Chairlift
- Chairlift
- Upcoming gigs: 1
- Genres: indie, electronic, pop, female vocalists, indie pop
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About Chairlift
Chairlift is an electropop band which formed in 2005 in Boulder, Colorado, United States. The band consists of Caroline Polachek (vocals, keyboards) and Patrick Wimberly (bass, drums). The third founding member, Aaron Pfenning (guitar, synths, vocals), left the band in 2010. The band formed in Boulder, Colorado in early 2006 to make live music for haunted houses. Frequenting the Broker Inn on the edge of town for empty late-night jazz shows, Polachek...
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.
