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Amanaemonesia

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Released: Aug 23, 2011

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Amanaemonesia
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Peculiar Paradise
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Sidewalk Safari (Sampha Remix)
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Planet Health (Album Version)
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Genre: Flamenco / Industrial / Japanese Classic Music
Location Brooklyn, Un
Profile Views: 2861084
Last Login: 2/7/2012
Member Since 3/21/2006
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNoYWlybGlmdGVkLmNvbS8=
Record Label Columbia
Type of Label Major
Bio
Chairlift is Caroline Please (melody) and Patrick What (rhythm). Chairlift's songs pivot around a hazily romantic, fragmented, psychedelic sense of humor and love for pop music. After touring their first record, Does You Inspire You (2008), the band retreated into the a spare room of an antique shop for a year to produce their upcoming album, which is currently being debuted in live-band form throughout the spring/summer of 2011. New work from Chairlift incluides gothic pastorals, pizza punk, infomercial spirituals, road-rage surf, and faux-jazz sulk. - - - - Management: Molly Hawkins - molly@theyoungturks.co.uk US Booking: SAM@WINDISHAGENCY.COM EURO Booking: paul@CodaAgency.com US Press: DANA@230publicity.com
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Caroline Please Patrick What
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Chasing the rabbit
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Management contact: Molly Hawkins - molly@theyoungturks.co.uk

PRESS US - Dana Erickson - dana@230publicity.com
UK - Adrian Read - adrian@insideslashout.com
Intn'l: Jordan Wolosky - Jordan.Wolosky@sonymusic.com

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North America, South America, Australia, Asia: Sam Hunt - sam@windishagency.com
Europe/UK: Paul Buck - paul@CodaAgency.com

Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly made Something, their sophomore record, over 18 months between the back of an antique store in Brooklyn and the basement of a family home in Streatham, London. The world and characters of Something, slowly emerged- overtones of manic revenge contrast with a dark brooding guilt (“Sidewalk Safari”, “Amanaemonesia”, “Take it out on Me”, “Guilty as Charged”); pastoral, almost psychedelic love meets its own inevitable, blue future (“Met Before”, “Frigid Spring”, “Turning”, “Cool as a Fire”). In contrast to Chairlift’s debut album’s Does you Inspire You pop-dreamscape, created in the dark, after school and work, the band uncovered the songs on Something in the daytime, drinking coffee. Producer Dan Carey’s studio is part of the world of Something, full of giant plate-reverb boxes, mint green reel-to-reels salvaged from dismantled BBC studios, plastic human heads which are used to record and simulate the listeners location in approximation to the sound. The head was sitting in the back seat of Carey’s car, a microphone on each ear, while Caroline drove, screaming the “I’m gonna hunt you down… I’m gonna run you down” lyric of “Sidewalk Safari”. Perhaps this incident lends itself to the fact that Something recalls the anthemic driving albums of the mid-90’s (Weezer’s ‘Blue’ album comes to mind). Larry Fitzmaurice (Pitchfork) says that ”...Chairlift go for ‘big’ – like, really big – and succeed on every level”.