Chairlift - Does You Inspire You reviews
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| Prefixmag |
 Chairlift is a band about occult flotation. The world Aaron Pfenning, Patrick Wimberley and Caroline Polachek occupy revolves at a different pace and has a different sense of gravity than ours. They want to give us visions of this other world that simultaneously works within and on top of our own. Of course, behind every Chairlift is some ingenious mechanism of showmanship. Behind our world is just our world again -- made a little different. Friends of MGMT and Yeasayer, the members of Chairlift in their latest album, Does You Inspire You, are another band that self-consciously reconstructs a variety of past forms in order to create new pop music that simultaneously satisfies and mystifies....full text |
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| Pitchforkmedia |
Chairlift's "Bruises", the most immediately catchy and memorable song on the band's debut Does You Inspire You, directly suggests its own video treatment. Imagine: an impossibly cute and dying-to-please young girl sets a camera on a tripod in her backyard and does a series of well-intentioned, but ultimately failed tumbling moves to prove her adoration of a significant other. It's almost enough to trump the fact that Apple recently licensed the song for an ad and made their own associations with it, namely a line of Nanos bleeding brightly colored paint. Not quite as cute, but if we use former Pitchfork contributor Nick Sylvester's metric for Apple's aims with ad music-- that it should sound close enough to a familiar iconic song but come at a much cheaper price-- "Bruises" works perfectly. At a time when most of us can still summon "Young Folks" and (the famously iPodded) "1234" from memory, and "Bruises"-- a whiff of soul, but a stronger aroma of feminine allure mixed with little-girl naïvete-- is a more than obvious choice.
Inspire can't match the precious glee of "Bruises" over its uneven length, but the trio tries from different angles, toying with several other ideas. They live in Brooklyn and are touring with Yeasayer, so if you guessed "thick, vaguely Far-Eastern new age haze" is one of their schticks, you're not too far off. It's put to best use on album-opening "Garbage", which sounds like nothing else right now, musically or ideologically. Over an oddly retro-futuristic palette, something like the synth-jazz theme song to a kitschy 1970s detective drama, Caroline Polachek laments the ever-increasing mountains of post-consumer detritus (VCRs, condoms and the like) like she feverishly wrote the lyrics on the way home from WALL-E....full text |
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| Nme |
Fuck you, Brooklyn, and your faultless DIY art-pop scene. You’re probably sick of having your dick sucked these days, aren’t you? Well lie back and think of Obama, because it’s happening again.
Chairlift are the latest group to arrive from NYC and, like Mirror Mirror or Effi Briest, look more like a cult. They may dress like idiots but everything that’s wrong with this band begins and ends with the kaftans. What’s extraordinary about Chairlift is the uninhibited nature of their ambition. From folk to trip-hop to power pop, each song on this record fizzes with lyrical complexity and glowing production values. Unlike Vampire Weekend or MGMT there’s been no hype machine behind them; one day they just turned up as a grand proposition – not an art band to perch on the fringes, but a gossamer avant-garde group who might actually sell an album or two....full text |
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