★★★★★
'Ch-Ching' isn't exactly new music though, having featured in the duo's live sets since 2013. But hearing it in its studio form - rather than via crappy phone-filmed YouTube videos - is a shift in quality that is as eye-opening as the song's brightly-coloured video. The duo's Patrick Wimberly explains that the song is "an experiment in combinations that began by banging on my living room coffee table, layering drastically different grooves, and forcing them to work together.....
- www.completemusicupdate.com
2015-10-19
★★★★★
From Colorado via Brooklyn, New York is electronic pop duet Chairlift, and their newly released second album Something. Combining the sugar-sweetness of their debut album with some darker synthesised sounds, on initial listen Something can feel a little bland. However, on every multiple listen each song reveals a trait or quirk that makes it that bit more recognisable and attractive...
- www.beat.com.au
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Being in an Apple ad can be the kiss of death, especially with a song as whimsically catchy as "Bruises" from Chairlift's 2008 debut album, Does You Inspire You. To fend off sophomore stagnation, the Brooklyn duo returns with material that stays true to its trademark song structure but turns the musicality up considerably. A song like "Amanaemonesia" starts with a thin bassline bouncing to densely layered synths in the chorus...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Chairlift's Something takes a retro road frequently traveled these days, invoking spacey synth and steady beats primed for cardio training (legwarmers optional). That's true even in the album's moodier turns, like the excellent "Take It Out On Me," a ballad befitting a lovelorn montage in a 1980s teen flick. But compare this sophomore effort to 2008 debut Does You Inspire You and it's clear these Brooklynites have come a long way...
- filtermagazine.com
2012-02-13
★★★★★
You can really read someone's character in how they respond to life's little setbacks. You might have wondered how Chairlift's Caroline Polachek, the vestal virgin of 'Planet Health', the handstand-tumbling ingenue of 'Bruises' might weather the departure of her boyfriend and Chairlift co-founder Aaron Pfenning before the writing of their second album. Would she weep? Would she crumble...
- thequietus.com
2012-02-09
★★★★★
Chairlift's 2008 debut Does You Inspire You was a proper contrary. On one hand it delivered some of the most luxurious, artful pop of the age and on the other some baffling "Is that the time? Must dash, I've left a knife in the fork drawer" calamity. Poor listeners didn't know which way to turn. It was a confusing time for pop and for humanity...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-02-02
★★★★★
There are quite a few one-off ways to be familiar with Chairlift--those kids with the cheery single from that iPod commercial way back, or that Williamsburg band who wanted to make music for haunted houses (how utterly hip). That up-tempo, tad-spacey group who seemed to be in hot pursuit of perfect pop, but left a pretty sizable gap between their successful debut and sophomore effort...
- www.prefixmag.com
2012-02-02
★★★★★
It's been nearly four years since Chairlift scored modest crossover success, a major label deal and prime placement in an iPod commercial - recently enough to capitalize on name recognition but long enough ago to escape categorization as "that iPod band." That leaves a relatively clean slate for the Brooklyn electro-pop duo's sophomore album, on which they replace their earlier shifting identity with one firmly grounded in 80s revival...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2012-02-02
★★★★★
Caroline Polachek is getting better at Scrabble. On her synth-pop crews skeletal 2008 debut, Does You Inspire You, the singer-keyboardist was so proud of the songs hazy, unusually worded chorus -- "The most evident utensil / Is none other than a pencil" -- that the band risked a video budget, winning a VMA nomination for their datamoshing 4D clip...
- www.spin.com
2012-02-02
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