Welcome back to Almost Famous, where we select one lucky Uncensored Interviewee who we deem to be on the verge of spreading beyond our illustrious tastemaking boundaries and taking over the cultural zeitgeist at large in the coming months.
Last time, we rang in the New Year with buzzworthy etherealists School Of Seven Bells, and this time we make our way to the world’s greatest metropolis.
Primarily known for Caroline Polachek’s distinctive woo-hoo-ing on a recent iPod TV ad (a hot-button issue these days thanks to the latest groundbreaking iTunes news), the Brooklyn-based, electronic pop three-piece, Chairlift, will soon be having Columbia Records (the label that just signed the act) doing a little woo-hoo-ing themselves.
The group, which also includes Aaron Pfenning and Patrick Wimberly (who cheekily accepted the Almost Famous honors on behalf of the group by declaring, “The cover of Rolling Stone. Crazy.”) gently separates themselves from other equally keyboard-y acts by with a distinctly organic sound. “Bruises,” their catchy iPod-popularized song from their Kanine debut, Does You Inspire You?, tells the tale of someone who does handstands until she’s black and blue, just to please another.
So you might say, just as Boy George and Culture Club once promised the then MTV-dominated music world, Chairlift wants to tumble for ya. (Ah, but without all the bad makeup, of course.)
Nice post on the ipod range, thanks, very informative.