sci-fi teen sex comedy". With its "seasick synths" as well as "bits of arena rock guitar and girlish harmonies", the heavy, playfully sad "Future Sick" manages to convey "the feeling of growing older in a world that's growing faster than you are". It depicts Palomo lamenting "mid-volume under his own creation's drunken abstraction" about wanting to go back into the past, because thinking of the future is making him ill. At this point, according to The Observer Killian Fox, some of the wooziness that Era Extraña takes from Psychic Chasms "veers into nausea". Mitchell described the instrumentation of "Suns Irrupt" as "hypnotic and firework fizzling synths with a woozy synth background". Palomo repeatedly whisper-growls the line "Suns irrupt / I wake up I wake up", and Fitzmaurice compared its repetitiveness to "Someone Great" (2007) by LCD Soundsystem. Release and promotion Three singles were released from Era Extraña: "Fallout", on July 27, 2011; "Polish Girl", on August 3, 2011; and "Hex Girlfriend", on May 28, 2012. The album was first released in Japan on September 7, 2011. The limited edition package came with the Pal198X, a mini analog synthesizer created by Palomo and the company Bleep Labs. With three oscillators, including two triangle waves and a square low-frequency oscillator, it is a modified version of the company's synth kit Pico Paso, with the addition of swappable controls. Era Extraña was the first Neon Indian album to appear on the US Billboard 200, reaching position 74. It also charted on the same magazine's Independent Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Dance/Electronic Albums and Top Rock Albums. Outside the US, the album also charted on the Japanese Albums Oricon chart. A 42-date North American tour for Era Extraña was announced on December 6, 2011. It premiered on December 31 at the Lights All Night festival in Dallas, Texas, and ended with a show at New York City's Terminal 5 on May 12, 2012. Reception Era Extraña was met with 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 76, based on 27 reviews. Based on their assessment of the critical consensus, it was given 7.2 out of 10 on AnyDecentMusic?. Some reviewers praised Era Extraña for being more focused, tight, and cohesive than Psychic Chasms. Phares said that while it does not have the same homespun