Chairlift - Bruises (This year's "Heartbeats"/"Young Folks")

Its a charcoal sketchbook by a preternaturally talented but untutored artist. The production is thin, the sound patches preset, the lyrics vague when present. One only wonders whether a full set of oils and canvas would ruin the charm.

^ Posted in the wrong thread. I thought I was in the Grimes thread.

Band reminds me of an amuse-bouche

really enjoying the new album, especially with repeat plays. some quality infectious party-numbers stacked upfront ("sidewalk safari", "i belong in your arms", "take it out on me") and some delicate and unconventional, though no less pretty, stuff tailing it out. love the unique phrasing and spacey, almost alt-country leanings of "frigid springs" and the icy Victorialand-isms of "turning". there's a distinct Sincerely Yours vibe happening in parts and a whole lot of 80s obviously, but i'm finding the package as a whole quite original and refreshing.

It's so much better than that first album. Can't believe it's the same band TBH.

Just saw them live. Fantastic show. Caroline is adorable.

I still love this album.

"I Belong in Your Arms" is year end top five for sure. Love that bass line.

Great song. The ones that I keep coming back to the most are 'Wrong Opinion', 'Amanaemonesia' and especially 'Met Before'.

Hopefully gonna see them in SF

Very likeable live band if last night at the Scala is anything to go by. They seemed to amp up the 80s-ness even more than on the album and de-tweed Bruises a little - by swapping out the strawberries verse for one from Melt With You - which fit better with stuff from the new album.

"i belong in your arms" is a monster of a song, have had it on repeat all day

I STILL love this album.

Top ten single

I STILL love this album.

I need to bust this out some more. Discovered it through the EOY poll results (which I'm still processing, really) and thought it was a big standout.

This, the Wild Nothing record (Nocturne) and the School Of Seven Bells album are all still getting regularly played here!

The kind of album where you think 'yeah I like a couple of songs on that' until you play it all the way through and there are maybe two short moments where it's slightly less than excellent.

And I've been really enjoying Poliça for similar reasons recently too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eghzhlbv6Cc

New solo project from Caroline Polachek by the name Ramona Lisa. This song doesn't really go anywhere, but something else from the upcoming record might not suck.

Interesting... I thought Chairlift were in the studio last year?

It's nice to see Julia Holter's influence at work.

I think there should be a new chairlift album soon too. But Caroline's been busy, she's done collaborations with blood orange and wrote "no angel", amongst other things.

Caroline's solo album under name of 'Ramona Lisa' is available to stream on Soundcloud

Was listening to SOMETHING today and was reminded of how a friend of mine got really into Chairlift b/c they reminded him of Tears for Fears

btw my favorite track from the Caroline solo album is probably

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHawd3Dlpyo

Caroline's solo album under name of 'Ramona Lisa' is available to stream on Soundcloud

― kinder, Saturday, April 26, 2014 11:08 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man did nobody care about this at all?

i kind of forgot about them.

"Backwards and Upwards" is the track to recommend to Ned/DJP-types.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYXTmJI8drU

I never heard the ramona lisa album b/c I heard that it was a more experimental work and presumed it was just Caroline trying out ideas rather than essential listening. I'm hoping a new Chairlift album materialises soon.

"No Angel" still one of the best songs of the past 12 months imo

I never heard the ramona lisa album b/c I heard that it was a more experimental work and presumed it was just Caroline trying out ideas rather than essential listening.

yeah that is probably true tbh

i mean still worth a listen if you like her/chairlift but decidedly non-essential

Couple of great tracks iirc, the rest not so much. Must re-visit...

She just announced on Twitter that it's available for free download for the next 2 weeks:
https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/ramonalisa

i'm a bit surprised by the mild response to the ramona lisa album, i've been very into it this week. i think she creates a very interesting vibe with the midi instrumentation, somehow both thin and warm.

also there's this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd1o8Jlhjqo

nor sure that adds much to the original (which is extraordinary)

https://twitter.com/Chairlifted/status/652516680212594688

About fucking time!

I was just listening to Something this morning, too - it's still as good as ever.

Re: the sound clip on that Twitter post - I'm hoping there's at least going to be a decent song at the end of that. The melody seems a bit 'Inspector Gadget' to me for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4RIeKLsHFk

live version of the single - i expect the studio version will sound better but it's pretty far from I Belong In Your Arms or Amanaemonesia

sounds alright. worth bearing in mind also that that video is more than 2 years old - song could've changed plenty in that time

Yeah, I mean I'd be lying if I said I was impressed by what I'm hearing here, but I'm going to wait until I hear the proper fleshed-out studio version, and indeed the album when it comes out before I start forming definite opinions. Part of me is hoping that this is going to be a "red herring" type of first single.

So, the studio version of the new single seems to be out there now...

i love it http://pitchfork.com/news/61631-chairlift-return-with-new-song-ch-ching/

sounds like something she wrote for bey

Not feelin dis.

Yeah, neither am I. Again, I'm hoping that this is a bit of a "red herring" first single and that the rest of the album is much better. My expectations for this have pretty much been lowered.

some of it is nice but I don't really know what they were going for with the sax, it just feels weak. album is 'Moth' out in January

Well, the full video is out there now, and I guess the video is alright but... Jesus tittyfucking Christ am I completely, totally and utterly underwhelmed by this new single. I'm not against acts doing or trying something different, but what I don't like is when they completely remove everything that I liked about them in the first place. I'm really, really hoping that this track isn't representative of Moth as a whole, because if it is then I'm at least one fan of their previous work that will jump ship. Thank God for acts like Chvrches that do it properly and release a follow-up album that's a logical progression to their previous one rather than going down the "but we want all our albums to be radically different" route. I used to enjoy it when bands used to perversely make radically different, totally batshit and illogical follow-ups to their previous albums, but now I just find it a fucking pain in the arse.

Anyway, 'Ch-Ching' basically, to me, sounds like a novelty song, in a way that 'Bruises' kinda felt like a novelty song (but much more so) and in a way that pretty much every track from Something didn't. I don't want to be partying like it's 1994 here and crying "FUCKING SELLOUTS!" or anything, because that would be silly - there's always been a pop element to everything that Chairlift have ever done, however there's something about this song which makes me feel like they were kinda aiming for a hit here. Whether it'll actually be one, who knows? But if it does somehow manage to become a hit, it'll become a hit due to its total banality.

'Sidewalk Safari' and 'Amanaemonesia' were great not just because they had the pop hooks and some great synth sounds, but they had a quirk to them which, to me, was interesting. 'Ch-Ching' sounds like empty, dull, pandering wank by comparison.

It pains me to have to write all this, because to say that I was looking forward to a new Chairlift record was an understatement. Something still remains one of my most loved, and most played albums to be released so far this decade and now I'm suddenly finding myself in the position where I'm already beginning to feel like it's the end of the line for me and this band. I hope when the album comes out that I'm proven wrong, but expectations have definitely been considerably lowered.

Maybe their second album was an anomaly, because I felt similarly ¯\(ツ)/¯ about their first album as well.

Ooh I like this one. The b-section was unexpected, deflating the build, but then that wonderful coda pays off that tension later. Love the production

Yeah second time listening to these and loving the 90’d vibe

*this

ooh this is great