Era Extraña

Era Extraña
Studio album by Neon Indian
Released	September 7, 2011 (2011-09-07)
Recorded	2010–11; 45 Kalevankatu (Helsinki) Brooklyn Tarbox Road Studios (Cassadaga, New York)
Genre	Chillwave synthpop indie pop new wave
Length	42:27
Label	Static Tongues Mom + Pop
Producer	Alan Palomo Dave Fridmann
Neon Indian chronology
The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian (2011) Era Extraña (2011) Errata Anex (2013)

Era Extraña is the second studio album by American electronic music band Neon Indian, released on September 7, 2011 by Static Tongues and Mom + Pop Music. The album was recorded during the winter of 2010–11 in Helsinki, Finland, where frontman Alan Palomo was living for four weeks.^[1][2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The A.V. Club	B−[5]
Clash	8/10[6]
Club Fonograma	85/100[7]
NME	8/10[8]
The Observer	[9]
Pitchfork Media	7.9/10[10]
PopMatters	5/10[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]
Spin	7/10[13]

Era Extraña received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 27 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".^[3]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Alan Palomo, except where noted. 

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Era Extraña.^[2]

• Alan Palomo – arrangement, performer, production
• Aaron Brown – album art
• Rob Carmichael – design, layout
• Ben Chappell – album art
• Adam Corbesmeyer – bass (track 4)
• Jason Faries – percussion (track 6)
• Dave Fridmann – additional production, mixing
• Jezy Gray – guitar (track 6)
• David Jacobs – management
• Joshua McWhirter – guitar (tracks 3, 5–7, 10)
• Claudius Mittendorfer – mixing (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8)

Charts

Release history

References