Coming Soon: Chairlift

Chairlift @ Kung Fu Necktie (9/06)

At times Chairlift sounds like a Post Punk aerobic workout (“Bruises”), at times like Moz and Marr on a space station (“Somewhere Around Here”), and at times like a John Hughes prom spiked with absinthe (“Planet Health”). However, at their best and chicest they are making runway music for androgynous androids (“Le Flying Saucer Hat”). Their enchantingly postmodern debut LP (originally released on Kanine Records in 2008 and re-released by Columbia Records in 2009), Does You Inspire You, has the Williamsburg trio swimming through ambiguous and undiscovered galaxies of musicality, while also firmly rooted in an 80’s pop aesthetic. If you’re still intrigued, make sure to check out Chairlift at Kung Fu Necktie to see Dream Pop, wrapped in New Wave, shrouded in Sonny Chiba. Izzy Cihak