Moth

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AlbumJan 22 / 201610 songs, 40m 47s
Synthpop Alt-Pop
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Very quietly, Brooklyn duo Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly continue to craft superior whip-smart pop. Their third album is tremendous: you could eat your dinner off the pristine production and its freewheeling, rhythmic songs dart mischievously around endlessly inventive melodic corners. The poised, scintillating “Ch-Ching” is the obvious centrepiece and “Romeo” surges by in a thrilling electro blur, but it’s the more dialled-back work that impacts strongest. “Crying in Public” is a beautifully self-aware love letter to metropolitan heartbreak while closers “Unfinished Business” and “No Such Thing as Illusion” are glitchy, cinematic and completely wonderful.

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Chairlift's Moth is a glossy and odd record about being overwhelmed by love and sensation, and it is also the band's most song-for-song consistent release to date.

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The Brooklyn duo return to celebrate the joys of New York, revealing a more vulnerable side along the way.

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Chairlift have found themselves creating something far more barmy, bold and exhilarating.

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'Moth' by Chairlift, album review by Gregory Adams for Northern Transmissions. The full-length is now out on Columbia Records. The current single is "Romeo"

Chairlift’s latest puts them at the forefront of the Brooklyn genre-blender pack

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