Chairlift - Does You Inspire You reviews
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| http://www.nme.com/reviews/keane/9963 |
 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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| Spin |
| In 2007, Chairlift moved from Colorado to Brooklyn to pursue a strangely common 21st-century dream -- to create a thoroughly modern indie-pop album inspired by '80s synth-goth kitsch. The result is the trio's startlingly impressive debut: astute, melodic evocations of plinky new wave ("Bruises," "Evident Utensil") and the Cocteau Twins' smeary dreams ("Planet Health") that achieve a timeless emotional resonance. The lyrics can be ungainly ("The most evident utensil is none other than a pencil"? Really?), but when Caroline Polachek's exquisite vocals pierce the fog belt of keyboards and rumbling bass on "Home Alone" and "Make Your Mind Up," the future starts to come into focus....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| Hailing from Boulder, Colorado via Brooklyn, synth-pop trio Chairlift started out with the goal of making "live music for haunted houses" and there are plenty of spacey squeals and creaks on display throughout "Garbage," the opening track of their full-length debut, Does You Inspire You—which hits shelves three days before Halloween. The song, however, ultimately aims for more broadly based scare tactics, as its lyrics read like an ecological public service announcement with an even more frightening built-in metaphor for the emotional damage one leaves behind: "All the garbage that you have thrown away…Your condoms and your VCR/Your Ziploc bags and your father's car…All of your garbage will outlive you one day." The album's centerpiece comes early: Accentuated with the sound of chirping birds and Asian flourishes, "Planet Health" boasts a reverb-y drum-machine loop and squelchy bassline reminiscent of early-'80s synth-pop pioneers like Eurythmics and Grace Jones (with singer Caroline Polachek on the mic, Chairlift is what PJ Harvey might have sounded like had she started making music a decade earlier). Chairlift can best be described as eccentric or quirky (the primary thrust of "Somewhere Around Here" is that "somewhere around here…there are witches"), but "Planet Health" is fascinating in how it posits health class as some kind of Shangri-La, with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and the Heimlich maneuver likened to acts of affection. "Bruises," the latest in a long line of bouncy pop ditties to ingratiate themselves into our collective pop consciousness via an iPod commercial, proves that the band is capable of being poignant without taking themselves too seriously, but much of Does You Inspire You, like the ode to pencils "Evident Utensil," veers a little too far into silly territory to elevate the album above a well-made and well-performed oddity....full text |
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