contribute anything new to electronic music. Some reviews were more mixed. The A.V. Club critic Steven Hyden wrote that while Era Extraña sounds "fuller" than Psychic Chasms and "still has plenty of hooks to offer", Palomo "has to take both feet out of the bedroom to move his music forward". He also compared it to another chillwave album that was released a few months before, Washed Out's Within and Without, saying, "Where Within is an immaculately conceived graduation from [Ernest] Greene's early lo-fi work, Extraña is a minor refinement that still feels chintzy in places." Beck and Robertson also discussed Washed Out, as well as Toro y Moi, dubbing the album an unfunny parody of chillwave and also criticizing it as "such a strong homage to everything that's cool about retro-chic that you can't help but smell a rat". At PopMatters, Wisnicki wrote that Era Extraña does not have the same quality tunes and aesthetic as Psychic Chasms, declaring that while each song on Psychic Chasms "felt like getting to open another piece of candy", Era Extraña "feels more like opening one of those refrigerated boxed sandwiches from the grocery store". On year-end lists, Era Extraña came in at number 50 on Under the Radar's list of their top 80 albums of 2011, and number 16 on Stereogums list. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of Era Extraña. Alan Palomo – production, arrangements, performer Dave Fridmann – additional production, mixing Claudius Mittendorfer – mixing Joshua McWhirter – guitars Adam Corbesmeyer – bass Jason Faries – percussion Jezy Gray – guitar Aaron Brown – album art Ben Chappell – album art Rob Carmichael – layout, design Charts Release history References 2011 albums Albums produced by Dave Fridmann Albums recorded at Tarbox Road Studios Mom + Pop Music albums Neon Indian albums