Vega Intl. Night School
Vega Intl. Night School is the third album by American electronic music band Neon Indian. It was released on October 16, 2015, by Mom + Pop Music. The album title was an intentional nod to Alan Palomo's other music project, titled Vega, for which he has produced only a single EP. Noticing that ideas from both Neon Indian and Vega were merging, Palomo decided to combine the two projects into one and retire the use of the Vega moniker. Critical reception. "Vega Intl. Night School" received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which  assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on 17 reviews. Praising "the most rewarding of danceable peaks" in the album's middle section, Calum Slingerland of "Exclaim!" wrote that "Palomo's four-year absence has yielded a flashy, fun record with welcome diversity". After noting that "there's plenty of Tom Tom Club and Blondie in the album's bubbly disco", Heather Phares of AllMusic said, "In its own way, "VEGA INTL. Night School" is just as immersive as Neon Indian's previous work and even  more impressionistic, with a flamboyance that makes it a captivating standout within his own work as well as his contemporaries". "Rolling Stone" reviewer Renato Pagnani said, "Palomo peels back the layers of psychedelia that have sometimes obscured his work in the past, striving for a directness that results in the most crystallized – and accessible – version of his aesthetic yet". Sasha Geffen of "Consequence of Sound" praised "the sequence of 'Slumlord' into 'Slumlord's Re-lease' and 'Techno Clique'", declaring that it "proves to be "Night School"'s centerpiece and the most concrete realization yet of Neon Indian as pure electronic  music". Personnel. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Vega Intl. Night School".