I’ve just spent the afternoon wallowing in an 80s haze after glutting myself on the new Chairlift album, Something. Ah, so good!

After their 2008 debut album Does You Inspire You, the Brooklyn-based duo (Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly) with a penchant for fresh fruit & veg (see pic above – actually, I have no idea if they are healthy eaters, but by Jove, they look pretty fit, don’t they?) have further perfected the art of making crisply polished electro-pop. Similar to St. Vincent’s vocal dexterity and range, and synth-y electric guitar, Chairlift manage to be both elegantly uplifting and charmingly poppy at the same time.

Something album sampler:

Chairlift play @ Abart, ZH, Sunday 26.02.12. Tix here.

Something is out now on Columbia Records/Young Turks.

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