist this each honest and foolish plea to myself to shed the moniker?!”

Learn his full assertion beneath:

Let’s discuss turning 35. Let’s discuss concerning the identify change. Let’s lay all of it on the market! I’ve been making music in some kind or one other for happening 17 years. The skilled epochs could also be marked in tasks, albums, and songs however the inside life that compels all of it to manifest, the ‘me’ that wishes to only make issues is often chuggin’ alongside, largely unfazed by neither success nor failure.

This isn’t a singular characteristic. I believe most musicians are all the time staring straight forward out of a Wiley Coyote worry that if you happen to look again, even for a second, you’ll understand that you simply’re floating over the canyon’s edge and gravity will take you in a single indignant swoop. So, trying again might be onerous. However once I do, I don’t see a discogs web page… I see associates, collaborators, and tales I wouldn’t commerce for all of the Hoochie Coochie in Chattanooga! I’m humbled to have this career. I’m humbled to get to labor it. And I’m humbled to have followers to point out for it.

So far as the identify is anxious.. Inspiration takes many kinds. I tumbled down a Okay gap of “I’m Your Man” period Leonard Cohen interviews and have become awestruck at how totally he’d reinvented himself at 50. He was humorous, slick, and had issues to SAY. It’s a tried and true 80s male rock cliche to depart your band in your mid 30s to make a ‘solo’ album. Sting, Ferry, Weller; all of them did it however Lenny beat them to it the day he picked up a guitar. Out of the blue, it felt impish to think about my very own identify. REFRESHING even? How may I resist this each honest and foolish plea to myself to shed the moniker?!

Is it costing extra work to go by my very own identify rn? Positive. Is there a core gradient of followers who know me by identify that spirals out to an outer ring who know “Polish Woman” via a Now-Thats-What-I-Name-Indie algorithm? Ditto. However 50 yr outdated me may thank me for it in the long term! … For many who discovered it complicated: Neon Indian is just not ‘formally retired’ so, calm down. Utilizing a reputation I donned at 20 is simply not the place my head is at, atm. I did a trilogy of LPs, tried to make a 4th that felt sorta pressured, and wrote an entire totally different album in its wake. Does a rose by some other identify smells simply as dank, y’all?

In brief, thanks for all of the great reminiscences. I hope to get to spend the subsequent 17 years forging extra. Thanks for all of the birthday needs! And thanks for tuning in! Could I eternally be enshrined, yelling inside a CRT tv.. It’s a World Of Problem however effectively definitely worth the work, bbs!

Alan Palomo’s new album World Of Problem is out 9/15 by way of Mother+Pop.