Era Extraña

Era Extraña is electronic pop artist Alan Palomo's second album as Neon Indian. It was released on September 13, 2011, through Mom + Pop Music in the United States, Transgressive Records in Great Britain and Europe, Columbia Music/Big Nothing in Japan, and Pop Frenzy/Inertia in Australia. The album received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 27 reviews, indicating "Generally Favorable Reviews". In a Pitchfork interview on September 12, 2011, Palomo said that he was living in Helsinki, Finland for four weeks while making the new album. He explained how he got stalked by a hobo.