Chairlift Gigs, Reviews, News, Images & Bio

Chairlift

Gigs, Reviews, News, Image Gallery & Bio

Genre: Rock/Pop

Amidst the revival of psychedelic music in the New York underground, Chairlift has chosen to work closely with musical associations within their own generation, shifting between pop-art jingles, synthesizer-heavy film soundtracks, and DIY basement beats to project an organic portrait of the young blood raised on Lite-Brites, riding the transition from analog to digital.

Chairlift formed in 2006 in Boulder, CO within the indie-folk scene. The trio is comprised of Caroline Polachek, art student, Aaron Pfenning, film student, and Patrick Wimberly, jazz student. The relocation of the band to New York has demanded deeper consideration of the polarities between honesty and irony, strange and familiar, modern and vintage, and anonymity and communion.

LMFM says...

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY (by way of Boulder, CO, where the trio originally came together in 2006), the avant-pop outfit Chairlift formed for the unusual purpose of crafting music for haunted houses. Finding that their work transcended its original purpose, bandmates Aaron Pfenning, Caroline Polachek, and Patrick Wimberly pulled up stakes and headed east, settling in that most musical of locales -- not to mention one always looking for new and unique ideas -- New York City. Chairlift soon made a name for itself during the band's first two years in the Big Apple, playing shows with similar up-and-comers like MGMT, Yeasayer, and Mixel Pixel while inking a contract with the independent label Kanine. Chairlift's first release on the label, a single entitled "Evident Utensil," featured a remix by the aforementioned MGMT, and was a precursor to the group's debut full-length release. Released in 2008, Does You Inspire You molded the band's space rock influences with a poppy indie aesthetic; the album also received an extra promotional boost when "Bruises" appeared in an iPod commercial.