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.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 8 September 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
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.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 8 September 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
'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.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 8 September 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
There's a good EP hiding between the yodeling Sade moments.
― gesticulating Pez dispenser (Sanpaku), Sunday, 11 September 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
Kind of miss their more indie pop/rock tunes. Would've been a good substitute for the dull yodelers.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 11 September 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
So they've broken up now. Hopefully this means more solo music from Caroline.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 16 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
Surprising news, as I thought they may have another decent record like Something in 'em.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Friday, 16 December 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
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
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 19 January 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/features/interview/10065-finished-business-an-exit-interview-with-chairlift/
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 21 April 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Funny that Ch-Ching was originally wrote for Beyonce. Maybe would've been less disastrous if she did it
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 21 April 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
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."
― Treeship, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
That might be hyperbolic because Atomic is one of the best songs of all time but this year I'm living without limits.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
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
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
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
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 01:02 (six years ago) link
man that final album is still such a disappointment. It's a startling failure
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 06:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 25 September 2017 06:40 (six years ago) link
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".
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 06:54 (six years ago) link
watching live videos from the last tour, they seemed like they were having far more fun than this diluted album suggested
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 07:00 (six years ago) link
haven't heard the full album but c'mon now "moth to the flame" is great
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 25 September 2017 07:22 (six years ago) link
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
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2017 07:53 (six years ago) link
Yeah, it was really four years, although there was that Polachek solo record in between.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Monday, 25 September 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 25 September 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
this is certainly a choice!
https://www.stereogum.com/1974416/caroline-polachek-pulls-out-of-moogfest-over-lineup-announcement/news/
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
i support this. she doesn't want to be enlisted in political grandstanding without her consent.
― treeship 2, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― evol j, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
There's no question that the tweet is tokenistic as hell, but outright bailing seems like an extreme response to me idk xp
― Simon H., Friday, 8 December 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
"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.
― evol j, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
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
― treeship 2, Friday, 8 December 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
caroline polachek doesn't have to be a gender activist if she doesn't want to
Support Caroline on this one!
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 8 December 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
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.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 8 December 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
Milton - that polachek solo album is great!
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 8 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
She sounded strong vocalizing with John Cale recently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
yeah I'm usually surprised at people not having heard her solo album -- it's way better than the last chairlift record
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 8 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
"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.
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Friday, 8 December 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
'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.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 12 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― Abomination Street (Ross), Sunday, 12 August 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w6R4I7I3wA
absolutely phenomenal imo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
beautiful song
― monotony, Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 20 June 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
Wow, I'm blown away by this. Agree that video is just as incredible as the song. Suddenly very excited for her album now.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 20 June 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
It's a nice song, but there's a limit to how much I want to hear her in ballad mode. Generally prefer the upbeat tracks.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 20 June 2019 05:05 (four years ago) link
What struck me here is how much the vocal technique she (over)relies upon mimics overt autotune.
― despondently sipping tomato soup (Sanpaku), Saturday, 22 June 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
omg I love this
― Tim F, Sunday, 23 June 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
This is so good!
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Monday, 24 June 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
That last Chairlift album was underrated too.
True
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ku7o_25wUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HDrFxDVX8
two more tracks, nice but not stunning in the way that "door" was
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 05:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NTUY-jP47I
― ufo, Monday, 16 September 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link