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

Been listening to this again and it just leaves me cold.
I need to get up to speed with the Shambhala thread as I am desperate for good new musics

I like most of the upbeat tracks on here, but there are plenty of duds weighing it down

'Crying In Public' is lovely, yeah. My one keeper from a thoroughly sub-par and cripplingly woeful LP.

"Moth" must be one of the most dire follow-ups to a great record in memory.

Yeah, they totally blew it with this one. I'll still be giving their next record a listen out of curiosity, but I'm hoping it'll be an improvement.

I thought this record was quite so-so on release but I've really come around to a lot of it.

i wouldn't say they entirely blew it! it's not an excellent album but it has some catchy stuff on it, and a little bit of resonant stuff.

her vocal mannerisms do really need to be either dialed down or changed up.

it's the incessant shifts b/t falsetto and natural voice that she does with such facility that she seems to want to do them on every verse.

It's not THAT bad?? I haven't gone back to it much though. I keep wanting to play certain tracks off it when I'm DJing or when I've got people round but each track has a slightly cringey moment that puts me off playing it to other people.

'No Such Thing As Illusion'

this song seems to kind of give the game away that they just weren't coming up with a lot of good songs so they made room for a tossed-off bit of 'ambient' filler.

as with everything there will be people who genuinely like it and why not.

There's a good EP hiding between the yodeling Sade moments.

Kind of miss their more indie pop/rock tunes. Would've been a good substitute for the dull yodelers.

So they've broken up now. Hopefully this means more solo music from Caroline.

Surprising news, as I thought they may have another decent record like Something in 'em.

Caroline's got an instrumental solo album that's free to download here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/tci-assets/drawing-the-target-around-the-arrow.zip

http://pitchfork.com/features/interview/10065-finished-business-an-exit-interview-with-chairlift/

Funny that Ch-Ching was originally wrote for Beyonce. Maybe would've been less disastrous if she did it

I don't really like "Bruises" but "I Belong in Your Arms" is one of the best new wave revival songs I've ever heard. Has the same euphoric liquid feeling as somethibg like Blondie's "Atomic."

That might be hyperbolic because Atomic is one of the best songs of all time but this year I'm living without limits.

Every year since about 2006 has had its Heart of Glass/Atomic rip-off track, and I love them all. The Sprawl II; Cruel; this one... looking forward to this year's one

Sidewalk Safari is one of my favorite opening tracks. I like how they mined Art of Noise and Cocteaus on the same record. Shame about the follow up

man that final album is still such a disappointment. It's a startling failure

It certainly wasn't worth waiting four years for. I mean, it still amazes me that they had four years to work on Moth and it still turned out awful.

yeah, totally agree Turrican. The first track is a non-starter and the album feels like a mess of experiments that went wrong with the exception of "Crying in public".

watching live videos from the last tour, they seemed like they were having far more fun than this diluted album suggested

haven't heard the full album but c'mon now "moth to the flame" is great

4 years? really? didn't feel like a particularly long time between Something and Moth but apparently so. Something is definitely a classic album though

Yeah, it was really four years, although there was that Polachek solo record in between.

Solo record was much better than the last Charlift. Seems like it may have influenced the way their final album sounded, especially "Ottawa to Osaka"...in a bad way.

this is certainly a choice!

https://www.stereogum.com/1974416/caroline-polachek-pulls-out-of-moogfest-over-lineup-announcement/news/

i support this. she doesn't want to be enlisted in political grandstanding without her consent.

someone at MOOGfest should have been conscientious enough to consider giving the artists a heads-up that this was how the lineup was getting rolled out, but I think Polachek could have handled this a little more professionally too. it's of course her choice if she doesn't want to play but it's still sad to see this kind of discord from two parties that ostensibly are pretty simpatico in their view of the world.

There's no question that the tweet is tokenistic as hell, but outright bailing seems like an extreme response to me idk xp

"political grandstanding" seems like a bordering-on-bad-faith reading of this. I'm just looking at the tweet though, i don't know if there was more to the announcement or not.

whether it is a worthy cause or not they didn't consult the artists as to whether they were OK with being enlisted in it

caroline polachek doesn't have to be a gender activist if she doesn't want to

Support Caroline on this one!

I have a lot of memories of friends experiencing a very particular kind of conflicted doubt when they get invited to all-female festivals. I can only imagine all those feelings compressed into a shock when learning about it after signing up. moogfest & emmy parker are definitely not grandstanding though, and I liked their response

the CEP solo album has a balance to it, the way her melodies give way after the opening pieces to longform sinewave textures. like hiroshi yoshimura & eliane radigue on the same bus. sounds great loud.

It does strike me as about 40 years too late to curate electronic music festivals around gender. Among musical genres, academic/experimental electronic composition has been the most friendly to female composers, and the most eager to fete female pioneers, at least since I first started paying attention in the 80s.

Milton - that polachek solo album is great!

She sounded strong vocalizing with John Cale recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

yeah I'm usually surprised at people not having heard her solo album -- it's way better than the last chairlift record

"From Ottawa to Osaka" sounds like a textural nod to her solo record; but the last chairlift record is so uneven it's probably for the best they split so they can both focus on their own projects.

'Amanaemonesia' just popped up on shuffle play and blew me away all over again. I still can't believe how much of a step forward Something was from their debut, and even moreso how they went completely to shit afterwards.

Definitely one of the best singles in the respective year. Follow up was super patchy, some songs felt like they may have fit better on Caroline’s solo record, which was very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w6R4I7I3wA

absolutely phenomenal imo

beautiful song

song & video are both incredible, very excited for this record. was a little worried that she said in this interview that Danny L Harle co-produced 2/3rds of the record but he was apparently involved on "Door" so it should be fine

Wow, I'm blown away by this. Agree that video is just as incredible as the song. Suddenly very excited for her album now.