When it comes to my “New Music Monday” spots, I always try to go outside of the box with my choices on what artists to feature. Case in point, today.

According to NPR, Palomo would later go on to study film in college and thus begins the interesting part of this story. It was at college that Palomo began to take music seriously, but did so through the perspective of his other passion: film. Palomo explained to NPR that “It just made sense to speak about music in terms of film scenes and movies. And to some extent, it’s kind of become the ethos of what Neon Indian is — to create these isolated aesthetic statements, and treat them like their own films.” Man, I love this quote because it should be true for all music. Music, to me, is like a film. An album a full length feature, with each song being a scene or a collection of short films. Each with its own set of “aesthetic statements” as Palomo said. That’s what makes music art.