A couple of days ago, I featured a solo artist that emerged from a previously posted band.
Today, I go in the other direction.
Before Caroline Polachek was a solo artist, she was in a band called Chairlift. Polachek founded the band with Aaron Pfenning in 2005, and they lasted more than a decade before breaking up in 2017.
This song, the second single from their 2012 album Something, is fun and sonically interesting. At this point, Pfenning had left the band, but early member Patrick Wimberly was still there. Polachek and Wimberly co-wrote this song, which has hints of an 80's sound (the band mentioned OMD and Art of Noise among the influences on this album).
There's a lot of record of the band performing the song live, but my favorites are the stripped down versions, like this one for Belgian radio, where it's just a guitar, keyboard, and voices.....
... or this duet version that even removes the keyboard. Polachek and Wimberly had a nice harmony that really pops here.
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