Blog: Trust Me on This

Now that we're nearly three months into 2009, let me share some of the bands that I've been listening to while winter has been sliding into spring: I heard of Chairlift through the blogosphere as a result of the band's somewhat recent iPod commercial, which I have not actually seen. The band's electropop songs are built around Caroline Polachek's ethereal voice, sometimes contrasted with that of guitarist Aaron Pfenning. The lyrics are sometimes here and sometimes there; sometimes they hint at metonymy and sometimes the rhymes seem a bit contrived. In any case, the songs are [...]